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Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
The BBC says Newsnight will become a “30-minute interview, debate, and discussion show” and cuts 30+ jobs to save £7.5M as part of plans to make £500M in cuts — More than half of jobs at flagship BBC Two political programme to be lost as corporation diverts money to digital platforms
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The BBC plans to cut ~127 jobs across BBC News and Current Affairs, but will create 147 digital-focused roles and expand BBC Verify with new reporting roles — 127 jobs cut across BBC News but 147 new digital roles created. — Newsnight is being hit in the latest BBC cuts …
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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk dismisses fear of advertisers leaving X after his controversial posts: “If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising ... go fuck yourself” — - In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” …
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Elon Musk says organizations that don't pay for X subscriptions don't get recommended, in a reply to a question about X's throttling of The New York Times — Elon Musk sat for a question and answer session with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin during the 2023 DealBook Summit sponsored by The New York Times.
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CBC News:
Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the country's Online News Act; Google plans to pay news companies around CA$100M per year, or ~$74M — Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force — Google and the federal government have reached …
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Sports Business Journal:
NASCAR plans to announce $7.7B in media rights deals from 2025 to 2031 with Amazon, WBD, Fox Sports, and NBC, with some events streamed on Prime Video and Max — NASCAR is on the cusp of announcing $7.7B worth of media rights deals with Fox Sports, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Music and culture outlet Paste Magazine buys Jezebel, with plans to start publishing today, and Splinter, the political news site shut down by G/O Media in 2019 — The pioneering feminist website is being sold to Paste by G/O Media, which had shut down the site this month.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to its mobile app, the App Store, and Google Play on December 14, available to its users at no extra charge — The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition" will be available Dec. 14 for Netflix customers …
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Investigation: Palestinians are excluded from, or face barriers to, monetizing via Google's services, as the region's digital divide comes under new scrutiny — YouTube's revenue sharing for creators and other Google services are shut off or hard to access for people in Palestinian territories.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Plex users express alarm after getting a “Week in Review” email that showed what they and their friends watched, part of Plex's opt-out Discover Together tool — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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Futurism and @hamatti@mastodon.world, more at Techmeme »
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says “generational disruption” is affecting the entertainment industry and “requires more aggressive, tougher, faster, decisions” — The Warner Bros. Discovery mogul also addressed ousted former CNN CEO Chris Licht, who was in the room …
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011 — Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters.
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@nonmateria@merveilles.town and @elysdir@mastodon.social
Steven J. Horowitz / Variety:
Spotify reveals 2023's most-streamed artists, albums, songs, and podcasts: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus' Flowers, The Joe Rogan Experience, and more — Spotify has revealed its annual Wrapped campaign for 2023, announcing the top-streamed artists, albums, songs and podcasts …
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