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9:00 AM ET, October 8, 2024

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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
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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Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter:   In a podcast trailer, Ta-Nehisi Coates says CBS' Tony Dokoupil commandeered the Israel-Hamas war interview and “I don't think he did Nate and Gail a service”
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Channel 4 reports 2023 revenue down 10.5% YoY to £1.02B and a pre-tax deficit of £52M, from a pre-tax £20M surplus in 2022, citing a “prolonged” UK ad downturn  —  CEO Alex Mahon lauded gains on YouTube and beyond as the U.K. broadcaster posted its annual report …
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Channel 4 announces its first overnight US election coverage in 32 years, with guests including Boris Johnson and Stormy Daniels, and a partnership with CNN  —  UK broadcaster Channel 4 has booked Stormy Daniels and Boris Johnson to feature as guests on its first live U.S. election night show in 32 years.
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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.
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.
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
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 …
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
 
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Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with S-Town creator Brian Reed on his new Question Everything podcast about journalism, the lawsuit against S-Town, the Trojan Horse Affair podcast, more
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
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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
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Matthew Jordan / The Conversation:
As Congress tries to force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest, it should push licensed stations to abide by public interest standards
Discussion: Barrett Media and Radio Ink
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
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
 

 
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