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7:55 AM ET, November 16, 2023

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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook, 26% from YouTube, 16% from 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.
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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+
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
A look at the precedent of journalists from the US news organizations embedding with the IDF, which has reignited a debate about the ethics of the practice  —  On November 4, CNN broadcast a report on the Israel-Hamas war that was unlike any of its prior coverage: Jeremy Diamond …
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Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Spotify expands Spotify Audience Network, its advertising marketplace for podcasts launched in 2021, to five new markets, including Sweden and India  —  Music streaming company Spotify (SPOT.N) on Thursday said it will launch its advertising marketplace for podcasts in five new markets, including Sweden and India.
Discussion: The Verge
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Source: ByteDance's Douyin tests letting creators with 100K+ followers add paywalls to their videos; local Chinese media reports Douyin takes a 30% cut  —  TikTok owner ByteDance is testing a paywall feature for content creators on its short video platform Douyin in China …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obsessive coverage of a poll showing Donald Trump leading Joe Biden highlights the sorry state of the US political media and ignores the threat to democracy  —  Last week demonstrated the sorry state of political coverage in this country.  The fixation on early, non-predictive polling …
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."
Will Knight / Wired:
YouTube lets some Shorts creators test Dream Track, a new DeepMind-powered AI tool to generate and remix music in the styles of nine artists, including Sia  —  YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.
Vox:
Vox EIC and Publisher Swati Sharma names Elbert Ventura, previously EIC of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, as executive editor starting in January 2024  —  Ventura to oversee the text newsroom to shape rigorous, approachable coverage.  —  Today, editor-in-chief and publisher Swati Sharma announced …
Discussion: @nishachittal
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google News plans to end support for paid magazines starting on December 18 and says users will be able to export copies of paid magazines before the shutdown  —  A lesser known feature of the Google News app (and the website) is its ability to show digital copies of magazines …
Reuters:
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 …
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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
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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
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
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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
Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
A profile of Holly Herndon, an artist and musician who uses AI in her work and who co-founded Spawning, a company building a “consent layer for AI” for artists