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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, @alexweprin, @mohammrafik, 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, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, Middle East Eye, @ryangrim, @joshuaphilll, @still_oppressed, @acdha@thepit.social, @sanasaeed, @lowkey0nline, @sumayaawad, BBC, Mediaite, @ajenglish, @malonebarry, @omarbaddar, @raniakhalek, @seanmccarthycom, @adamelmahrek, @jerryiannelli, @ajenglish, @willmenaker, @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, The Verge, Eric Anderson on LinkedIn, @jon@henshaw.social, Pam Mandel on LinkedIn, 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
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon Q3: ad revenue up 26% YoY to $12B, vs. $10.4B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $10.1B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $87.9B — - Amazon blew past analyst expectations for revenue and earnings in the third quarter. — Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon
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NBC 7 San Diego and Amazon, more at Techmeme »
Financial Times:
Publisher Basic Books admits to apparent plagiarism in UK Shadow Chancellor's Rachel Reeves new book about 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, inews.co.uk, @hughrbrechin, @tbraithwaite, @owenwalker0, The Sun, GB News, @bdstanley, @katemaltby, @profchalmers, @duncanrobinson, @henrymance, @yuanyi_z, CityAM, 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 2,500+ TVs across 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
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
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
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
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, IndieWire, Forbes, The Streamable, Front Office Sports, The Information, Variety, The Wrap, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, CNBC, Deadline, Streaming Better, Business Wire and Media Play News
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