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Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
An interview with Taylor Lorenz about “dancing on the grave” of legacy media, the creator economy coming for journalism, resigning from WaPo, and more — A reporter known for chronicling the “extremely online” is making the leap to the creator economy. The most surprising thing is that she waited this long.
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NPR, Talking Biz News, Feed Me, The Present Age, @nikostratis, @xoxogossipgita, @xoxogossipgita, @nikostratis, @damintoell, @cd_hooks, @emilyctamkin, @shakeelhashim, @tinywriterlaura, @xoxogossipgita, @chaykak, @taylorlorenz, @femme_thoughts, @michaelluo, @nikostratis, @taylorlorenz, @mollytaft and @taylorlorenz
Bloomberg:
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services — Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
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Deadline, TVLine, The Streamable, UPI, The Information, NewscastStudio, Media Play News, Quartz, Neowin, The Verge, Digital Trends, Benzinga, About Amazon, Android Police, Cord Cutters News, The Desk, Reuters, 9to5Mac, The Wrap, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, TVNewsCheck and FlatpanelsHD, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV plans to launch a free, ad-supported streaming service called MyFree DirecTV on November 15 as a mobile app and on some streaming devices and smart TVs — FAST service to bow Nov. 15 featuring ‘Duck Dynasty,’ Fox Weather, Tastemade and more — DirecTV is shifting into the FAST lane …
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The Desk, Adweek, The Streamable, MediaPost, TVNewsCheck, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, Media Play News, Streaming Better and Cord Cutters News
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian launches product recommendation site The Filter following a trial lasting several months, as it chases affiliate revenue — The Guardian has begun publishing product guides featuring links to shopping websites to target a growing business of affiliate revenue.
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The Guardian
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Filing: the FT reports 2023 revenue up 5% YoY to £444M, operating profit down 33% YoY to £9M, and 1.4M paid subscribers, of which 1.3M were digital subscribers — The Financial Times made more than half a billion pounds in revenue for the first time in its history in 2023.
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The Times, Talking Biz News and Telegraph
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount's Shari Redstone backs CBS co-host Tony Dokoupil after execs criticized his work and says she lacks editorial control but “something needs to be done” — The mogul, who cut a deal to sell Paramount — including CBS — to Skydance earlier this year, weighed in on the topic on Wednesday.
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New York Times, CNN, Deadline, Reason, Adweek, TVNewsCheck, BizPac Review, @dylanbyers, Associated Press, @brianstelter, @benmullin, Newser, Axios, @brianstelter, New York Post, Washington Post, @claytravis, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @benmullin, JNS.org, Fox News, Jacobin, Los Angeles Times, Jewish Insider, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, @coreypein.bsky.social, The Wrap, HotAir, The New Arab, Breitbart, Wall Street Journal and Bossip
Tovia Smith / NPR:
A look at the bidding war for Alex Jones' Infowars and its parent company Free Speech Systems, where some would-be-buyers just want to bury it — Both fans and foes are getting in on the bidding war for Alex Jones' media company — or at least trying to. — Some harbor hopes …
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ThreeSixty Asset Advisors
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9 — Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
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PCMag, ZDNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, @mrboko1234, @brewster_kahle, Neowin, @vxunderground, @zelinarxy, @tgzerosugar, @aldanmarki, Türkiye Today, @_omoriboy, @sn_darkmeta, @brewster_kahle, @kaybrainrot, @brewster_kahle, @skellenaut, @leo_puglisi6, @vxunderground, Hackaday, 9to5Mac, @sn_darkmeta, @hanno@mastodon.social, @internetarchive, @genkiwastaken, TechCrunch, @brianroemmele, @haveibeenpwned, @lostmediabuster, Ars Technica, Wired, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, The Verge, The Register and Land Of Blackbirds …, more at Techmeme »
Gary Miles / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pulitzer winning investigative reporter and author Donald L. Barlett, half of the famous Barlett and Steele team at The Philadelphia Inquirer, dies at age 88 — Donald L. Barlett, 88, of Philadelphia, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Inquirer …
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Media Nation, New York Times, @hannahallam, @carylkauffman, @will_bunch, @amesalex, @danielrubin and Talking Biz News
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda accuses the government of blocking interviews and pressuring businesses not to advertise in a “systematic pressure” campaign — The editorial board of one of Ukraine's most respected media outlets, Ukrayinska Pravda, has accused President Volodymyr …
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pravda.com.ua and Voice of America
Priyanka.G / Reuters:
Spotify launches its free tier in South Korea after entering the market in 2021; South Korean artists have 5.8B+ average monthly streams on the platform — Spotify's (SPOT.N) free music and podcasts service option is now available in South Korea, the audio streaming platform said on Thursday, as it looks to widen its audience base.
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Billboard, Music Ally and Music Business Worldwide
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
The IAB, EFF, and other groups urge the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider an August decision that TikTok wasn't protected from liability by Section 23 — The Interactive Advertising Bureau and other business organizations are urging a federal appellate court to reconsider a recent ruling …
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@techfreedom
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