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2:55 PM ET, October 25, 2023

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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Internal Slack messages show senior NYT editors dismissed suggestions from some staff that the paper hedge in its initial framing of the Gaza hospital explosion  —  Internal messages obtained by Vanity Fair offer a glimpse into the newsroom decision-making process and reveal pushback among …
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CNN:
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
Shruti Rajkumar / HuffPost:
Scholastic drops plans to separate books based on themes about race and gender at US school fairs, after criticism that segregating books enabled censorship  —  The publisher had said it would segregate books with themes on race and gender at school fairs in order to navigate a rash of bans across the country.
Financial Times:
The UK's ICO finds that former NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose disclosed confidential, misleading information to a journalist about Nigel Farage's bank account  —  ICO regulator finds Alison Rose disclosed confidential and misleading information to journalist in ‘de-banking’ row
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Vox Media:
Melissa Bell steps down as publisher of Vox; EIC Swati Sharma will also become the publisher, reporting to Vox Media president Pam Wasserstein  —  Today, Melissa Bell announced that she will be stepping down as publisher of Vox, and that editor-in-chief Swati Sharma will take on the expanded role …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Sources: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Jewish community leaders that he asked the Qatari prime minister to tone down Al Jazeera's war coverage  —  U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken told a group of American Jewish community leaders on Monday that he asked the Qatari prime minister less …
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.
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGAW apologizes for the “tremendous pain” caused by its silence on the Israel-Hamas war, saying that the guild generally takes stances only on domestic issues  —  The Writers Guild of America West issued an apology to its members on Tuesday for the harm caused by its decision …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon launches a generative AI tool in beta that lets advertisers create “lifestyle imagery” backgrounds or scenes around the products they are hoping to sell  —  Amazon is beta testing AI image generation tools for its advertisers, offering an easy way to create backgrounds …
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple increases the price of Apple TV+ from $6.99 per month to $9.99 per month and News+ from $9.99 per month to $12.99 per month  —  Apple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ …
Rania Aniftos / Billboard:
TikTok announces TikTok in The Mix, its first live global music event, set for December 10 in Mesa, Arizona, with Cardi B, Niall Horan, Anitta, and Charlie Puth  —  The event will take place on Dec. 10 at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz.  —  TikTok is continuing its foray into the music world …
 
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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
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.19B, vs. $1.11B est., net loss up 2% YoY to $368M, DAUs up 12% YoY to 406M, vs. 405.7M est., and won't give Q4 guidance
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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”
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