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Brian Stelter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Conversations with 24 staffers from ABC, NYT, and other outlets reveal the challenges of covering the Israel-Hamas war, including disinformation and defamation — An inside look at how correspondents are juggling online harassment even as they dodge the dangers of real-time reporting in the escalating conflict.
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@jackiedstrause, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @mohammrafik, @alexweprin, The Economist, Vanity Fair, IndieWire and Bollyinside
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The Daily Beast:
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
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Mediaite, CNN, @moawady, Al Jazeera, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Middle East Eye, BBC, @ryangrim, @joshuaphilll, @still_oppressed, @acdha@thepit.social, @sanasaeed, @lowkey0nline, @sumayaawad, Mediaite, @ajenglish, @ajenglish, @malonebarry, @omarbaddar, @raniakhalek, @seanmccarthycom, @adamelmahrek, @jerryiannelli, @alexcrawfordsky, @fahrettinaltun, @shivaroor, @shashikalb, @imraansiddiqi, @moawady, Reuters, Washington Post, The Indian Express, The Guardian, The Hill, @aidan_mclaughlin@threads.net, Al Jazeera, @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, @XLCChelt@mastodonapp.uk, Bollyinside and The Messenger
Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Staff at USA Today's Reviewed say Gannett is undermining them by publishing articles that appear to be written by AI using fake bylines, a charge Gannett denies — Staff writers at Reviewed suspect that management published stories written by AI under the names of non-existent writers.
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Awful Announcing, @nyguild, The Daily Beast, @gaufre, Pam Mandel on LinkedIn, The Verge, Eric Anderson on LinkedIn, @jon@henshaw.social, Pam Mandel on LinkedIn, Stephen Perrine on LinkedIn, Chad Capellman on LinkedIn, Peter Frank on LinkedIn, Matt Sabo, M.S. on LinkedIn, Poynter and The Messenger
Financial Times:
Publisher Basic Books acknowledges apparent plagiarism in UK Shadow Chancellor's Rachel Reeves new book on women economists, including from Wikipedia and blogs — ‘The Women Who Made Modern Economics’ contains examples of apparent plagiarism — A new book by Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor …
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Plagiarism Today, The Guardian, BBC, CityAM, inews.co.uk, @hughrbrechin, @tbraithwaite, @owenwalker0, The Sun, GB News, @bdstanley, @katemaltby, @profchalmers, @duncanrobinson, @henrymance, @yuanyi_z, Boing Boing and Guido Fawkes
Mark Miller / TVNewsCheck:
Nexstar and ReachTV announce a distribution deal for NewsNation and The CW's sports programming, reaching 500K hotel rooms and TV screens in 90+ US airports — Nexstar Media Group and ReachTV today announced that they are partnering to extend the distribution of Nexstar's cable news network NewsNation …
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Next TV, Radio & Television …, Streaming Better and Cord Cutters News
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Bloomsbury CEO Nigel Newton says generative AI steals copyrighted work and says UK leaders should support the Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Bill — Group that launched Harry Potter series says copyright not sufficiently being protected — The chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing …
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Mark Montgomery on LinkedIn and Reuters
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
CISAC: for 5M+ creators in music, AV, drama, literature, and visual arts, digital royalties rose 33.5% YoY to €4.17B in 2022, making up 35% of global royalties — - Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — Global collecting societies body Cisac has published …
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Reuters, Music Week and CISAC
Washington Post:
Although creators are an economic juggernaut in the US, the industry remains broadly unregulated and largely fails to appear in the Census Bureau's job index — The U.S. Census Bureau tallies for the federal government an extensive list of 22,607 American industries, recognizing those who work …
Tristan Kirk / London Evening Standard:
The Noel Clarke vs. The Guardian libel trial begins; the actor sued the newspaper for £10M for calling him a “sexual predator”, based on testimony from 20 women — TV star says Guardian articles that accused him of sexual misconduct and bullying had ‘catastrophic’ impact on his career
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The Messenger and Variety
Wall Street Journal:
Private equity firm Silver Lake, which owns ~71% of Endeavor Group Holdings's voting stake, is working on a plan to take the company private; EDR jumps 24%+ — 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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Silver Lake Partners, The Messenger, @jbflint, Sportico, Reuters, Deadline, Awful Announcing, Front Office Sports, The Information, Variety and The Wrap
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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
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New York Post, Business Wire, @sherman4949, @jbflint, Front Office Sports, Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC 7 San Diego, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Israeli Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi's push to shut down Al Jazeera's Israeli operations, following his attempts to overhaul Israel's media — In the days after Hamas attacked Israel earlier this month, Shlomo Karhi, the country's communications minister …
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@jon_allsop and Charles-Antoine Rouyer on LinkedIn
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Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 23% YoY to $34.15B and net income up 164% YoY to $11.58B, but CFO Susan Li warns the company has observed “softer ad spend” in Q4 — Facebook and Instagram parent says it has seen more ‘volatility’ in economic conditions
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Jeff Bezos emails Washington Post staff: he is “committed to the future of the Post” and thinks “long term it's important that The Post return to profitability” — NEW: Jeff Bezos emails staff: “Long term it's important that The Post return to profitability - a key signal that we're serving readers in a way that's important to them.” [image]
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The Hill, @dylanbyers, @dannypage, @dcwoodruff, @scottnover, @semaforben, @_silversmith and Puck
Reuters:
Hipgnosis shareholders vote against the sale of 29 music catalogs to Blackstone and require proposals to reorganize or shutter the company within six months — Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG.L) said on Thursday that shareholders voted against the sale of some music catalogues and the continuation …
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Financial Times, Music Week, Variety, CMU and Billboard
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports NBCU Q3 revenue up ~1% YoY to $10.56B and a $1.97B adjusted EBITDA; Peacock had 28M subscribers, a $565M loss, and revenue up 64% YoY to $840M — The studio's streaming service continued to grow its customer base on a narrowed loss. … The studio's streaming service lost $614 million in the year-ago period.
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Reuters, Forbes, The Streamable, IndieWire, TVNewsCheck, Front Office Sports, The Information, Variety, The Wrap, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, CNBC, Deadline, Streaming Better, Business Wire and Media Play News
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