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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Business Insider founder Henry Blodget says he is leaving BI's board, will remain an adviser and contribute occasional columns, and plans to write a novel — Business Insider founder Henry Blodget sent out the following on Friday: — Team, — Seventeen years ago …
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@samro, @jfberke, @walthickey and @benmullin
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
News Corp reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $2.58B, net income up 148% YoY to $144M, Dow Jones revenue up 3% YoY to $552M, and WSJ subscriptions up 7% YoY to 4.3M — The Murdoch-led media company reported 5.9 million Dow Jones subscribers, up 11% — News Corp., the home to The Wall Street Journal …
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The Times, News Corporation and Reuters
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Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp names Lavanya Chandrashekar as its next CFO, succeeding Susan Panuccio, starting January 1 with an annual $1.4M base salary — Chandrashekar most recently served as CFO at Diageo — News Corp named Lavanya Chandrashekar as its next chief financial officer, succeeding Susan Panuccio …
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News Corporation
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis tells staff they'll be expected to work from the office five days a week, instead of three, by June 2, and by February 3 for managers — All employees at The Post will be expected to return to the office by June 2. Managers must be back in the office full time by Feb. 3.
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TVNewsCheck, @benmullin, @patriciaeguino, @benmullin, @benmullin, Washingtonian, @film_girl@threads.net, @talia.barrington@threads.net, @ellaeliz@threads.net, @mkarolian@threads.net, New York Post, Benjamin Mullin on LinkedIn, @scotian.bsky.social, @juwanthecurator.bsky.social and MediaPost
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 …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at Votebeat's use of a Slack channel to answer questions for journalists on the election, connecting reporters with experts through at least December 8 — “The problem with voting stories is that the people who make themselves most available don't know what the hell they're talking about.”
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Civic News Company on LinkedIn and @jessicahuseman
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The UK government launches a forum that includes the BBC, Sky, and Ofcom to examine ways of preserving linear TV for older and underprivileged audiences — The UK government plans to examine ways of sustainably preserving linear television for older and underprivileged audiences amid the streaming revolution.
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The Hollywood Reporter, @francarnell.bsky.social and GOV.UK
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US federal judge dismisses Raw Story and AlterNet's copyright lawsuit against OpenAI over LLM 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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The Wrap, Gizmodo, The Hill, The Decoder, Windows Central, @rustybrick, Music Ally, CCN.com, @carnage4life@threads.net and @reuterslegal, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
US prosecutors claim a second Iranian-directed plot existed to assassinate US-based activist and journalist Masih Alinejad, along with a plot to kill Trump — The allegation came in a complaint that said Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn activist, had been the target of a second assassination attempt.
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New York Post, NBC News, UPI, The Times of Israel, Daily Mail, Forbes, @timobrien, @leorsapir, @alinejadmasih, Semafor, The Hill, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, NBC Bay Area, Metro.co.uk, WJXX-TV, ABC7, freebeacon.com, Fox News and The Sun
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Paramount Q3: revenue down 6% YoY to $6.73B, operating income down 43% to $337M, DTC revenue up 10% to $1.86B, DTC adjusted OIBDA of $49M, 72M Paramount+ subs — Paramount Global posted mixed third quarter financial numbers as its TV and film divisions dipped, but bosses are pointing …
Ben Smith / @semaforben:
In a note to staff, Roula Khalaf says US editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is leaving the FT for Semafor and will be replaced by Derek Brower from December 1 — A huge hire for @semafor Business, and more news to come on this front.
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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
AMC Networks report Q3 revenue down 5.9% YoY to $599.6M, operating income down 22% YoY to $93.7M, 11.8M streaming subscribers, $316M in subscription revenue — Subscribers to AMC+ grew 5% in the third quarter of 2024 and now total 11.8 million — AMC Networks posted disappointing earnings results during …
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The Streamable, Deadline, Variety, AMC Networks Inc., Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter and Benzinga
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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Adweek, Semafor, @briantylercohen, @tonywinton@threads.net, @ncblake, @ncblake, @cheyennehuntca, @benghazi_ebooks, @benghazi_ebooks, @claireeshaffer, @chronotope, @chronotope, @chronotope, @claireeshaffer, @iamnickreynolds, @ethangach, @realvanjackson, @sowmyak, @karavoght, @joeholder_, @rebexxxxa, @maxwelltani, @walthickey, @bernstein, The Independent, @renee.diresta@threads.net, Instapundit, Taylor Lorenz on LinkedIn, Aaron Huertas on LinkedIn, MediaPost, @drjoehanson@threads.net, @avecruth@threads.net, Fast Company, The Free Press, Le Monde.fr, The Hollywood Reporter, @michaelbishop.me, @dansinker@omfg.town, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, Ad Age, Wired and The Information
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