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6:15 PM ET, November 13, 2023

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Axios:
The Block sells an 80% stake to Singaporean VC Foresight Ventures, valuing the crypto outlet at $70M and freeing the business from its financial ties to FTX  —  Crypto media company The Block sold a majority stake to Singaporean venture capital firm Foresight Ventures in a deal valuing the crypto outlet at $70 million.
Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Source: after a backlash on social media, Warner Bros. Discovery plans to let the filmmakers of Coyote vs. Acme shop the movie to other potential distributors  —  In a surprising about-face, Warner Bros. executives will allow the filmmakers of Coyote vs. Acme, a $70 million live action/CGI …
Tara Conlan / The Guardian:
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Max Tani / Semafor:
Courier Newsroom, a network of liberal news sites, expands ahead of the 2024 US election with new contributors, newsletters, video series, op-eds, and podcasts  —  The Scoop  —  An emerging partisan news organization on the left is seriously gearing up to impact the 2024 election.
Larisha Paul / Rolling Stone:
USA Today appoints its first Beyoncé reporter, working out of the Gannett-owned Tennessean's Nashville newsroom, after hiring a Taylor Swift reporter  —  Meet journalist Caché McClay, who will work out of the Tennessean's Nashville newsroom as she delves into the inner workings …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Marvel's The Marvels, which cost ~$300M to make and market, netted just $47M in weekend ticket sales in the US and Canada, the lowest ever for a Marvel movie  —  “The Marvels” cost about $300 million to make and market and arrived to $47 million in domestic sales.  —  The once-superheroic Marvel Studios is now merely mortal.
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
A look at efforts by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to silence journalists in the name of fighting disinformation, including lawsuits and criminal probes  —  He calls fake news an enemy that threatens democracy.  Critics of President Yoon Suk Yeol say he is silencing journalists in the name of fighting disinformation.
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent and Fox News
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue the internet giant earns from search ads through Safari, per the US v. Google testimony of Alphabet's main economics expert  —  - Revenue sharing amount was supposed to remain confidential  — Google witness disclosed number during antitrust trial in DC
 
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Liz Gorny / It's Nice That:
The Guardian launches The Long Read Magazine, a print magazine available via The Guardian bookshop and some newsstands for £12.99
Dan Williams / Reuters:
Israel signals that the government will hold off on a threatened closure of Al Jazeera's local bureau, omitting the outlet from new emergency media regulations
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
The era of explicitly feminist media in the US appears to be over with the closure of Jezebel, which outlasted the rest of the feminist blogosphere
Carly Thomas / The Hollywood Reporter:
Actress Justine Bateman says union members should only approve SAG-AFTRA's tentative deal “if they don't want to work anymore”, calling out its AI provisions
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at Press Forward's first six local chapters and their leading funders in Alaska, Minnesota, Wichita, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Springfield, Illinois
Discussion: @allisonfrisch07