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Al Jazeera reports that the wife, son, and daughter of its Gaza bureau chief, Wael Al-Dahdouh, were killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp — Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh's wife, son, and daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Hill, CNN, @moawady, Mediaite, Associated Press, @alexcrawfordsky, Reuters, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, @shashikalb, @imraansiddiqi, @aidan_mclaughlin@threads.net, @fahrettinaltun, @ajenglish, @moawady, @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie, @XLCChelt@mastodonapp.uk, @shivaroor and The Messenger
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Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
CPJ: at least 24 journalists have been killed through October 25 in the Israel-Hamas war, the deadliest period since the committee began tracking deaths in 1992 — At least 24 journalists are among the more than 6,000 people who have been killed in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas …
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@moorehn, @alivelshi, @aljazeeraenglish@threads.net, Wired and Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal:
Silver Lake, which owns ~71% of the voting stake in Endeavor Group Holdings, says it is working on a plan to take the company private; EDR rose 24%+ after hours — The owner of WME and IMG said it was exploring options, but will keep its majority interest in TKO, the company that controls UFC and WWE
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Awful Announcing, Variety, The Wrap, Deadline, Silver Lake Partners, Front Office Sports, The Information and @jbflint
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Mike Calia / CNBC:
Endeavor, Ari Emanuel's talent agency and sports company, announces a formal review of strategic alternatives for the company, which could mean a potential sale — - Ari Emanuel's Endeavor Group Holdings will explore strategic alternatives, which could include a sale.
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Business Wire, CNN, Bloomberg, Front Office Sports, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, @jbflint, Hollywood Reporter and @sherman4949
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Sources: Spotify plans major changes to its royalty model in Q1 2024, including a threshold of minimum annual streams before a track starts generating royalties — SPOTIFY IS CHANGING ITS ROYALTY MODEL - AND WANTS TO SHIFT $1BN TO ‘WORKING ARTISTS’ — BELIEVE GENERATED $234M IN Q3, UP 9.1% YOY PEERMUSIC ACQUIRES IN NORWAY
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Billboard, NME, The Verge, Jan Pauly on LinkedIn, The Fader, @dada_drummer, @abelowrob, Consequence, @isobel_starling, Stereogum, @dada_drummer, Drew Thurlow on LinkedIn, @marielxloveland, @curtisstigers, @abelowrob, @swimmersjackson, @joshokane, @umaw_, Nick Jarjour on LinkedIn, EDMTunes, @future_of_music, Pete Callaghan on LinkedIn, @p_lyons_, @nikostratis, @vinsonvalega, Music Business Worldwide, @chrisgraue, @dada_drummer, CMU, Music Ally and Digital Music News, more at Techmeme »
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA rescheduled an October 25 bargaining session with studios until October 26; studios haven't consented to pay a percentage of streaming subscriptions — The sides had been expected to meet today at SAG-AFTRA headquarters in Los Angeles. The sides are now expected to meet on Thursday.
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Deadline, Gizmodo, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and TVLine
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple raises the monthly US price of Apple TV+ from $6.99 to $9.99, News+ from $9.99 to $12.99, Arcade from $4.99 to $6.99, and Apple One from $16.95 to $19.95 — Apple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+ …
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Internal Slack messages show senior NYT editors dismissed some staff's suggestions that the newspaper hedge 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 …
Bloomberg:
How telecoms and media giant Altice, led by billionaire Patrick Drahi, became weighed down by scandals and debt-fueled acquisitions from a low-interest-rate era — He built his telecoms empire in an era of low interest rates. Now, with soaring debt costs and a corruption case in the corporate suite …
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@abhinavvr, LinkedIn and @aservais1, more at Techmeme »
Shruti Rajkumar / HuffPost:
Scholastic drops its 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.
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Gizmodo, Horatio Blackman, PhD on LinkedIn, Allison V. Manswell, CPTD on LinkedIn, LinkedIn, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Bleeding Cool News, Fast Company, New York Times, NPR, @petersuber@fediscience.org, Publishers Weekly, CBS News, @fangmous, Associated Press, @mikejungwroteabook …, @mikejungwroteabook … and @mikejungwroteabook …
Financial Times:
The UK ICO finds that former NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose disclosed confidential and 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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inews.co.uk, Bloomberg, Tim Turner on LinkedIn, CityAM and GB News
Vox Media:
Melissa Bell steps down as Vox's publisher; EIC Swati Sharma plans to expand her role to EIC and 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 …
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MediaPost, Melissa Bell on LinkedIn and Nisha Chittal on LinkedIn
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