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5:00 AM ET, September 20, 2023

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Angela Fu / Poynter:
A Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter and her colleagues faced social media attacks when users, including Elon Musk, distorted her coverage of a fatal hit-and-run  —  The Las Vegas Review-Journal is facing a harassment campaign stoked by Elon Musk, one year after a reporter was killed for his coverage.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
WBD plans to add a Max live sports tier, Bleacher Report Sports, in the US on October 5 for $9.99/month, or free for current subscribers until February 29, 2024  —  Max, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, is adding a live sports tier in the US on October 5th.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Radio Times, started 100 years ago as the BBC's “official organ”, remains “highly profitable”; the magazine also offers a website, an app, and a weekly podcast  —  One hundred years on, the Radio Times print magazine continues to be the highly profitable “mothership” …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky calls on the UK government to tackle regulatory red tape that threatens to stifle the creative sector, ahead of a planned government review of TV trends  —  Broadcaster says ‘significant amounts’ of resources deal with regulatory requirements  —  UK-based broadcaster Sky has called …
Axios:
Filing: Disney plans to spend ~$60B in the next 10 years on its parks and cruise line segments, nearly doubling the investment it has made over the past decade  —  Disney plans to nearly double its investments in its popular theme parks and cruise line, the company said in a securities filing Tuesday.
Patrick Brzeski / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount plans to launch Paramount+ in Japan on December 1 as a free-of-charge addition to the on-demand services of local operators J:COM and Wowow  —  The deal will give Japanese subscribers to J:COM and Wowow access to Paramount+ content as a free-of-charge add-on.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Matthew Panzarino, who recently stepped down as TechCrunch EIC after 10 years, on the site's Silicon Valley relationship, the future of media, and more  —  It's been a rocky and chaotic decade — and now digital media is on the brink of yet another existential crisis thanks to generative AI.
Gretel Kahn / Reuters Institute:
How Russia spreads pro-Kremlin messages in Africa through local journalists and media outlets like Afrique Média, a Cameroon-based, pro-Wagner Group TV channel  —  This Cameroon-based outlet reaches millions through linear TV and boasts over one million followers on their social channels
Discussion: GitHub
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Highlights from three years of Platformer: from <75K free subscribers to 155,355 in a year, plans to experiment with ads, ~95% of readers do not pay, and more  —  Has the Substack revolution come and gone?  PLUS: What's changing in year four  —  I. State of the union
 
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Bobby Hristova / CBC News:
The Hamilton Spectator, one of Ontario's longest-running newspapers, plans to close its office in October; last week, Torstar's owner Nordstar cut 605 staff
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Filing: Alibaba Pictures plans to acquire Alibaba-owned Damai, a major provider of live entertainment in China, for $167M, signaling a move into live events
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
BBC Studios forms a Global Entertainment division, led by Matt Forde, to oversee its production bases in Los Angeles, India, Australia, South Africa, and Europe
Discussion: Media Play News
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Electrify Video Partners, whose model is to acquire 50% to 100% of a YouTube creator's business, raised $85M from Capital D and says the startup is profitable
Discussion: Tubefilter
 Earlier Picks: 
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC and Channel 4 remove TV and audio shows featuring Russell Brand; the BBC did not say which shows while Channel 4 removed GBBO and Big Brother episodes
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with The Independent CEO Christian Broughton on the newspaper's growth drivers: e-commerce, Independent TV, reader revenues, US expansion, and AI
Yoel Roth / New York Times:
Twitter's former head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump and Elon Musk attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, the Twitter Files, and more
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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