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Asked about their coverage of the hospital blast in Gaza, the WSJ declines to comment, the AP and Al Jazeera ignore inquiries, Reuters and CNN admit no fault — Most news organizations seem eager to sweep last week's negligent coverage of the Gaza hospital explosion under the rug …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
The Israel-Hamas and Ukraine wars are fueling graphic videos online, reaching a global audience, sometimes as propaganda, and potentially causing more trauma — The Israel-Gaza and Ukraine wars have flooded the web with grisly content. One researcher says, 'It's like there are suddenly …
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@drewharwell.com and The Hill
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The entertainment industry grapples with the same debates over the Israel-Hamas war that are playing out on college campuses, in offices, and among friends
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Lauren Theisen / Defector:
The Messenger, which launched in May, appears to be speedrunning every stage of a VC-funded, ad-dependent media startup life, from VC darling to barren husk — Nobody can be surprised that The Messenger isn't living up to its grand promises. Before the news site launched …
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Naomi Forman-Katz / Pew Research Center:
Survey: US adults who say they follow the news all or most of the time fell from 51% in 2016 to 38% in 2022; in 2022, 19% said they follow the news now and then — Americans are following the news less closely than they were a few years ago, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
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Media Voices, MediaPost, @benjamintoff and Next TV
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Harvard professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright issues, TikTok, and more — After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok …
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Reason
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to update tvOS with a redesigned TV app around December and discontinue some of its Apple TV apps to steer more users toward the TV app — - Company envisions one place for customers to find video — Dedicated apps for buying movies and shows will be phased out
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@markgurman, The Verge, The Streamable, The Information, Engadget, Macworld, MacRumors and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Q3 ad revenue rose 12.5% YoY to $7.95B, vs. $7.81B est.; in Q3 2022, YouTube's ad revenue fell short of expectations after falling 1.9% — Internet video giant YouTube larded its coffers with $7.95 billion in ad revenue for third quarter of 2023, representing a 12.5% year-over-year increase …
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CNBC, Music Ally, @tookthescenicroute …, @economyapp, @stockmarketnerd, Alphabet Inc. and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
A dozen female former Rolling Stone employees describe Jann Wenner's office culture as “a dictatorship” with “palpable fear” and “a horrible place for women” — “The men were very angry all the time, and some of them would have full on fits—like, full-on toddler-like tantrums."
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers' tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data — A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online …
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David Field on LinkedIn, The Daily Beast, Krista Jäntti on LinkedIn, Krista Jäntti on LinkedIn, Theo Priestley on LinkedIn, Dubravko Dolic on LinkedIn, Rafael Brown on LinkedIn, Prof J. Mark Bishop on LinkedIn, Engadget, @moh_kohn@mastodon.scot, @vruz@mastodon.social, @rthornton777@mastodon.social, @00Aaron@social.coop and @ashedryden@scholar.social
Anja Karadeglija / National Post:
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters urges the government to also regulate services beyond Google's and Meta's, like Apple News, under the Online News Act — The association said only Google and Meta are covered by the Online News Act, ‘even though there are other platforms that benefit from the distribution of news content’
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Tucker Carlson's Last Country signed its first advertising deal, worth at least $1M, with conservative-friendly shopping app Public Square, on October 20 — - Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's new media company signed its first advertising deal. — The agreement is with conservative …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Crunchyroll launches its streaming service on Amazon's Prime Video Channels in the US for $7.99+ per month, and coming to Canada, Sweden, and the UK this week — If you're a Prime Video subscriber, beginning today, you can start streaming Crunchyroll, the popular anime service, right from inside the Prime Video app.
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