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4:15 PM ET, November 16, 2022

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amid an advertising downturn and lower linear viewership, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and other networks are asking staff to trim costs, find savings, and more  —  As CNN, ABC News and others grapple with an advertising downturn and lower linear viewership, the new mandate is to trim costs …
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Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS entertainment chief Kelly Kahl to step down after 26 years with the company as part of a “restructuring and streamlining of leadership” at CBS Entertainment  —  The entertainment president is out as part of a “streamlining of leadership” at the company.  —  Another broadcast network president is out.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Meta reminds Facebook fact-checking partners that “political speech is ineligible for fact-checking”, ahead of Trump's announcement of a 2024 run for president  —  Facebook's fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running …
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
A Writers' Guild of Great Britain survey finds 55% of 250+ writers say that rising energy and food costs are impacting their ability to sustain a writing career
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Peter White / Deadline:
Apple's Major League Soccer Season Pass will launch on February 1, costing $15/month or $99/season, and $13/month or $79/season for Apple TV+ subscribers  —  Apple has unveiled more plans for its launch of Major League Soccer (MLS).  —  The streamer has revealed the pricing and launch details …
Jez Walters / What's New in Publishing:
An interview with The Washington Post's Chief Revenue Officer Joy Robins on raising subscription prices, micropayments, the ad market in 2023, and more  —  Now in her third year at The Washington Post, following five years at Quartz, Joy Robins oversees a team of more than 300 staff covering advertising …
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
About 45 Mastodon servers out of ~12,000 block journa.host, a server for journalists, as users migrate with Twitter habits like “mining social media for fodder”  —  Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users …
Zoe Samios / Sydney Morning Herald:
The Australian EIC Chris Dore is stepping down after four years to deal with a health issue and undergo surgery; the newspaper will be edited by Michelle Gunn  —  Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size  —  The editor-in-chief of News Corp's national masthead The Australian …
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Claire Woodcock / VICE:
Some public libraries in the US and Canada are using open-source software MUSICat to offer their own music streaming services and boost their local music scenes  —  It's not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor.  —  Claire Woodcock
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
NBC suspends Today show correspondent Miguel Almaguer after retracting his reporting that stoked right-wing conspiracy theories about the assault on Paul Pelosi  —  This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media.
Jeff Kotuby / The Streamable:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says the company will be “very disciplined” when its NBA contract expires after the 2024-2025 season: “We don't have to have the NBA”  —  In less than one year as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav has made some “interesting” comments …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says the ad market is weaker than in 2020 and that HBO went from making $2B+ in 2019 to losing ~$3B in 2021 as content spending surged
 
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