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8:05 AM ET, November 25, 2024

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B  —  Annual revenues from copyrighted music hit almost $46bn last year, against $33.2bn for cinema
Geneva Abdul / The Guardian:
Internal email: the UK's Reach plans to merge staff at The Daily Mirror and celebrity magazine OK! to cut costs, but the move won't result in cutting of roles  —  Merging of daily newspaper and celebrity magazine employees is latest move by owner, Reach, to cut costs
Discussion: MediaPost and Telegraph
Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky's US and UK app usage grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after November 5; Threads has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before November 5  —  Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges  —  Meta's Threads is losing ground …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent and relocating her show from New York to DC  —  The Scoop  —  CNN's leadership says it doesn't want to go back to its wall-to-wall 24-hour coverage of Donald Trump when he returns to the White House in January.
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A US federal court allows The Intercept's claim that the DMCA stops OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but dismisses its claims against Microsoft  —  In an order on Friday, a federal court rejected OpenAI's effort to toss a lawsuit filed by The Intercept over using its journalists' work …
Discussion: The Information, Observer and CNBC
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Experts expect a surge in FOIA requests in Trump's second term, causing more delays and lawsuits; FOIA.gov: as of Q3 2024, the backlog of requests reached 222K+  —  The law itself is likely to stand, but experts expect a surge in requests, longer delays, and more court dates.
Eliav Breuer / Jerusalem Post:
Israel approves a proposal that government bodies refrain from engaging with Haaretz or placing ads in the paper, after controversial remarks from its publisher  —  This decision came “in light of the recent statements by the publisher of ‘Haaretz’, Amos Schocken, who expressed support …
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads  —  - It used to be that leaving Fox News or other big media outlets was the end of your career.  — Not anymore.
 
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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer
 

 
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New York Times:
Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights, and says flight safety was not impacted

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English, and says users' muted words will transfer to Trending

Qwen:
Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built on Qwen2-VL-72B
 
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