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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The Scott Trust approves the sale of The Observer to Tortoise, despite two days of strikes by Guardian and Observer staffers against the deal — Scott Trust backs deal with digital start-up after conditions introduced to address fears among newspaper's staff
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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
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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
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Mail on Sunday apologizes and says it has paid “substantial” damages to a doctor and academic wrongly portrayed as “statin deniers” in a series of articles — The publisher of the Mail on Sunday has apologised and paid “very substantial” damages to a doctor …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: Condé Nast lays off some top executives including VPs and SVPs in marketing and sales, along with key staff in events, social media, and editorial jobs — The cuts come as the company combines its commercial and consumer revenue teams — The digital media company Condé …
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Washington Post:
Fox News feted Donald Trump at Fox Nation's annual awards show, naming him “Patriot of the Year”, highlighting the influential role the network could play — Sean Hannity and other Fox News stars feted Donald Trump at Fox Nation's annual awards show, highlighting the influential role the network is poised to play.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Meta teams up with James Cameron's Lightstorm Vision to bring “live sports and concerts, feature films, and TV series featuring big-name IP” to Quest headsets — 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 …
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 …
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
Chinese billionaire Zhang Xin makes an undisclosed investment in Mubi via her film production company Closer Media, and joins Mubi's board of directors — The former CEO of real estate giant SOHO China launched the New York-based film group Closer Media in 2022.
Taylor Lorenz / Passionfruit:
How transgender journalist Erin Reed covered a SCOTUS hearing on a transgender healthcare case, interacting with readers and viewers across social platforms — For years, the Supreme Court press corps has been dominated by mainstream media outlets. But with the rise of independent journalists …
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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.
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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.
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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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