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6:40 PM ET, October 25, 2023

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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.

Barak Ravid / Axios:

Sources: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken told US Jewish community leaders that he asked the Qatari prime minister to tone down Al Jazeera's war rhetoric — 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 …

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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 …

Discussion: @moorehn, @alivelshi, @aljazeeraenglish@threads.net, Wired and Los Angeles Times

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.

Discussion: CNN, Bloomberg, Business Wire, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, @sherman4949, Hollywood Reporter and @jbflint

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

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap, Silver Lake Partners and @jbflint

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+ …

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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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

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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Scott Nover / Slate:

US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta has repeatedly accepted Google's requests to redact docs and hold closed-door testimony, alarming press advocates and reporters — U.S. v. Google was supposed to be the “antitrust trial of the century”—the highest-profile, and potentially the most consequential …

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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

Discussion: Tim Turner on LinkedIn, Bloomberg, CityAM and GB News

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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch, About Amazon, Engadget and The Information, more at Techmeme »

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