Mediagazer: Spotify stops allowing developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, like song and artist recommendations and Audio Analysis (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Meghnad Bose / Columbia Journalism Review:

A profile of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year winner, an Afghan woman who works anonymously and covers the plight of women under Taliban rule — The winner of this year's Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. — On Monday evening, media figures gathered …

Discussion: Voice of America and Reuters

Asif Shahzad / Reuters:

Pakistani TV host Matiullah Jan was picked up off the street and charged with terrorism after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march in Islamabad — A Pakistani journalist investigating claims of casualties in a protest march demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan …

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Frank Connelly / Bloomberg:

Vivendi says one of its small investors seeks to delay Vivendi's spinoff of Canal+, Havas, and Louis Hachette Group; shareholders were due to vote December 9 — Vivendi SE said investor CIAM has filed with the Paris Commercial Court to postpone its shareholder meeting scheduled for next month …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Disney+, Hulu, Max, Peacock, and Paramount+ offer steep discounts for Black Friday, despite streaming losses; Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV+ have no offers — Disney+, Hulu, Max, Peacock and Paramount+ are offering steep discounts, even as they struggle to turn a profit in streaming.

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Daniel Kaplan / Awful Announcing:

The US DOJ and 17 state attorneys general file briefs for Fubo and against Venu Sports, which is trying to get an injunction lifted that blocked Venu's launch — Fubo, Venu Sports logos. — The Department of Justice came out strongly in support of FuboTV in its battle against Venu …

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Associated Press:

A US federal judge dismisses a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Ray Epps, who said Fox aired conspiracy theories about his January 6 riot involvement — A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by a former Donald Trump supporter who said he received death threats …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time — When Donald Trump announced that he was appointing current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the next chair of the FCC, it was no surprise.

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Bloomberg Media:

Mishal Husain, who presented the BBC's Today programme for the past eleven years, plans to leave in 2025 to launch a Bloomberg Weekend Edition interview series — Bloomberg News today announced that award-winning broadcaster and journalist Mishal Husain is joining as Editor-at-Large on Bloomberg Weekend Edition.

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Hearst CEO Steve Swartz says 50%+ of Hearst's profits will come from B2B products in 2024; Hearst has spent $14B on B2B acquisitions over the past decade — - That's up from 13% in 2013. — Swartz credits the company's B2B (business-to-business) investments for helping the company grow amid …

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John Buckley / Capital Brief:

Sources: a group of Australian media organizations including Seven West, ABC, SBS, and ACM forms an alliance to bargain collectively with AI firms — The alliance highlights Australian media companies' urgency in seeking revenue from AI firms using their content to train large language models.

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:

Spotify stops allowing developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, like song and artist recommendations and Audio Analysis — Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within …

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Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:

OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets” — A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

A US judge dismisses a Netflix shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of downplaying the impact of account sharing on subscriber growth — Netflix (NFLX.O) won the dismissal on Tuesday of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the streaming company of downplaying the impact on subscriber growth …

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