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2:15 AM ET, November 14, 2022

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
Source: Michael Lewis shadowed Sam Bankman-Fried for the past six months and CAA is pitching Lewis' yet-to-be-written book on FTX's collapse to Hollywood buyers  —  Author compares Sam Bankman-Fried, Binance's CZ to ‘Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader’ in email sent by CAA  —  In this issue:
Washington Post:
Internal note: Twitter temporarily disabled signing up for Twitter Blue to “help address impersonation issues” affecting brands, politicians, and celebrities  —  Twitter accounts impersonating celebrities and politicians spread on the site after the company rolled out paid check marks.
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Twitter marked a Mediaite article critical of Elon Musk as “potentially spammy” with an “unsafe” URL on November 11, but removed the warning the next morning  —  Twitter deemed a Mediaite article that is critical of the company's new owner Elon Musk as “potentially spammy” …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select brands and outlets, after a wave of impersonations, hoaxing, and other chaos by purchased blue checks  —  Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account …
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Sam Bankman-Fried invested in several nonprofit and for-profit newsrooms over the past year including Semafor, The Intercept, ProPublica, and Vox  —  The Bankman-Fried industrial complex is imploding, with massive turmoil brewing for the donor who was seen as the Democratic Party's next great hope.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: The Washington Post Managing Editor Steven Ginsberg is leaving the newspaper to run The Athletic; Ginsberg lost out on the job to Sally Buzbee in 2021  —  I grew up reading the New York Post, and have watched it transform itself into a national Republican outlet.
Discussion: @tomgara
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Affiliate fees and ads, which financed streaming efforts, are in secular decline as cable companies lose ~10% of customers yearly; TV ad sales fell 12% in 2020  —  We're doing a special edition because of the media bloodbath on Wall Street this week.  Investors are freaked out about the state …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
An interview with BBC News Digital Director Naja Nielsen on media distrust in the US, where the outlet reaches 50M per week, and doubling North American staff  —  BBC News believes it can be “an antidote” to disinformation and polarisation in the US news landscape.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Omnicom, one of the world's biggest ad firms, recommends its clients like Apple, PepsiCo, and others “pause activity on Twitter”, citing brand safety risk  —  Omnicom, one of the world's biggest ad firms, representing brands like McDonald's, Apple, and Pepsico …
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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
NBCUniversal Ad and Partnerships Chair Linda Yaccarino says “there is no surrogate for Twitter” and Elon Musk can learn advertising: “I think we can teach him”
Malcolm Harris / New York Magazine:
Parker Herren / Ad Age:
A letter from The Media Rating Council to its clients: the audit committee voted to continue the September 2021 suspension of Nielsen's accreditation status  —  An MRC audit committee voted on the status of the measurement behemoth  —  The Media Rating Council has voted to continue …
Discussion: @tvgrimreaper, Next TV and Variety
 
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Analysis: the top 50 US magazines' collective average circulation fell from 145M in H1 2021 to 133M in H1 2022; print subs fell 11% YoY, digital grew 28% YoY
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk is failing to convince people that Twitter is a town square, telling users what they can and can't say for a laugh and charging $8 for the privilege
Jason Del Rey / Vox:
How Amazon's shopping experience, saturated with ads, impacts sellers and consumers, as its 2022 ad revenue surpassed revenue from Prime and other subscriptions
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PBS NewsHour:
PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff announces plans to step down on December 30 and begin a two-year project on US political divisions
Louise Matsakis / Semafor:
TikTok quietly started testing its livestreaming e-commerce feature TikTok Shop in the US this week; source: TikTok invited select US businesses to participate
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times hires Axios national political reporter Jonathan Swan for its politics team, describing him as “a gifted, dogged, and high-impact reporter”
Margaret Sullivan / Media Maelstrom:
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post's former media critic, launches Media Maelstrom, a Substack newsletter about “what's wrong with the press and how to fix it”