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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Analytics firm Guideline: X's monthly US ad revenue has declined 55%+ YoY in each of the 10 months after Elon Musk's October 2022 takeover through August 2023 — Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought …
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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
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Wall Street Journal:
How advertisers are responding to X's Community Notes, which is impacting political ads and the trust of major brands, including Apple, Samsung, and Uber — Major brands including Apple and Samsung have had critical notes attached to ads. Political advertisers have raised concerns about the tool heading into campaign season.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
EIC Emma Tucker makes speedy Wall Street Journal changes: 15+ veteran editors and writers have left in recent months, and she ousted the chief enterprise editor — Emma Tucker, the top editor, is moving away from some of the organization's traditions. — Last month, Emma Tucker …
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Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
NewsWhip: seven of the top 10 “news” articles with the most interactions on Facebook in September 2023 were published on the catholicfundamentalism.com domain — Read to the end for the garfarious anglerfish — This Is What Replaces News On Facebook
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Axios, @patrickdehahn, @chaykak, @ben@werd.social and Digiday
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A coalition of media outlets, including C-SPAN and the AP, seeks video and audio access to the courtroom for Donald Trump's election conspiracy trial in 2024 — A coalition of media outlets, including C-SPAN, CBS News, ABC News and CNN, are seeking some sort of video and audio access …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
How Reach uses WhatsApp Communities, where the outlet has a ~90% open rate across 80 groups, and Channels, which allow more people but notifications are opt-in — As Whatsapp rolls out a new service for publishers called Channels, Press Gazette found out how Reach is already driving millions …
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Facing a projected $391K year-end loss, the Society of Professional Journalists is working with the SPJ Foundation on a “reinvestment plan” to support the group — SPJ leaders say risks to the organization are overblown as the foundation has millions of dollars in reserves.
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Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing:
CNN's Jake Tapper and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron discuss Felicia Sonmez's Kobe Bryant tweet and the ongoing issues of journalists on social media — Jake Tapper talks to Marty Baron on Felicia Sonmez. (CNN.) … One of the biggest challenges for media organizations …
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Amanda Pampuro / Courthouse News Service:
Former Aspen Times EIC Andrew Travers sues Ogden for firing him after he published two management-shelved columns about an oligarch who had sued the newspaper — The Aspen Times promoted journalist Andrew Travers to editor-in-chief last June — then fired him after he published previously spiked columns …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Letterboxd's co-founders “have been prototyping” adding TV shows; their priority is to do so “without disrupting the experience” of users already rating movies — Matt Buchanan and Karl von Randow, the two movie mega-fans who started Letterboxd as a part-time labor of love …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: AT&T is exploring options for its 70% DirecTV stake, such as adding a new investor or 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
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