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5:50 PM ET, October 15, 2024

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Spotify is paying hundreds of millions for audiobooks annually; US audiobook users average five more hours on the app in the 60 days after starting a book  —  - Without Spotify, the audiobook industry in the U.S. grew 14% in unit sales between Q4 2022 and Q4 2023, according to Bookstat.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Five ex-Pitchfork journalists launch online subscription music outlet Hearing Things, aiming to capture Pitchfork's independent spirit, starting at $70 per year  —  After the popular publication was folded into GQ, a group of them is striking out on its own.  One of the first orders of business: doing away with album scores.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Internal memo: the BBC plans to cut 155 BBC News jobs, including closing Asian Network News and the HARDtalk program, to save £24M, or 4% of BBC News' budget  —  Broadcaster hopes move will save £24mn from budget, according to internal memo sent to staff
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The NYT sends a cease-and-desist letter to AI startup Perplexity to stop using its content; Perplexity says it is “interested in working with every” publisher  —  Publisher demands that Perplexity stop accessing its content.  Startup isn't interested “in being anyone's antagonist,” CEO says.
Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Tina Brown, who became synonymous with Manhattan media in the 1980s and 1990s, launches Fresh Hell, a weekly Substack diary newsletter in “notebook form”  —  Tina Brown's decision to join Substack is a coup for the newsletter company, which considers prestigious names to be magnets …
Associated Press:
Taliban-run media stops showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws, sparking press freedom concerns  —  Taliban run-media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws, an official confirmed Tuesday.
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Condé Nast reaches a tentative deal with The New Yorker union, ending a strike threat at the mag's annual festival; the union plans a final vote in a few weeks  —  The company's human resources department announced a tentative deal on Monday, a little over a week after the labor group threatened a work stoppage.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The Athletic names Fubo as its first streaming partner in a multi-year deal to integrate Fubo initially into live game blogs and then into newsletters and more  —  The partnership will see Fubo integrated throughout The Athletic's website  —  The New York Times sports publisher …
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Kansas City's news nonprofit The Beacon is shutting down its Wichita newsroom, three years after its launch with support from the Wichita Foundation  —  “We've realized that we can't do it all, and have made the decision to no longer have a staffed newsroom in Wichita.”
Discussion: @sarahscire and The Beacon
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
WBD plans to launch Max in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand on November 19, with pricing details to be announced  —  Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand also among new countries where you'll be able to see “Dune: Prophecy”
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed controls, an improved miniplayer on iOS and Android, updated playlists, a sleep timer, and more  —  YouTube is making official a number of updates that it's been testing in recent months, like the new miniplayer and several design updates.
 
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Mark Savage / BBC:
NewJeans star Hanni gives a tearful testimony on workplace harassment to South Korean lawmakers, alleging that the entertainment agency Hybe undermined her band
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify starts rolling out music videos in beta for Premium subscribers in 85 additional markets, after introducing the feature in 12 markets earlier in 2024
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UK tech journalist Steve O'Hear, who worked for TechCrunch for over a decade before leaving to work in tech in 2021, and had muscular dystrophy, died at age 49
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack on the Internet Archive on October 9 and a data breach
Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel:
Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first “commercially safe” text-to-video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Deportes and NBCUniversal's Telemundo will each produce separate Spanish-language broadcasts of Super Bowl LIX in 2025, an unusual arrangement
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Legendary Entertainment buys out Wanda Group's remaining 60% equity stake in the studio; Legendary board will be evenly split between management and Apollo
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Filing: the UK's PA Media Group reports 2023 revenue up 6% YoY to £112.1M and operating profit up 53% YoY to £8.3M, as it grows through revenue diversification
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

Decrypt:
Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry
 
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