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8:00 AM ET, September 8, 2024

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
As the DirecTV-Disney carriage dispute continues, DirecTV nudges customers to Fubo or Sling and offers a $30 credit, and Disney offers $30 off Hulu with Live TV  —  DirecTV is offering discounts and a $30 credit toward Fubo or Sling, while Disney is offering $30 off the first month of Hulu with Live TV …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV plans price increases on October 6: DirecTV Stream Choice will go up by $6 to $114.99 per month, and DirecTV Stream Ultimate by $10 to $129.99 per month  —  The higher pricing for DirecTV's satellite TV and streaming television services will take effect on or after Oct. 6, 2024 …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sinclair ousts Ken Solomon, CEO of the Tennis Channel since 2005, citing his time spent advising Dr. Phil McGraw's company as a growing distraction  —  As the tennis world focuses on the U.S. Open, the network is embroiled in off-court drama.
Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
The Tenet Media case highlights both the lack of transparency in the creator economy and the threat this poses to media integrity  —  We need to know who is funding the creator economy  —  Yesterday, a federal indictment revealed that a Tennessee media company working with right-wing …
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An analysis of Tenet Media's videos shows frequent use of terms including “white people”, “Black people”, “civil war”, “Elon Musk”, and “illegal immigrants”
Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
A Tenet Media contributor tweeted that Tenet “has ended”; its X, Instagram, TikTok, and Rumble pages are online but haven't been updated since the indictment
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Nell McCafferty, whose writing on women's rights and gay rights helped turn Ireland into one of the most progressive European countries, died on Aug. 11 at 80  —  Her pugnacious writing on women's rights, gay rights and other issues helped turn her country into one of the most progressive in Europe.
Nathália Pandeló Corrêa / Inbox Collective:
A profile of The News, a Brazil-based newsletter published in the Portuguese language that has over 2M subscribers, 33 staffers, and seven spin-off newsletters  —  They've got two million active subscribers, eight different newsletters, 30+ staffers, and multiple revenue streams.
Discussion: @risj_oxford
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81  —  His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews.  His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling favoring publishers in a copyright dispute over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program  —  What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn't bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library?
Parker Molloy / New Republic:
Media “sanewashing”, or reframing Trump's incoherent and dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, is a form of misinfo that distorts reality  —  Four years ago, in an article for Media Matters for America, I warned that journalists were sanitizing Donald Trump's incoherent ramblings …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9  —  A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors.
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone will get $180M in severance and other benefits on top of $350M from the sale of her 20% stake in National Amusements  —  Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, will get $180 million in severance and other benefits on top of hundreds of millions from the sale …
Discussion: Financial Times and Reuters
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC plans to cut The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from five to four original episodes per week in the new season, the last to join its late-night rivals  —  The last of TV's big five-original-nights-a-week late-night show is giving up 24 hours out of its schedule.
 
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Megan Cassella / CNBC:
In a letter, Kamala Harris is endorsed for president by 88 corporate leaders, including media execs James Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Mark Cuban, and Barry Diller
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
The judge in the Google monopoly ruling says he'll take until August 2025 to determine remedies in the case and asks the DOJ to propose fixes by the end of 2024
Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters:
Sources: Starboard files a shareholder resolution to end dual-class shares that give Rupert Murdoch control of News Corp; Murdoch has ignored similar proposals
Discussion: CNBC
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
In a financial report, All3Media declares a £90.3M cash injection from RedBird IMI, which bought the British production company for £1.15B in February 2024
Discussion: City A.M.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The INN approved 48% of newsrooms that applied for its membership in 2023, as others failed to meet its standards which include prohibitions on “dark money”
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The UK CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices, and says Google's “self-preferences” on its own ad exchange harms competition, advertisers, and publishers
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”
 
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