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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, sets out on 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
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Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered — Offer could end 16-month battle to control the conservative British national newspaper — New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is closing …
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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 …
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 — SCOOP / THREAD @PuckNews: CBS NEWS has been roiling after a CBS Mornings interview in which anchor Tony Dokoupil pressed Ta-Nehisi Coates over his pro-Palestinian framing of Israel-Palestine conflict. The interview was celebrated by many—"tense and substantive," per WaPo—but
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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.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Amazon India completes its MX Player acquisition and merges it with Amazon miniTV to create new free streaming service Amazon MX Player — STREAMING SYNERGIES … The merged platform has over 250 million unique users in India, according to Amazon. — The service offers original shows like …
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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
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 …
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Digiday:
TikTok launches Smart+, an AI-powered ad tool that takes on Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+, automating creative, ad targeting, and optimization — TikTok's cultural clout is undeniable, but the ad dollars? Not quite there — yet. — That's where Smart+ comes in …
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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.
CBS News:
60 Minutes says Trump backed out of an interview last week because it planned to fact check and Trump needed an apology for his 2020 interview with Lesley Stahl — It's been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October.
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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.
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