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8:00 AM ET, October 30, 2023

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Reporters Without Borders:
RSF investigation into the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon: one car had clear “press” markings and two strikes occurred ~30 seconds apart  —  Organisation:  — RSF_en  —  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a video reconstruction of the tragedy …
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Mark Bendeich / Reuters:
The Israel Defense Forces tells Reuters and the AFP that the safety of their journalists in Gaza cannot be guaranteed, after the outlets sought assurances  —  Israel's military has told international news organisations Reuters and Agence France Presse that it cannot guarantee the safety …
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath / Axios:
Some reporters in Gaza have been able to give intermittent updates via satellite connections, as a communications blackout since October 27 cuts off the Strip
David Montgomery / YouGov:
YouGov survey of 29,397 Americans: 85% own at least one physical book, 20% own one to 10, 14% own 11 to 25, and 13% own 26 to 50; 9% say they own 100+ e-books  —  Whether you sort your books by genre, author's name, the Dewey Decimal System, or the color of the spine, you're in the minority.
Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
A look at blue-collar influencers, including a trucker, a shepherd, and a fisherman, who have amassed large audiences by posting short videos of their workday  —  A new crop of popular social media personalities includes a trucker, a shepherd and a commercial fisherman.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
New York Times:
AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content  —  Fakes related to the conflict have been limited and largely unconvincing, but their presence has people doubting real evidence.
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Ad holding company Omnicom agrees to acquire Flywheel, the digital commerce arm of UK-based B2B media company Ascential, for a net cash purchase price of ~$835M  —  Flywheel, part of Cannes Lions owner Ascential, aims to help brands sell on digital marketplaces such as Amazon
David Zweig / Silent Lunch, The David Zweig Newsletter:
How a mistranslation and copying bad reporting may have led to wide coverage that 500+ people died in the Gaza hospital blast; no outlet quoted a primary source  —  I asked a dozen reporters and news outlets for the source of a statement they attributed to Hamas.  None of them answered.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content”  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works.  This will give chance to developers …
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Sources: BMG terminated ~40 employees on October 27; memo: the layoffs effectively “discontinued” its international marketing department for recordings and more  —  About 40 employees were let go Thursday, including executive vp, global repertoire Fred Casimir and senior vp, global repertoire Jason Hradil.
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A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes
Daniel Frankel / Next TV:
Morgan Stanley projects that Google will lose $1.204B in the 2023 season of YouTube TV's NFL Sunday Ticket, and $1.409B annually by the 2029 season
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A360Media-owned Soap Opera Digest discontinues its weekly print run; the daytime drama magazine launched in 1975 and saw its circulation peak at 1.5M in 1991
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA and studios plan to keep talking over the weekend; thousands of union members signed a letter saying they'd rather keep striking than take a bad deal
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
X adds a $16/mo. Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/mo. Basic plan with a “small boost” but no checkmark
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
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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