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10:20 PM ET, September 17, 2024

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The Guardian:
Guardian Media Group announces talks to sell The Observer, acquired in 1993, to Tortoise Media, which would invest £25M in The Observer over the next five years  —  Guardian Media Group announces it is in negotiations with Tortoise Media over world's oldest Sunday newspaper
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Snapchat gets a redesign that pares down five tabs to three, including a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators  —  Snapchat is undergoing its biggest redesign in years by simplifying from five to three tabs: one for messages and Stories with friends …
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Katie Campione / Deadline:
Union members at Powerhouse Animation Studios in Austin ratify their first contract; the local union affiliated with the Animation Guild represents 129 workers  —  The Animation Guild now officially, successfully represents animation workers in a right-to-work state.
Discussion: @deadline
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Five contestants in Beast Games sue MrBeast and Amazon, claiming unpaid wages, emotional distress, the production failed to prevent sexual harassment, and more  —  Lawsuit on behalf of five unnamed participants seeks class-action status  —  A class-action lawsuit against YouTube star MrBeast …
Rachel Tashjian / Washington Post:
A look at the growth of fashion and shopping on Substack, including coverage of New York Fashion Week and Substack's plans for a Paris Fashion Week event  —  The newsletter platform has become a place to discuss, offer advice on and celebrate shopping — and make a lot of money doing so.
New York Times:
Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost privacy and limit intrusive effects for under-18 users, including making accounts private by default  —  The app, which is popular with teenagers, introduced new settings and features aimed at addressing inappropriate online contact and content …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Air Mail, founded in 2019 by Graydon Carter, hires investment bank Raine Group to explore a sale; talks with Standard Investments are no longer active  —  The company, founded in 2019, is known for its weekend newsletter of deeply reported features, travel recommendations and shopping tips.
Discussion: @mediaevan
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
The Atlantic poses as a magazine of thoughtful ideas, but its writers get away with sloppy, unsupported arguments, and its errors are long-lasting and insidious  —  Regular Current Affairs readers know that I have a tendency to make grumbling remarks about a magazine called The Atlantic.
Ian Wylie / The Guardian:
German nonprofit Media in Cooperation and Transition is providing sanctuary for exiled journalists exposing human rights abuses in their own countries  —  As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abuses
The Guardian:
Australia's ABC removes a 2022 video of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, admitting it was “incorrectly edited” after accusations ABC had added gunshot sounds  —  News director Justin Stevens confirms in Melbourne Press Club speech broadcaster has removed the clip and is ‘looking into how this happened’
Miranda Murray / Reuters:
The German cartel office says RTL and Paramount have withdrawn their bid to merge their respective kid-focused TV networks, Super RTL and Nickelodeon  —  German broadcaster RTL and Paramount (PARA.O) have withdrawn their bid to merge Super RTL, a children's television network, with Nickelodeon, the German cartel office said on Tuesday.
 
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Sam Sabin / Axios:
Microsoft: starting in late August, Russian cyber operatives focused on Harris' campaign, with disinfo including videos spread by a site posing as a news outlet
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs two bills restricting the use of AI replicas of performers, building on protections SAG-AFTRA sought in its 2023 strike
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Gray Media forms a new regional sports broadcast network that will reach 4M homes and air games of New Orleans Pelicans in LA, MS, and AL for free, from October
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Nikki Haley is launching a radio talk show next week on SiriusXM's Triumph channel, set to air once a week on Wednesdays at least through January
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Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
How Netflix staged a remarkable recovery since its 2022 stock crash, adding 45M+ subscribers via a password crackdown and gaining an edge over Hollywood rivals
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the Emmys averaged 6.87M viewers on ABC, up 54% from the delayed 2023 Emmys on Fox that aired in January 2024, which was an all-time low for the awards
NBC News:
Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies