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Brian Stelter / Rolling Stone:
Messages show Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham bashing Fox's news division colleagues for admitting Trump lost; Ingraham said “THEY ARENT SMART” — In an exclusive excerpt from Brian Stelter's new book, Network of Lies, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson …
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Matt Growcoot / PetaPixel:
Adobe's site for stock images lists AI-generated images of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and some small outlets have used them without labeling them as AI — As fears rise over fake imagery generated by artificial intelligence flooding the internet, one of the world's leading stock photo websites …
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
WWE's NXT will move from the USA Network to The CW in October 2024 in a new five-year deal, that sources say is over double the $15M/year current contract price — - Endeavor's TKO Group, New Home Of UFC & WWE, Reports First Quarterly Results Since Going Public This Fall
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How Joan Kroc's $230M+ donation to NPR in 2003 helped the organization create an endowment, accelerate its national growth, and open new international bureaus — Was Joan B. Kroc a public radio fan? It's unclear. But the heiress of the McDonald's fortune knew how she wanted to spend her millions.
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Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal:
Google adds generative AI features to its Performance Max ad platform, rolling out first as a beta to all US advertisers by the end of the year — Google launches generative AI in Performance Max to help marketers easily create customized text and image ads at scale.
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Diana Fuentes / Investigative Reporters & Editors:
Phil Meyer, an early proponent of using data analysis for investigative journalism and a former Knight Chair of Journalism at UNC, died on November 4 at 93 — Phil Meyer, a giant in data journalism and an IRE legend, died Saturday, Nov. 4, at home in Carrboro, North Carolina, surrounded by family.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg Media passes 500K subscribers, up from 425K in 2022; 60% of the subscribers are in the US, 20% in Europe and the Middle East, and 20% in Asia-Pacific — In a significant milestone, Bloomberg Media now has over 500,000 subscribers, the firm's chief digital officer Julia Beizer told Axios.
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Doug Greenberg / Front Office Sports:
The US Soccer League and CBS sign a deal to broadcast 100 games annually through 2027 across CBS' platforms, the first time that network TV will air USL matches — The United Soccer League and CBS Sports have reached a landmark agreement to bring the second and third tiers …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Amazon sells out its ad inventory for Thursday Night Football games slated for November 16 and November 30, and plans to open those games to non-Prime members — The Super Bowl isn't the only big football property that will be crammed full of advertising. — Amazon's Prime Video has sold …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Peter Chernin's North Road Company acquires a “significant stake” in Questlove and Black Thought's film and TV production company Two One Five Entertainment — The Peter Chernin-backed content rollup company will finance projects and provide executive support to the media company from The Roots co-founders.
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Chloe Cornish / Financial Times:
Omdia predicts India will be the world's fastest growing digital economy through 2027; YouTube's video ad revenue in the country grew 20% YoY to ~$690M in 2022 — US tech companies YouTube and Meta can expect to achieve rapid growth in video revenues, say analysts
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Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Crunchyroll debuts Game Vault, offering five mobile games for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, and promises a “new wave of titles coming soon” — Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. … The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.
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