Mediagazer: Sources: Sonos teams up with The Trade Desk for a TV streaming device; The Trade Desk will supply Sonos with the TV OS and negotiate deals with publishers (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)

3:00 PM ET, September 12, 2024

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Selome Hailu / Variety:

Nielsen: the Harris-Trump debate drew ~67.14M US viewers across multiple networks, almost 16M more viewers than the final Biden-Trump debate in June — That number was up 31% from the 51.266 million who tuned in to Trump's debate with president Joe Biden (from CNN) in June, before the latter dropped out to endorse Harris.

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
How Linsey Davis and David Muir firmly pursued real-time fact-checking to build guardrails around Trump in the ABC News debate between Trump and Harris

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Tom Davidson / London Evening Standard:

UK counter-terror police are involved in the investigation of the sudden death of 32-year-old journalist David Holmes, host of the Ukraine: The Latest podcast — David Knowles was host of the successful Ukraine: The Latest podcast and Russia had banned him from entering the country

Discussion: Telegraph, The Guardian, Breitbart, The Official Royal …, The Sun, Politico, Press Gazette, Jo Coughlin on LinkedIn, Robert Hicken on LinkedIn and Catherine Bentley-Gouldstone on LinkedIn

Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:

California's Google deal to fund journalism might leave out startups and outlets with annual revenue under $100K/year, but finalizing details could take months — “We don't know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won't for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them)."

Discussion: @sarahscire and Nieman Journalism Lab on LinkedIn

Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:

Sources: Sonos teams up with The Trade Desk for a TV streaming device; The Trade Desk will supply Sonos with the TV OS and negotiate deals with publishers — Also: $10 TV dongles are here … Sonos is getting some outside help in its quest to expand to video: The smart speaker maker …

Discussion: Digiday

Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:

The IDF is probing claims that The Jewish Chronicle published stories by a freelancer that might have been based on fabrications; the outlet is investigating — Israeli military launches inquiry into claims that stories may have been planted as part of disinformation campaign

Discussion: +972 Magazine, The JC, @yachaduk, @yachaduk, @marcowenjones, @gabriel_pogrund, @hannahweisfeld, Haaretz and Haaretz

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

A look at “consent or pay” in the UK and Europe, where news sites charge fees for users to avoid personalized ads; six of the top 50 UK sites ask readers to pay — The Times has set the highest price for avoiding personalised advertising - but will people actually pay?

Discussion: Elena Morin on LinkedIn and GDPRhub

The New York Times Company:

The New York Times re-establishes its Vietnam bureau, which it closed in 1975, naming Damien Cave to serve as Vietnam bureau chief, based in Ho Chi Minh City — Damien Cave will lead the bureau in Ho Chi Minh City, as The New York Times continues to expand global coverage.

Discussion: @nytimespr

Bron Maher / Press Gazette:

The UK's Mill Media expects £1M in revenue in 2025 and says it is leaving Substack for Ghost to save money and to develop a direct relationship with readers — Manchester Mill and its sister titles are moving off newsletter platform Substack for the first time and onto websites hosted by competitor Ghost.

Discussion: @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph:

Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that pays artists via blockchain micropayments, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets — The fresh capital brings Tune.fm's total funding to $80 million. The funds will be used to reward artists and users within the platform.

Discussion: CoinDesk and Music Ally, more at Techmeme »

Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro / Bloomberg:

Academic publisher Springer Nature is planning a Frankfurt IPO in 2024, after canceling in 2018 and 2020; in 2023, it had €511M in profit and €1.85B in revenue — - Deal to include new and existing shares held by BC Partners — It's the first sizable IPO in Europe after the summer lull

Discussion: Reuters and Financial Times

Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:

WBD and Charter sign a multiyear renewal deal that will make the Ad Lite tier of Max available on Spectrum TV Select packages for no extra fee — The deal is in line with other agreements Charter has struck with Disney and Paramount that add streamers to its cable bundle.

Discussion: Variety, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Streamable, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Advanced Television, Next TV, The Hollywood Reporter, Streaming Better, Media Play News and WORLD SCREEN

Kevin Eck / Adweek:

Ellen Crooke, Tegna's SVP of news since 2014, plans to retire in January 2025; she joined Tegna when it was Gannett Broadcasting in 2002 — Tegna senior vice president of news Ellen Crooke is retiring from the station group in January 2025. — Crooke joined Tegna when it was Gannett Broadcasting in 2002 …

Discussion: Yahoo Finance, Radio & Television … and The Desk

Fern Shen / Baltimore Brew:

The Baltimore Sun fired reporter Madeleine O'Neill, who was hired in April, citing comments she made internally criticizing news coverage under its new owners — The Baltimore Sun Guild denounced the action, saying Madeleine O'Neill “was fired by management because of her outspoken advocacy …

Discussion: @baltsunguild, @ericalg, @skamidi, @hnnhgskllalso, @jolonso_, @24_angier, @24_angier, @kasey0613, @profdavidjaros, @kasey0613, @sueblueswilson and @maddioneill

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon's Prime Video adds AI-driven “Prime Insights”, expands interactive ad formats, and adds 50 new brands as advertisers for Thursday Night Football

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Calum Jaspan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Nine CEO Mike Sneesby steps down and will depart the company at the end of September after over three years in the role; CFO Matt Stanton is named interim CEO

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
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Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
Oahu Publications, which owns Hawaii newspapers, is using AI-generated newscasters on the YouTube and Instagram channels of The Garden Island, launched in 1902

Discussion: Wired, @jason_koebler, @brianvastag@sciencemastodon … and Tim Thigpen on LinkedIn

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed down over 10% after Trump's debate with Harris, ending at their lowest level since they began publicly trading

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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: a group led by Dovid Efune, conservative publisher of The New York Sun, bids for The Telegraph; source: backers include Oaktree and Hudson Bay Capital

Discussion: City A.M., Financial Times, The Guardian, New York Times, Sky News and Press Gazette

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed

Discussion: Bluesky, The Verge, @kevinrothrock@infosec …, MediaPost, @grantmcconnaughey@threads.net, @sarahprz@threads.net, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @pfrazee.com, @emilyliu.me and @bsky.app, more at Techmeme »

Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz:
Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio streamer called Spoon and a short video app called Vigloo, raised ~$89.3M from PUBG publisher Krafton

Discussion: The Information, Game Developer, Games Press news, Forbes and KED Global

Thomas Baekdal / Baekdal:
Affiliate links are no longer an easy revenue source for news publishers, as Google downranks product recommendations from non-specialized outlets

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into how personal data in public X posts was used to train xAI's Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and the US

Financial Times:
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence raised $2B led by Greenoaks at a $32B valuation; SSI last raised $1B at a $5B valuation in September 2024

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