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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 — Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh's wife, son, and daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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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, @alexweprin, @brianstelter, The Economist, @mohammrafik, Vanity Fair, IndieWire and Bollyinside
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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@chargrille@progressives …, @joey@spore.social, @moorehn, @alivelshi, @aljazeeraenglish@threads.net and Wired
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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Silver Lake Partners, Sportico, Awful Announcing, Reuters, Front Office Sports, Variety, @jbflint, Deadline, The Information 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 — - Ari Emanuel's Endeavor Group Holdings will explore strategic alternatives, which could include a sale.
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Business Wire, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, @jbflint, @sherman4949, CNN, Front Office Sports, 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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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, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and TVLine
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Direqt, which offers customizable AI chatbots to ESPN, GQ, Wired, Vogue, and other publishers, raised a $4.5M seed from Todd Parker, Dan Marino, and others — A number of news and media publishers are already blocking AI web crawlers from accessing their sites, worried about the impact …
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 — This is huge news - and it's been a long time coming. MBW has confirmed that Spotify is planning to make significant changes …
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Billboard, Jan Pauly on LinkedIn, @dada_drummer, @abelowrob, Consequence, @isobel_starling, @dada_drummer, Drew Thurlow on LinkedIn, @marielxloveland, @curtisstigers, NME, @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, The Verge, Stereogum, The Fader, CMU, Digital Music News and Music Ally, more at Techmeme »
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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@georgewparker, Tim Turner on LinkedIn, Bloomberg, The i Paper, City A.M. and GB News
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, @aservais1 and LinkedIn, more at Techmeme »
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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Nisha Chittal on LinkedIn, Melissa Bell on LinkedIn and MediaPost
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