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6:30 PM ET, October 7, 2024

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who has mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, readies a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes  —  The vice president and Democratic nominee has set a slew of media appearances this week, including a live interview with 'The View …
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Kamala Harris' appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast shows how the media environment has changed, as campaigns target those who don't consume political media  —  The media environment is changing and campaign strategies are adjusting with it  —  Democratic operatives and the Beltway media rarely …
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The Guardian:
A profile of the New York Sun owner Dovid Efune, amid concerns from Telegraph's staff about his extreme X posts on the Israel-Hamas conflict  —  Alarm among staff at potential new owner, who has backed fighting Hamas ‘with every report and headline’  —  A little over a decade ago Dovid Efune …
Discussion: The Times, Telegraph and RTÉ
Committee to Protect Journalists:
At least 128 journalists and media workers, all but five of them Palestinian, have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in the year since the October 7 attack  —  One year in, Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza has exacted an unprecedented and horrific toll on Palestinian journalists and the region's media landscape.
Tess DeMeyer / New York Times:
The Athletic's NBA reporter Shams Charania is leaving to join ESPN, after ESPN's NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski left the network in September  —  NBA insider Shams Charania is leaving The Athletic to join ESPN, he said Monday.  —  Charania's move came after longtime NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retired …
Digiday:
TikTok launches Smart+, a new AI-powered ad tool that competes with Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+, automating ad targeting and optimization  —  TikTok's cultural clout is undeniable, but the ad dollars?  Not quite there — yet.  —  That's where Smart+ comes in …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The number of outlets blocking OpenAI's GPTBot has decreased since Dotdash Meredith and Condé Nast announced licensing deals with OpenAI in May and August  —  OpenAI's spree of licensing agreements is paying off already—at least in terms of getting publishers to lower their guard.
Discussion: @palewire and @knibbs
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
How SmartLess, a podcast by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, became a rare cultural tent pole that continues to thrive after its pandemic birth  —  Started during the pandemic, this venture is the first step in a media empire being built by the actors Sean Hayes, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added 1M+ paid subscribers over the past year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid  —  Seven years since its launch, the newsletter platform Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 agree to a deal with Amazon to put free streamer Freely, developed by joint venture Everyone TV, on Amazon's smart TVs  —  Agreement with US tech company is set to provide a boost to broadcasters' new platform Freely  —  BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 …
Olesia Safronova / Bloomberg:
Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters on Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday  —  - Russian state media reported ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack  — Disruption coincided with Russian president's 72nd birthday
 
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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
[Thread] CBS News leaders told staff that Tony Dokoupil's interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Israel-Hamas war did not meet impartiality standards
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Former NYT investigative reporter David Burnham, whose work uncovering corruption in the NYPD during the 1970s inspired the movie Serpico, dies at the age of 91
Wall Street Journal:
eMarketer expects Google's share of the US search ad market to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others make gains
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
Discussion: @tvgrimreaper
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Victoria Gomelsky / New York Times:
Watches of Switzerland Group, one of the world's largest watch retailers, buys watch enthusiast website Hodinkee and says its coverage will remain independent
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress.org “belongs to me personally”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, WordPress Foundation, and Automattic
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
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
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