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2:40 PM ET, October 17, 2024

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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Prabhakar Raghavan will leave his role overseeing Google search and ads products, to be replaced by Nick Fox; Raghavan will become Chief Technologist  —  Prabhakar Raghavan, the most senior Google executive overseeing its search engine and ads products, is leaving the role after a four-year tenure leading …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Sun begins rolling out a registration wall asking users to create an account and seems to be applying it mainly to content by its best-known writers  —  The Sun has begun rolling out a registration wall asking users to sign up for free to read certain stories.
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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Industry forums indicate payouts from Adobe to contributors to Adobe Stock, used to train AI, range widely from two to four figures for major video contributors  —  Adobe thinks it has found a cure for AI job anxiety: cash.  But first...  • ASML is being questioned by Dutch authorities …
Billy Binion / Reason:
The US Supreme Court revives the case of citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, who is suing Texas officials for her arrest over asking questions of police  —  Priscilla Villarreal's case is about whether certain reporters have more robust free speech rights than others.
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
ByteDance's publishing imprint 8th Note Press is expanding into print and plans to release 10-15 books per year, after launching as an ebook publisher in 2023  —  ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
An independent report finds Australia's Nine has systemic issues with abuse of power, discrimination, and sexual harassment; Nine pledges to make changes  —  Nine board commits to implementing all recommendations for a ‘reset of culture’  — Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Prime Video announces a one-night special on US election results starting at 5pm Nov. 5, hosted by Brian Williams, in Amazon's first news video investment  —  - To-date, Amazon and most of its Big Tech peers have avoided producing their own real-time news coverage, which is both expensive …
Paul Linford / HoldtheFrontPage:
The National Union of Journalists calls the BBC's cuts “a damaging assault on journalism”; cuts include a net loss of 130 jobs and the end of tech show Click  —  The BBC has been accused of an “assault on journalism” after announcing a further raft of cuts to its services.
 
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
In an email to staff, the BBC says it has abandoned the recruitment process for its first ever royal editor, a position announced in December 2023
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Social media users criticize TMZ for publishing a photo purportedly showing the body of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died in a fall; TMZ removed it
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBCUniversal plans to add its regional sports channels to Peacock as soon as early 2025, streaming Boston, Philadelphia, and Northern California teams
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Economist VP of Performance Marketing Tom McCave says the magazine has rolled out free student subscriptions as part of a bid to “future-proof” the business
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Ken Ritter / Associated Press:
A US judge sentences former elected official Robert Telles to at least 28 years in prison for killing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German in 2022
Emma Roth / The Verge:
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
 

 
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Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca:
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames

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Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever

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Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised
 
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