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After Bulgaria expelled a Russian journalist for a state-owned outlet, Russia summons a Bulgarian correspondent in Moscow to the foreign ministry — Russia on Thursday warned Bulgaria that it would retaliate against Sofia for its decision to expel a Russian journalist on national security grounds …

Discussion: Fox News

Eve Sampson / ICIJ:
Q&A with Patrick Forbes, the director of “The Price of Truth” documentary on Dmitry Muratov, on his attempts to keep Russia's last independent newspaper going

Discussion: @eveksampson

The Hollywood Reporter:

HBO's Casey Bloys concedes that creating Twitter accounts to undermine TV critics was a “very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration” — The HBO CEO apologized for the accounts that trolled critics posting about network programming on social media.

Mark Caro / Local News Initiative:

Q&A with Ken Doctor on the Press Forward's philanthropic commitment to invest $500M in local news, his local digital news outlet Lookout Santa Cruz, and more — Veteran journalist Ken Doctor had been analyzing “Newsonomics” for many years when he jumped back into the game to launch …

Discussion: Voice of San Diego, Andy Donohue on LinkedIn and The Atlantic

Columbia Journalism School:

Columbia Journalism School names Margaret Sullivan as executive director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, starting on January 1 — Margaret Sullivan, weekly columnist for the Guardian US, will become the Executive Director for the Craig Newmark Center …

Discussion: @sulliview, @craignewmark, @sulliview and @columbiajourn

Joe Duball / IAPP:

The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta's use of personal data for behavioral ads across the EU member states and EEA countries within two weeks — An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe. Changes are coming to adtech's approach to privacy …

Discussion: Luca Bolognini on LinkedIn, Joe Jones on LinkedIn, MarTech, edpb.europa.eu, @privacymatters, @Frederik_Borgesius …, Independent.ie, Mobile Dev Memo, @eric_seufert, @Privacymatters@mastodon …, Advanced Television, Bloomberg, Reuters, MediaPost, Wired and CNN, more at Techmeme »

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording — Today marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services …

Mia Sato / The Verge:

Meta announces new creator tools, including a Reels A/B testing tool to test different versions of Reels and see which perform best — Creators on Facebook are getting a handful of new tools on the platform — including the ability to test how different Reels perform against each other.

Discussion: Engadget and Meta, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg:

The FTC says Jeff Bezos personally ordered Amazon execs to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »

Jared Newman / TechHive:

Amazon adds advertisements for physical products, such as earbuds, to Fire TV's top feature carousel, which until now has only promoted streaming video content — Amazon will hawk products straight from the top carousel and bring ads into search results. — CORD-CUTTER CONFIDENTIAL

Discussion: MediaPost, @techhive, @Newmy@writing.exchange, AdExchanger and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »

Gerardo Arbaiza / Reuters:

El Salvador's Congress repeals a law that criminalized the publication of gang messages, which critics said unjustly targeted journalists; no arrests were made — El Salvador's Congress repealed a law on Wednesday that criminalized the publication of gang messages, as ruling party leaders declared victory …

Sophia Stewart / Publishers Weekly:

Scholastic employees, represented by the News Guild of New York, staged a one-day work stoppage on November 1 after the publisher's rejection of a wage proposal — Unionized workers at Scholastic staged a one-day work stoppage on November 1 following the children's publisher's rejection …

Discussion: @newsguild, @gaufre, @nyguild, @brerva and The NewsGuild

Committee to Protect Journalists:

At least 27 local and international journalists covering recent political rallies in Bangladesh's Dhaka were attacked by demonstrators and the police — Bangladesh authorities must immediately and impartially investigate the assaults on at least 27 journalists covering recent political rallies …