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8:55 PM ET, October 4, 2023

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Bloomberg:
Sources: AT&T is exploring options for its 70% stake in DirecTV, including selling the stake and exiting the venture as early as August 2024  —  - Telecoms giant majority owns DirecTV with private equity TPG  — Declining pay-TV customer base has cut into AT&T's cash flow
Discussion: The Desk and Cord Cutters News
Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023  —  The platform formerly known as Twitter now only displays outside sites' featured images on its iPhone app
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Amazon is shutting down Amp, its live audio streaming app launched in March 2022 that let users act like DJs by playing music and talking alongside songs  —  The service launched in March 2022 following a frenzy around live-audio services during the pandemic.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Wall Street and music industry analysts see Spotify's move into audiobooks as an opportunity for the company to increase its profit margins and value for users  —  An Evercore ISI analyst expects the effort to be a higher margin business than its music offerings, while a Morgan Stanley expert highlighted …
Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Over 50 media and civil rights groups write US AG Merrick Garland, demanding transparency over the FBI's raid of Tim Burke's house and seizing his equipment  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  —  An FBI raid on the home newsroom of Florida journalist Tim Burke in May prompted over 50 organizations …
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
Cable news networks continue to hire politicians' relatives and former White House flacks as news anchors, breaking the most basic rules of ethical journalism  —  It's kind of impressive how long cable news has been openly corrupt.  —  When you work in the parts of the media where I have spent …
Anna Nemtsova / The Daily Beast:
The family of award-winning Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna says she has been missing since August 3, when she returned to Russian-occupied territory  —  Victoria Roshchyna has been missing since Aug. 3.  Her father told The Daily Beast that her family is desperate to find out where she is.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Fortune CEO and former EIC Alan Murray plans to step down at the end of April 2024; he became CEO in December 2018, after Chatchaval Jiaravanon acquired Fortune  —  Alan Murray, the chief executive officer of Fortune and its former editor in chief, is stepping down in six months.
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Dune's availability on both Netflix and Max illustrates a strategic shift by big media companies, which have been pushed by Wall Street to generate more revenue  —  Remember when Netflix's competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services?  That's so 2021.
Discussion: Screen Rant
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Messenger hires AI company Seekr to flag clickbait, bias, and more; reporters can get a score reflecting their political lean that is visible to readers  —  What counts as clickbait?  Merriam-Webster's definition is “something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click …
Ian Youngs / BBC:
GB News fires hosts Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson after concluding its internal investigations, and says its “investigation into Dan Wootton continues”  —  Laurence Fox has been sacked by GB News after an outcry about comments he made on air about a female journalist.
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada