Mediagazer: Sources: some Univision journalists are alarmed by the network's new Trump approach; executives attended a Trump interview and Univision canceled some Biden ads (Washington Post)

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook; 26%, from YouTube; 16%, Instagram; 14%, TikTok; 12%, X; 8%, Reddit; and 5%, Nextdoor and LinkedIn — Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it's still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans.

Discussion: Pew Research Center, Axios, Reuters, Deadline and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, more at Techmeme »

Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:

Survey: 14% of US adults regularly get news on TikTok in 2023, up from 3% in 2020: 32% aged 18 to 29, 15% aged 30 to 49, 7% aged 50 to 64, and 3% aged 65+ — A small but growing share of U.S. adults say they regularly get news on TikTok. This is in contrast with many other social media sites …

Discussion: Washington Post

Financial Times:

As Rupert Murdoch cedes control to Lachlan this week, a look at Fox's legal issues: the $2.7B Smartmatic lawsuit, shareholder complaints, Ray Epps, and more — As the new chair completes his takeover, he must contend with unresolved claims hanging over the media company

Discussion: Cord Cutters News and Politico

Discussion: New York Post, @waywardboobs.bsky.social, @brianstelter and NPR

New York Times:

Interviews with 100+ people detail David Zaslav's WBD tenure, including cost cuts and a 50%+ stock drop, during a tumultuous time for the entertainment industry — A merger put him in the driver's seat at Warner Brothers, one of the industry's biggest studios. It has been a wild ride.

Discussion: IndieWire, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, @benmullin, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, @sidhubaba, @brianstelter, @mileskahn, @tsoh_investing, @stcroix2020 and ComingSoon.net

Discussion: The Daily Beast, @blakerutherford, @omunderdal, @benmullin, @benmullin, @jayrosen_nyu and @jamesstewartnyt

Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:

In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say executives decided this based on free speech considerations — Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year

Discussion: CNN, @doniecnn@threads.net, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Melissa Ryan on LinkedIn, @melissaryan@me.dm, New Republic, @jayrosen_nyu, @zamaan_qureshi, @vanbadham, @benpershing, @Noupside@saturation.social and The Rural Blog, more at Techmeme »

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:

The FCC adopts a rule to prevent limiting broadband access by “income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin”; ISPs and the GOP complain — Industry and GOP say rule goes too far, warn of a chilling effect on broadband investment

Discussion: The Verge, TVNewsCheck, PCMag, The White House, @pogue.omg.lol, Broadband Breakfast, FCC, Broadband Communities, Ars Technica, Broadband Communities, Broadband Breakfast, The Markup, Next TV, Cord Cutters News and Free Press, more at Techmeme »

404 Media:

The Guardian takes down a 2002 letter written by Osama Bin Laden criticizing US support of Israel, after the letter went viral on TikTok — “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared today on social media without its original context. Therefore we have decided to take it down."

Discussion: @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler and KTSM-TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Meng Ru Kuok, the CEO and founder of Singapore-based Caldecott Music Group, acquires Gawker's trademarks and domain, but not archives, from Bustle Digital Group — Get ready for Gawker 3.0: The twice-shuttered blog site has a new owner, who plans to bring the gossipy pop-culture brand back to life — but not in exactly the same way.

Discussion: The Wrap

New York Times:

US and European newsrooms face tough choices over which Israel-Hamas war photographs to publish, complicated by disinformation and photojournalist restrictions — Digital disinformation and restrictions on photojournalists have complicated decision-making about the visual chronicle of the Israel-Hamas war.

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

Memos: BuzzFeed Publisher Dao Nguyen steps down, replaced by Jessica Probus as the company moves from emphasizing its aggregated network to growing its brands — Veteran executive Jessica Probus will step up as its new publisher — Culture and entertainment publisher BuzzFeed Inc. unveiled …

Discussion: @bmorrissey, @maxwellstrachan and Jess Probus on LinkedIn

Thomas Wilde / GeekWire:

Amazon plans to merge its Comixology app with Kindle on December 4, and automatically integrate all comics that Comixology users own into their Kindle libraries — Amazon will merge its digital comics storefront Comixology with Kindle on Dec. 4, which will also involve the official end of service for the standalone Comixology app.

Discussion: The Beat, IGN, Comic Book, BetaNews, The Verge, Nerdvana, EconoTimes, @comixology, Bleeding Cool News, ICv2, AIPT, 9to5Google, Good e-Reader and Stevivor, more at Techmeme »

Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:

A look at Jazmine Hughes' resignation, as sources say The New York Times' guild objected to the handling of the New York Times Magazine staff writer's exit — The paper's guild has objected to the handling of award-winning journalist Jazmine Hughes's resignation, an episode that comes …

Discussion: @charlottetklein

Ben Smith / @semaforben:

Internal memo: opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo is leaving The New York Times — Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo leaving the New York Times, per an internal note from opinion editor.

Discussion: @howardkushlan, @fmanjoo, @rachelmetz, @jasonabbruzzese, @gadyepstein, @fmanjoo, @followtheh, @gamoid and @samuelaadams

Music Business Worldwide:

Stability AI VP of Audio Ed Newton-Rex resigns, saying he disagrees with the company's view that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is fair use — Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.

Discussion: Laurie Jakobsen on LinkedIn, @carnage4life@mas.to and @neilturkewitz, more at Techmeme »