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5:00 PM ET, October 27, 2023

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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Hasan Minhaj records a video in which he calls The New Yorker's profile of him “so needlessly misleading”; the magazine defends its work as “carefully reported”  —  The comedian releases a 20-minute video to THR giving his perspective on the profile, which accused him of fabricating details in his stand-up.
Zachary Small / New York Times:
Artforum fires EIC David Velasco after the prestigious outlet's open letter on the Israel-Hamas war “was widely misinterpreted as a statement from the magazine”  —  David Velasco was removed after the magazine's publishers said there was a flawed editorial process behind …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Dan Ackerman / Dan Ackerman on LinkedIn:
Dan Ackerman is stepping down as editor-in-chief of G/O Media's Gizmodo, which hired him in June 2023, and starting a “new consumer tech” EIC role later in 2023  —  Some big career news: I'm stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Gizmodo and starting an exciting new consumer tech Editor-in-Chief role later this year.
GB News:
Former UK PM Boris Johnson plans to join GB News as a presenter, program maker, and commentator in 2024, ahead of the UK general election and the US elections  —  Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson will play a key role on Britain's news channel  —  Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Charter lost 320K video customers in Q3 2023, citing the Disney carriage dispute in September, compared to 211K video customers the cable giant lost in Q3 2022  —  Disney's channels, including ESPN, ABC and FX, went dark for Charter customers in September.  —  Charter Communications …
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Source: during an all-hands, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino referenced ambitions to create XWire, a press release service that would rival Cision's PR Newswire  —  Executives at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, said they see YouTube and LinkedIn as future competitors …
Jason Kilar / Variety:
As linear TV wanes and YouTube and TikTok grow, Hollywood studios and sports leagues need to jointly deliver a product that 9 out of 10 households choose to buy  —  Hollywood is hurting.  The financial backbone of the industry — linear television — is rapidly shrinking as consumers continue to cut the cord at alarming rates.
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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
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A federal judicial panel denies live TV coverage of two Donald Trump criminal trials set for 2024, after requests from some news outlets and 38 US House members  —  A courts committee says it lacks authority to modify a broadcasting ban in time for the historic criminal cases against the former president.
 
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Staff at USA Today's Reviewed say Gannett is undermining them by publishing articles that appear to be AI-generated and using fake bylines, which Gannett denies