Mediagazer: Vice relaunches its print magazine, on hiatus since 2019, and debuts $10 per month and $4 per month subscriptions with access to paywalled content (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 — TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

The NYT aims to sell podcast subscriptions via Apple Podcasts and Spotify, requiring users to pay to access older episodes, starting Oct. for $6/mo. or $50/year — - “A big part of our strategy is building direct relationships with our customers,” said Ben Cotton, The Times' head of subscription growth.

Discussion: The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, The New York Times Company, 9to5Mac and @sarafischer

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:

Paramount's Pluto TV and M6+ strike a partnership that includes content channels and ad sales in France; French TV company M6 launched the AVOD platform in May — The strategic commercial and editorial partnership is designed to “scale and expand their free streaming and digital businesses in France.”

Discussion: Advanced Television, Broadband TV News, Variety, WORLD SCREEN, TVNewsCheck, Deadline and TVBEurope

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Reach CEO Jim Mullen says there is “too much power in the hands of platforms and their algorithms” and calls for regulation to make platforms pay for content — The chief executive of the UK's biggest commercial news publisher has called for big tech regulation so the platforms pay …

Discussion: Liverpool Echo and HoldtheFrontPage

New York Times:

How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls — An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs

Discussion: @simondowens@threads.net, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and @hanaatameez

Ryan Browne / CNBC:

Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Google to add its “caption AI” tool built on Vertex AI to Max to automatically generate captions for unscripted programming — Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Google to integrate the internet giant's AI technology …

Discussion: The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Variety, Quartz, The Verge, The Keyword, Google Cloud and @dfwsam.bsky.social, more at Techmeme »

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Memo: Paramount unveils “phase two” of layoffs and says 90% of them will be complete after this round, following its August plan to cut 15% of its US workforce — Paramount Global unveiled a second wave of staff cuts Tuesday morning, part of a larger bid by the owner of CBS …

Discussion: The Wrap, TVNewsCheck, Deadline, Advanced Television, Bloomberg, Deadline, Next TV and The Hollywood Reporter

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Trending Now, which offers AI-powered B2B newsletters, changes its logo after BuzzFeed sent a cease-and-desist letter over alleged copyright infringement — What happened next after Buzzfeed sent copyright warning letter to AI newsletter start-up Trending Now.

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more — One day after the Google TV Streamer hit stores, Roku is announcing its own latest streaming player.

David Ingram / NBC News:

TikTok permanently removes accounts associated with the parent organizations of Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing “covert influence operations” — Social media rivals Meta and YouTube have announced similar suspensions of Russian state media accounts this month.

Discussion: CNN, KSTP-TV, Engadget, Adweek, @alenapopova, @beefeater_fella and The Hill, more at Techmeme »

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

Vice relaunches its print magazine, on hiatus since 2019, and debuts $10 per month and $4 per month subscriptions with access to paywalled content — The publisher hopes to reach 10,000 subscribers by next spring — The digital media company Vice relaunched its print magazine and debuted …

Discussion: VICE

Jake Kanter / Deadline:

Sources: UK's Evening Standard has made plans to use AI to write reviews under the name of its former art critic of 30 years Brian Sewell, who died in 2015 — Deadline understands that London's historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial intelligence.

Discussion: @jscalzi@threads.net, @siddhantadlakha, @eddiehenryjames, @chrismoranuk, @_zeets, @sturgios, @wendyide, @willardfoxton and @nina_metz