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7:50 AM ET, November 2, 2023

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The Walt Disney Company:
Disney plans to acquire NBCU's 33% stake in Hulu, gaining full ownership, and expects to pay ~$8.61B, representing NBCU's share of a $27.5B guaranteed floor  —  The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that it will acquire the 33% stake in Hulu, LLC held by Comcast Corp.'s (NASDAQ …
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Ad intelligence service MediaRadar acquires Vivvix, a Kantar ad intelligence unit; MediaRadar tracks $200B+ in annual ad spend and has 20K customers  —  Exit Content Preview  —  MediaRadar has acquired Vivvix, Kantar Group's North American advertising intelligence business, executives tell Axios.
Discussion: MediaRadar
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: The Atlantic
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 …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube begins raising Premium's price globally, including in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Germany, Poland, and Turkey, after raising the US price in July  —  Following the United States in July, YouTube Premium's international price increase is starting.
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of gang messages, which critics said unjustly targeted journalists; no arrests were made  —  El Salvador's Congress repealed a law on Wednesday that criminalized the publication of gang messages, as ruling party leaders declared victory …
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  —  The film follows Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov as he tries to keep the country's last independent newspaper in operation.
Discussion: @eveksampson
Amanda Chicago Lewis / The Verge:
A critical look at the SEO industry: users complain that Google isn't as useful anymore, some SEO experts say gaming Google's algorithm is now harder, and more  —  As the public begins to believe Google isn't as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with The Economist Director of Podcasts John Prideaux on putting all the outlet's podcasts behind its paywall, except its biggest, The Intelligence  —  The Economist's biggest podcast, The Intelligence, will be the only one remaining outside the paywall.
Discussion: Podnews
Salem Media Group, Inc.:
Salem Media partners with Just The News to add podcasts by John Solomon, Victor Davis Hanson, and Bauer and Rose to the Salem Podcast Network  —  Salem Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SALM) announced today a new partnership between the Salem Podcast Network and Just The News to place the podcasts of John Solomon …
Discussion: Inside Radio and RADIO ONLINE
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 …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Daily Beast CEO Heather Dietrick is leaving to become chief media officer of Outside Inc., overseeing operations and 150+ staffers, at the end of 2023
Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Wrap
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Ng Hong Siang / Channel NewsAsia:
SPH Media, Singapore's largest news publisher, plans to acquire Tech in Asia, which has ~90 employees in the Asia-Pacific, and does “not anticipate any layoffs”
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Atmore News says its publisher and one of its reporters were arrested on October 27 for allegedly revealing grand jury secrets in a COVID-19 funds investigation
Cheyenne Roundtree / Rolling Stone:
Filing: text messages show HBO executives used fake Twitter accounts to troll TV critics and comment on trade publication stories from June 2020 to April 2021
New York Times:
Condé Nast plans to cut ~5% of its workforce, or ~270 staff, citing digital ad pressures, a decline in social media traffic, and shifting audience behaviors