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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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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.
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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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, The Messenger, Sportico, @jbflint, 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
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
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
CISAC: for 5M+ creators in music, AV, drama, literature, and visual arts, digital royalties rose 33.5% YoY to €4.2B 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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CMU, Reuters, Billboard, 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 paper 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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Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 23% YoY to $34.15B and net income up 164% YoY to $11.58B, but warns of “softer ad spend” in Q4 — Facebook and Instagram parent says it has seen more ‘volatility’ in economic conditions — Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram …
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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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
In an email to WaPo staff, Jeff Bezos says he's “committed to the future of the Post” and that “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, @dannypage, @scottnover, @dcwoodruff, @_silversmith, @semaforben, @dylanbyers 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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Variety, Music Week, CMU, Billboard and Financial Times
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports NBCU Q3 revenue up ~1% YoY to $10.5B and adjusted EBITDA of $1.97B; Peacock has 28M subscribers, a $565M loss, and $840M in revenue, up 64% YoY — 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, Streaming Better, Variety, The Information, The Wrap, Deadline, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, CNBC, Publishing Perspectives, Business Wire and Media Play News
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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