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Sources: Greek media company Antenna Group is in early talks to acquire Time from Marc Benioff, who bought the magazine in 2018 for $180M — The Greek media company Antenna Group is in talks to acquire Time Inc. from Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump sues CBS News in a Texas court, claiming CBS engaged in election interference “through malicious, deceptive” editing of its 60 Minutes Harris interview — Former President Trump is suing CBS News over a “60 Minutes” interview it broadcast with Vice President Harris earlier …
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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Charter says some cable plans will have access to ad-supported versions of Max, Disney+, Peacock, ESPN+, and other streamers at no extra cost by early 2025 — TV Select customers will be able to watch the ad-supported versions of Max, Disney+, Peacock Premium, Paramount+ and more at no additional cost
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StreamTV Insider, MediaPost, Advanced Television and @2xaught7.bsky.social
Jack Neff / Ad Age:
A survey of US advertisers and agencies: 49% said alternative currencies were just as effective as Nielsen and 36% said they were more effective than Nielsen — Nielsen remains dominant, but a growing number of advertisers have tried alternatives and most find them equal or better
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est. — iPhone sales tick up 5.5% in September quarter, above analyst forecasts … The company reported revenue of $94.93 billion …
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Financial Times:
BBC World Service secures a 25% increase in its government grant for 2025/26; sources: £27M has been agreed, on top of baseline funding of £104M this year — Executives have warned that cuts have left the UK struggling to counter a rise in Russian and Chinese propaganda
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Fubo reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $386.2M, a net loss of $54.7M, down from $84.4M in Q3 2023, and 1.6M subscribers in North America, up 9% YoY — Revenue in the period ended September 30 increased 20% over the same frame a year ago to reach $386.2 million. Losses narrowed to 17 cents a share from 29 cents a year ago.
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Sportico, The Streamable, ir.fubo.tv, The Hollywood Reporter, Cord Cutters News and Benzinga
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B — Amazon reported its third-quarter 2024 earnings, revealing ad sales rose 19% year over year amid the company's push to insert ads into Prime Video.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Robert Kagan and Danielle Allen, who resigned from WaPo over its decision not to issue a presidential endorsement, join The Atlantic as contributing writers — New York CNN — — Two veteran writers who resigned from The Washington Post over its non-endorsement decision are joining The Atlantic.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporters from the UK, Singapore, Iran, Japan, Haiti, Brazil, Italy, and Hungary describe the complexities of covering US elections for various audiences — Foreign reporters on covering the Americanest election imaginable. — Richard Hall — THE INDEPENDENT (UK)
@scngguild:
[Thread] The SCNG Guild reaches a tentative deal with management at Alden's Southern California News Group, averting a potential strike — 🚨🚨We've reached a tentative agreement! Our Nov. 2 rally in Santa Ana is canceled and we are lifting our strike deadline for now. We will hold a ratification vote soon. Here are some of the gains we've made:
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Kate Lindsay / Embedded:
Q&A with Semafor's Max Tani on left-wing criticism claiming media doesn't cover some news, which he attributes to personalized feeds and passive consumption — Semafor's Max Tani on a common Twitter gripe — Embedded is your essential guide to what's good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci.
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google — The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters
OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters
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