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8:50 PM ET, December 5, 2024

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Harry Litman / Talking Feds Substack:
LA Times op-ed contributor Harry Litman resigns, saying he's protesting the “repugnant and dangerous” actions to appease Trump by owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong  —  I have been a contributor to the Los Angeles Times op-ed page in some fashion for more than 15 years.
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: the LAT now has to send Patrick Soon-Shiong opinion story headlines ahead of publication for review, after carrying a Elon Musk headline he didn't like  —  Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are “confused,” “offended,” and “frustrated.”
JD Knapp / The Wrap:
On Scott Jennings' podcast, Patrick Soon-Shiong said he plans to add an AI-powered “bias meter” to LAT stories and hopes to roll it out as soon as January 2025  —  “The reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story,” Patrick Soon-Shiong tells Scott Jennings
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Q&A with Jessica Chan, Perplexity's new head of publisher partnerships, on its revenue-sharing program, how publishers are using Perplexity's APIs, and more  —  Perplexity announced today it has added more than a dozen new media companies to its publisher program, including Blavity …
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Adam Sherwin / The i Paper:
After a two-day strike, Guardian journalists continue to push The Scott Trust to seek alternative bids for the Observer; another walkout is set Dec. 12-Dec. 13  —  The Scott Trust is due to hold an urgent meeting on the future of The Observer  —  Guardian staff returning to work …
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Circana: Taylor Swift's “Eras Tour Book”, released exclusively via Target, sold 814K copies over the Thanksgiving weekend, the biggest publishing launch of 2024  —  Just one retail chain was enough for Taylor Swift to have the top-selling book last week and the biggest publishing launch of 2024.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says it is not “necessarily true” that Bluesky will always be ad-free; ads could be “user intent-driven”, like running in search results  —  Bluesky has blown up this year thanks to a vibrant community of posters, user customization choices …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ipsos: in October 2024, BBC News passed Apple News as the biggest UK news app with 14.2M users and 1.7B minutes spent to Apple News' 14M users and 1.3B minutes  —  BBC News has overtaken Apple News as the biggest news app in the UK in the year since Press Gazette's last annual ranking.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
James Cameron's Lightstorm Vision strikes a deal with Meta to bring more premium content to the Meta Quest mixed reality headsets featuring “big-name IP”  —  The multiyear deal will make Meta Quest the exclusive mixed reality headset of Lightstorm, and is meant to turbocharge 3D content development.
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Memo: Vox Media announces layoffs and a restructuring of lifestyle brands, affecting Thrillist, PS (PopSugar), and Eater, and product, production and tech staff  —  - Vox Media just cut an unspecified number of staff and reorganized its lifestyle brands.  — CEO Jim Bankoff said the company …
 
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Apple TV+ joins Prime Video Channels as a subscription add-on in Australia, Canada, and the UK, following a roll out in the US in October 2024
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Netflix denies reports it is pulling out of Nigeria, but local film producers and industry insiders say it has been cutting back on original Nigeria productions
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Axios HQ, the internal communications business spun off from Axios in 2022, buys the communications membership organization Mixing Board, its first acquisition
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Prince Harry says his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers for hacking his phone is about “accountability” and defending legitimate journalism
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
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