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10:40 PM ET, November 15, 2023

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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 …
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Members of the The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party ask Tim Cook to explain the abrupt ending of The Problem With Jon Stewart on TV+  —  U.S. lawmakers asked Apple Inc to explain the abrupt end of political comedian Jon Stewart's television show on its streaming service …
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.
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.
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Interviews with 12+ CNN insiders detail how David Zaslav cultivated friendships with some of CNN's biggest names, which did not stop him from later firing them
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.
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."
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 …
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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.
 
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Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
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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
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
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