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Max Tani / Semafor:
At an internal meeting, NYT editors shared what they thought of internal and external feedback, “explicit threats from Trump about us in the media”, and more — The Scoop — With the 2024 presidential election a few weeks away, one question was top of mind for staff at The New York Times …
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Washington Post:
Pointing at media personnel during a rally, Trump says “someone would have to shoot through the fake news” to hit the bulletproof glass and “I don't mind that” — Trump's latest comments were an escalation of violent language he and his supporters have used in recent days.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q3 digital subscribers hit 260K, for 11.9M in total, digital ad revenue rose 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic turned its first profit — The Times reported steady growth in digital subscriptions in the third quarter and a profit for The Athletic for the first time since it acquired the sports site in 2022.
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Reuters, @tvgrimreaper, @benjstrauss, @benmullin and CNBC
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The New York Times Company:
The NYT reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $640.2M, subscription revenue up 14.2% YoY to $322.2M, and operating profit up 20.7% YoY to $76.7M — NEW YORK, November 4, 2024 - The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today third- quarter 2024 results. Key Highlights
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Bloomberg and @aulia@mementomori.social
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Times Tech Guild, representing NYT developers, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise — The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times's digital operation.
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Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans — Calling US book bannings ‘tragic for young people,’ PEN America, four days before the 2024 US elections, cites a one-year 200-percent increase in such censorship.
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PEN America, Maryland Matters, UPI, DNyuz, Publishers Weekly, Orlando Sentinel and Associated Press
Ross Raihala / Twin Cities:
Q&A with Aaron Rupar on leaving Vox to start Public Notice on Substack, watching ~400 Trump rallies to share clips with his 989K followers on X, and more — He now has nearly a million followers on X and a successful Substack newsletter — If you follow presidential politics online …
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@aaron.rupar@threads.net and @aaron.rupar@threads.net
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Source: NBC gave the Trump campaign free commercial time in response to Harris' SNL appearance, including an unusual ad during Sunday's NASCAR coverage — Trump appeared in spots that aired during Sunday's coverage of both sporting events on NBC, speaking directly to the camera.
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Mediaite, The Hill, HuffPost, The Western Journal, @garymarcus, The Gateway Pundit, @alexweprin, @daniel_foster_x, @brianstelter, Twitchy, IJR, Scripps News, New York Post, The Wrap, Washington Examiner, The Atlantic, Bleeding Cool News, DNyuz, The Independent, Forbes, Fox News, TVNewsCheck, Awful Announcing and Public
Fox:
Fox Corp reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $3.6B, affiliate revenue up 6% YoY to $1.8B, ad revenue up 11% YoY to $1.3B due to political ads, and $832M net income — NEW YORK, NY, November 4, 2024 - Fox Corporation (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX; “FOX” or the “Company") today reported financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2024.
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The Wrap, Variety, Reuters, TVNewsCheck, Deadline, @tvgrimreaper, The Hollywood Reporter, @jbflint, @jbflint, @pkafka, @jbflint, @jbflint, @jbflint and DNyuz
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah plans to call on the UK government to “regulate for growth” and say that “the fight is on” to protect programming by UK broadcasters — Samir Shah wants regulatory regime improved so public service broadcasters can act with ‘agility, flexibility, and pace’
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@knittedkittie, @alexandergardin, Deadline and The Guardian
Sarah Kessler / New York Times:
Q&A with Kay Koplovitz on her transition to becoming a VC with Springboard after selling USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more — Kay Koplovitz still remembers her first negotiation. Her family was moving from one suburb of Milwaukee to another …
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- Helena Torras on LinkedIn, more at Techmeme »
Rob Davies / The Guardian:
Earlier in 2024, Sky found it had accidentally underpaid its ad partners, including Paramount and WBD, and now faces a bill for hundreds of millions of pounds — Sky Media will have to recompense business partners after discovering it had miscalculated what it owed them
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