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4:40 PM ET, November 14, 2023

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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using its own tools, in 2024  —  Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties  —  YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
BBC:
The BBC says five complaints have been made about Russell Brand's behavior while he hosted radio shows between 2006 and 2008  —  The BBC has said a total of five complaints have been made about Russell Brand's behaviour while he hosted radio shows between 2006 and 2008.
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NPR:
An NPR team says a drone approached them and Israeli forces aimed a gun at its journalists while they were interviewing a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank  —  WEST BANK - There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going.  And then it spins in an entirely different direction.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Henry Blodget steps down as Insider CEO, replaced by Barbara Peng; Insider changes its name back to Business Insider to focus on business and technology news  —  Publisher changes name back to Business Insider, with Barbara Peng to succeed Blodget as CEO  —  Henry Blodget, one of the early pioneers …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Knight Foundation names Gannett's former president Maribel Perez Wadsworth as its next president and CEO, starting in January  —  The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has named the newspaper executive Maribel Perez Wadsworth its next president and CEO.
The Guardian:
Investigation: independent German journalist Hubert Seipel received ~€600K from a Putin associate to support his Putin books, described by many as sympathetic  —  Influential author and broadcaster Hubert Seipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to Russian president
Defector:
Defector reports ~$4.5M in annual revenue, up from ~$3.8M in 2022, $3.75M in subscription revenue, 40K+ active subscribers, and ~$4.4M in operating expenses  —  Purpose of this report  —  More than three years into the company's existence, Defector continues to have no outside investors and no intention of raising outside capital.
Diana Pearl / Business of Fashion:
Model and investor Karlie Kloss is acquiring British fashion outlet i-D Magazine from Vice Media Group; Kloss' Bedford Media will be i-D's parent company  —  With the acquisition, the model will become i-D's CEO.  —  Karlie Kloss, the model turned investor and entrepreneur …
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Reuters:
Tencent Music reports Q3 revenue down 10.8% YoY to ~$900M, vs. ~$865M est., net profit up 15.6% YoY to ~$173M, and paying users up 20.8% YoY to 103M  —  China's Tencent Music Entertainment (1698.HK) beat estimates for third-quarter revenue on Tuesday, helped by steady growth in paid subscriptions on its music streaming platform.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Guardian expects $33M in US digital reader revenue in FY 2023/24, or ~57% of its US revenue, which is expected to be a little less than 20% of total revenue  —  The Guardian expects to make $33 million in digital reader revenue in the U.S. for its fiscal 2023/2024 year — a new record.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TikTok now lets users save songs from the app to Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, initially launching for US and UK users, with more markets to follow  —  TikTok has long touted the app as a place to discover new music — and its ability to propel songs into viral hits.
 
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Local media: Russia pardons a man convicted in 2014 for murdering Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in 2006, in return for fighting in Ukraine
John Koblin / New York Times:
CBS plans to bring back scripted series in mid-February 2024, becoming the first network to lay out post-strike scheduling plans after the tentative agreement
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Analysis: in 2022, Mail Online had the most partially and fully upheld IPSO complaints, with seven, followed by The Times, Express, and Mirror, with three each
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Jason Donner, a former Fox News Capitol Hill reporter, sues the network, alleging he was fired for opposing Fox's “false coverage of the January 6 insurrection”
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
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users

Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted

John Voorhees / MacStories:
Apple releases updates to Final Cut Pro, adding AI-generated closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing, and Logic Pro for macOS and iPadOS
 
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