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5:00 PM ET, October 4, 2023

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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.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Wall Street and music industry analysts generally see Spotify's move into audiobooks as a good opportunity for the company to increase profit margins  —  An Evercore ISI analyst expects the effort to be a higher margin business than its music offerings, while a Morgan Stanley expert highlighted …
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 …
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.
Discussion: @davidclinchnews and Fortune
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.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta rolls out generative AI features for advertisers, including to create backgrounds, expand images, and write versions of ad text based on the original copy  —  Meta announced today it's rolling out its first generative AI features for advertisers, allowing them to use AI to create backgrounds …
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 …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Canva unveils AI tools to automate labor-intensive tasks, and plans to pay out $200M over three years to designers who let their work be used to train AI models  —  As part of its 10th birthday celebrations, web-based design platform Canva is releasing Magic Studio — a new suite …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
WBD hikes the monthly price of Discovery+ without ads in the US from $6.99 to $8.99 and in Canada from CA$6.99 to CA$8.99; the US ad tier remains at $4.99/month  —  It's the first time Discovery+ has increased the price of a monthly subscription in the markets since launching in January 2021.
 
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Patreon rolls out new features for creators and fans, like a new visual brand identity, a revamped mobile app, an updated home feed, and free membership tiers
Nicholas Casey / New York Times:
A look at Monitor Michoacán, a Mexican news outlet that closed after two of its journalists reporting on drug violence and government corruption were murdered
Samanth Subramanian / The Guardian:
A profile of Michael Lewis, as he talks about his new book, Going Infinite, why he considers SBF to be essentially genuine, The Blind Side controversy, and more
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount is considering scrapping its plans to launch Paramount+ in India in 2023 in favor of selling more programming to its partner JioCinema
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
A profile of Jimmy Lai, the owner of now closed Apple Daily and one of Hong Kong's most outspoken pro-democracy activists, as he marks 1,000 days in prison
Discussion: New York Times
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