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11:20 PM ET, October 5, 2024

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Victoria Gomelsky / New York Times:
Watches of Switzerland Group, one of the world's largest watch retailers, acquires the watch enthusiast website Hodinkee, says coverage will remain independent  —  Neither Benjamin Clymer, its founder, nor the Watches of Switzerland Group would disclose terms, but they stressed that coverage would continue to be independent.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with ex-NBCUniversal executive Evan Shapiro on why streaming is a “shitty” business, Netflix ads, and why Hollywood must band together to thrive  —  After an Iberseries & Platino Industria keynote, the “media universe cartographer” explains why streaming is a “sh**ty” …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mullenweg says WordPress.org “belongs to me personally”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, the WordPress Foundation, and Automattic  —  The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the nonprofit backing it, and the commercial arm owned by Automattic are blurring.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta unveils Movie Gen, which creates up to 16-second videos from a text prompt, available to some staff and partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025  —  Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt  —  Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …
ProPublica:
Sources and records: Trump Media has forced out its COO, CPO, and other executives after internal allegations that CEO Devin Nunes is mismanaging the company  —  Several people involved with the former president's company, operator of Truth Social, believe the departures …
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral for its AI-generated “deep dive” podcasts with two hosts  —  With this Google tool, you can now listen to a show about any topic you could possibly imagine.  You won't believe your ears.
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Filing: Nexstar cuts its chief revenue officer position, and CRO Michael Strober will leave the company on October 30; he was hired after Nexstar bought The CW  —  Nexstar Media Group, which hired Turner veteran Michael Strober as EVP and Chief Revenue Officer in 2022, has eliminated his position.
Discussion: The Desk, TVNewsCheck and Variety
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Leading UK cultural figures decry Observer's planned sale to Tortoise as “a betrayal” of liberal journalism; Guardian, Observer staff consider striking  —  Guardian and Observer journalists have agreed they may take industrial action in protest at plans to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media.
Karen Raugust / Publishers Weekly:
Penguin renews its master publishing deal with BBC Studios for Bluey books; the books have sold 20M+ copies in 22 languages worldwide, including 8.5M in the US  —  Penguin has renewed its master publishing deal with BBC Studios for the hit preschool animated series Bluey.
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
YouTube says it fixed an issue that appeared to affect thousands of accounts, incorrectly flagging channels as spam, removing them, and disabling subscriptions  —  YouTube confirmed Friday that a bug mistakenly removing seemingly thousands of accounts wrongly marked as sharing spam and deceptive content was finally fixed.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A UK judge rules that GB News can challenge an Ofcom ruling about a Q&A show with Rishi Sunak in a court hearing, but says Ofcom can keep pursuing sanctions  —  But the broadcaster failed in its bid to temporarily block Ofcom from publishing a sanction against it.
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Warner Music Group and Meta strike a multiyear licensing deal across all Meta platforms, including WhatsApp for the first time  —  The deal will cover WhatsApp for the first time and includes an agreement to jointly tackle issues around generative AI on Meta's platforms.
 
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems
Pat Dooris / KGW-TV:
Willamette Week's owner plans to launch the Oregon Journalism Project as nonprofit news orgs aim to fill the void left by Oregon's receding print publications
Discussion: Oregonian
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Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
Google says it'll stop linking to news and drop its deals with outlets in New Zealand if the country passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Thomson Reuters agrees to sell FindLaw, which provides legal information, to Internet Brands, which owns WebMD and more, in a deal expected to close in Q4 2024
Discussion: Thomson Reuters
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users