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Wired:
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, a look at the hacktivism on both sides, including outside hackers defacing and DDoSing government websites and media outlets — Since the conflict escalated, hackers have targeted dozens of government websites and media outlets with defacements and DDoS attacks …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose — Today, after a long weekend of awful terrorist violence in Israel, let's talk about the shifting landscape for social networks amid …
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Katy Migiro / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Three Palestinian journalists have been killed while reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, shrapnel injured another, and two Palestinian photographers are missing
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Reuters, CNN, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, WAN-IFRA, TechCrunch, @m_medhaat, @pressfreedom, @treesey, @khalilkhatib90, @warmonitors, @sarah_hassan94, @daliahatuqa, @daliahatuqa, @gypsystrategy, @evanhill, The Desk, Committee to Protect …, The Messenger, CBS News, Associated Press and Adweek
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Source: as of about June 2023, Netflix's ad sales and ad-supported subscriber numbers were roughly half what the company initially projected internally for 2023 — Turning Netflix into an advertising goliath is proving tougher than the video-streaming giant expected.
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Digiday and The Streamable
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Washington Post is offering voluntary buyouts over the next few weeks, aiming to cut ~240 jobs out of 2,500 to offset digital subscription and ad challenges — The publication has struggled to grow subscriptions in recent years. — The Washington Post is cutting about 240 jobs across the company …
Lucia Moses / Insider:
Texas Monthly has 50 film and TV projects sold or in development based on its work, and projects that 10%, or ~$1M, of 2024 revenue will come from entertainment — - Texas Monthly has 50 film and TV projects sold or in development, half in the true crime genre, based on its journalism.
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@lmoses
Matt Grobar / Deadline:
Over 2,300 producers demand that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers drop the word “Producers”, which implies all producers are members — - Alexandra Pelosi's January 6th Doc ‘The Insurrectionist Next Door’ Unveils HBO Premiere Date, Trailer
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The Hollywood Reporter, The A.V. Club, The Wrap and Screen Rant
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Poland's TVN, owned by WBD, faces ongoing attacks from the state broadcaster and politicians, and pressure could rise after parliamentary elections this weekend — Every night in Poland, The News goes up against The Facts. The News (Wiadomości in Polish) is the newscast on TVP …
Gavin Bade / Politico:
A look at the stalled efforts to ban TikTok in the US as defense officials, who want an outright ban, clash with economic officials who back a compromise — The administration is throwing its weight behind a new bill after previous legislative and national security efforts faltered.
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TechCrunch, NewsNation, MediaPost, The Hill, The Verge and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sources: Mail on Sunday laid off four senior sports journalists, including Mike Richards and Rob Draper, leaving the newspaper without a dedicated sports editor — European Football Writer of the Year Rob Draper and BJA winner Nick Harris look set to leave.
Angela Fu / Poynter:
On Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day, 40+ unionized staff at Reviewed stage a one-day strike after the Gannett product reviews site didn't give them bargaining dates — Shopping holidays, like Amazon's Prime Days and Black Friday, are the product review site's biggest revenue drivers
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@reviewedunion, @nyguild, @reviewedunion and The NewsGuild
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Paramount Global and iSpot.tv partner to “measure and transact” national TV ad campaigns using iSpot metrics for Paramount's US media and streaming properties — Deepening more alternative-currency agreements among major TV network-based media companies, Paramount Global has struck …
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Adweek, Radio & Television … and Advanced Television
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: Condé Nast Entertainment President Agnes Chu is set to leave at the end of October in a reorganization combining editorial, branded content, and video — The executive joined the company from Disney in 2020. — Condé Nast is shaking up its video and editorial content structure …
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The Wrap, @annaknicolaou, The Information, Variety and MediaPost
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