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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In an earnings call, David Zaslav says the Trump Administration may be more merger friendly, enabling a “real positive and accelerated impact on this industry” — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Donald Trump's re-election as president bodes well for media M&A.
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Deadline:
WBD report Q3 revenue down 3% YoY to $9.62B, adjusted EBITDA down 18% YoY to $2.4B, and net income of $135M, as its box offices numbers drop
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, Benzinga, The Streamable, Front Office Sports and Adweek
Amanda Gerut / Fortune:
Streams Charts: Election Day livestreams generated nearly 84M hours watched with 80.6% on YouTube; Fox News was the top outlet with a record 1.14M+ peak viewers — A man seen watching the broadcasting of the U.S. election results at the restaurant in Bangkok.
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Tatiana Stronskaya on LinkedIn, Streams Charts, Tubefilter and DNyuz
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Perplexity's US election hub offered helpful, real-time election insights and maps on November 5, linking to reliable resources and providing historical context
Lili Loofbourow / Washington Post:
A look at Amazon Prime Video's election night show, with former NBC News anchor Brian Williams, a wide array of news team members and guests, and a surreal set
Deadline:
Nielsen: 42.3M viewers watched election night coverage across 18 US TV networks, down 25% from 2020; Amazon Prime Video was not included in the measurement
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Associated Press, Breitbart, DNyuz, The Wrap, MediaPost, @jeremymbarr, @alexweprin, Barrett Media, Tv Technology, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Axios, Adweek, The Desk, Variety, Nielsen, @benjaminmullin@threads.net, TVNewsCheck, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap and Media Play News
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
How conservatives nurtured and funded a vast network of online influencers and creators, and how structural disadvantages prevent the left from replicating it — Minutes after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, Dana White took the stage to thank the influencers who helped lead Trump to victory.
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MediaPost, The Information, Fast Company, Taylor Lorenz on LinkedIn, Wired, @claireeshaffer, @chronotope, @chronotope, @benghazi_ebooks, @rebexxxxa, @ncblake, @ethangach, @avecruth@threads.net, @dansinker@omfg.town, @joeholder_, @drjoehanson@threads.net, @realvanjackson, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, @cheyennehuntca, Le Monde.fr, @sowmyak, @walthickey, @chronotope, Ad Age, @karavoght, @ncblake, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, The Hollywood Reporter, @maxwelltani, @claireeshaffer, @iamnickreynolds, @bernstein, Aaron Huertas on LinkedIn, @michaelbishop.me and @benghazi_ebooks
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Austin Fuller / Current:
How public media newsrooms in Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, and Oklahoma are enhancing their statehouse journalism with funding from CPB — With a new round of CPB funding for state government coverage, public media newsrooms in seven more states are hiring reporters and building collaborations to strengthen statehouse reporting.
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TVNewsCheck, Reuters, @kosuradio, @cory_gaines, @coreyhutchins and Austin Fuller on LinkedIn
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit by Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI over AI training, for now, saying the outlets couldn't show enough harm — A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles …
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@reuterslegal and Press Gazette, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages — TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts …
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Billboard, TikTok, Spotify, Digital Music News, Music Business Worldwide, The Verge and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Nine Entertainment's acting CEO predicts AU$100M in cuts over the next two years and says staffers found to have engaged in harassment will be “held to account” — ‘There will be change at Nine and individuals will be held to account for behaviour of this nature’ acting CEO tells AGM
Discussion:
news.com.au, Mumbrella, Australian Financial Review and Sydney Morning Herald
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Richard Winfield, who worked to protect reporters' sources, convinced judges to allow cameras in court, and more as general counsel for the AP, died at age 91 — As a lawyer for The Associated Press and other news outlets, he challenged efforts to muzzle reporters and organized lawyers to promote free expression around the world.
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TVNewsCheck
Brian Stelter / CNN:
After Trump won, US journalists question what a “red wave” election says about the information environment and the media's credibility, influence, and audience — New York CNN — — Donald Trump's return to power is a hinge point for the American media - in ways big, small, and to be determined.
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@kennysmith@mstdn.social, KDFX-TV, Decider, CT Mirror and GeekWire
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Lionsgate's CEO calls Q2 results “disappointing”, with revenue of $948.6M and a net loss of $163.3M; Starz lost 800K North American streaming subscribers QoQ — Executives at Lionsgate did not attempt to sugarcoat the company's financial results for its latest financial quarter.
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The Wrap, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and Lionsgate
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
[Thread] Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they will shift from three days a week in office to five days a week by June 2, and by February for some managers — NEWS: Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis tells staff they will be returning to the office “five days a week in the coming months.”
Discussion:
New York Times, @scotian.bsky.social, @benmullin, @benmullin, @benmullin, @juwanthecurator.bsky.social and Washingtonian
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK-based Digitalbox buys three entertainment and lifestyle sites from GRV Media; GRV's executive chairman says his company has pivoted to sports journalism — Digitalbox wants a niche in entertainment while GRV Media doubles down on sports. — Online publisher Digitalbox has bought three sites …
WashPostPR / Washington Post:
WaPo launches Ask The Post AI, an experimental generative AI tool that gives curated article results and summary answers based on stories published since 2016 — Today, The Washington Post debuted “Ask The Post AI” a generative AI tool leveraging the publication's deeply-sourced …
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Gwanhoo Lee on LinkedIn, Washington Post and @kyefox.com
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