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11:30 AM 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.
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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  —  Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.
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)."
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 …
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.
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.
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  —  Bluesky, the social networking startup now nearing 10 million users thanks to X's ban in Brazil, will now allow users to share videos …
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.
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
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  —  As it gets ready to kick off its third season of exclusive streams of Thursday Night Football, Prime Video is rolling …
 
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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
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
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage”
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Keith Campbell / Asheville Watchdog:
An interview with former Washington Post Editor Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos' purchase of the outlet, Trump's election in 2016, and his memoir, Collision of Power
Discussion: r/Journalism
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
A US district judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, set to take effect on October 1, saying the law likely violates the 1A
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
A group of Democratic senators asks the FTC and DOJ to probe whether AI tools that summarize online content like news may amount to anticompetitive practices
 

 
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o
 
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