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Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
Music-annotating startup Genius sells its assets to MediaLab for $80M; MediaLab says it will cut some jobs in original content production teams — The sale price is less than the total funding raised. — Music-annotating startup Genius Media Group Inc., a site that drew attention in part …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A few people called Genius the future of journalism, but its vision of simply adding boxes for comment on others' work was emblematic of its founders' arrogance — Genius (née Rap Genius) wanted to “annotate the world” and give your content a giant comment section you can't control.
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Mark Scott / Politico:
A look at EU Reporter, which portrays itself as an independent media organization while regularly failing to add disclosures to paid-for content — Brussels news outlet EU Reporter's blend of corporate press releases, original news and paid-for content makes it impossible for readers to determine who's behind the coverage.
News UK:
Piers Morgan is joining News Corp and Fox News, where he will have a TV show in early 2022, and will also be a columnist at The Sun and the New York Post — - New global TV show will air on weeknights in the UK, USA and Australia; — Morgan will publish two weekly columns online for the New York Post and The Sun;
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Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal:
China erased Zhao Wei, its biggest movie star who had 86M Weibo followers, from its internet on August 26, amid a clampdown on its entertainment industry — Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China, then she was censored by the Communist Party amid a clampdown of the country's entertainment industry
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News UK:
News UK announces the launch of talkTV, a linear and OTT channel featuring news, opinion, and sports shows, in early 2022 — News UK is to launch a new channel, talkTV, in early 2022. — The channel will be streamed live and made widely available on all platforms including linear TV …
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Reuters, @jimwaterson, @newsuk, @brokentv, The Sun, @jimwaterson, @imincorrigible, @nmsonline, Advanced Television, City A.M., Metro.co.uk, @ifanmj and Guido Fawkes
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The 8th Circuit's bizarre decision greenlighting a lawsuit over a Ryan Lizza tweet about Devin Nunes sets a dangerous precedent for defamation claims — Rep. Devin Nunes has kept up his suing news organizations (and satirical internet cows). He has been mostly losing.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court rejects Devin Nunes' defamation suit over a 2018 Esquire article, but says he may have been libeled when a reporter tweeted out the story in 2019
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Des Moines Register, @jkosseff, @cmarinucci, Vanity Fair, @medialawprof, @dmrmorris, @erikwemple, @dmregister, Reason, Columbia Journalism Review, @erikwemple, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @puxxled, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @lawsuitsdevin, @senkevincramer, @oliverdarcy, @5dollarfeminist, @imillhiser, @abeaujon, @natsecgeek, @aricohn, @eriqgardner, MediaPost and Law & Crime
Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
The SCOTUS press corps, dominated by older white men, has actively denied the court's shift to the right, clearly shown by extremist shadow docket decisions — The conservative takeover of the Court is putting traditional legal media to the test. The results are not encouraging.
Jared Schroeder / Global Investigative …:
Report: between January 2015 and May 2021, SLAPPs were most prevalent in Latin America and Asia and were mostly tied to industries like mining and logging — Nestor Nga Etoga has made nearly 100 court appearances since 2016, leaving him little time to pursue investigative journalism projects.
Financial Times:
Since the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney, Lachlan Murdoch has overseen $6.9B in acquisitions, including TMZ; James Murdoch has overseen ~$700M in deals — Heir apparent has overseen $7bn of acquisitions since 2019 compared with $700m by brother James — Lachlan Murdoch has emerged …
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@thomas_m_wilson, @bongcapital and Forbes
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
YouTube launches its first podcast, The Upload, which will feature interviews with YouTube stars on how they created their businesses — As all social platforms look to implement more ways to enable creators to monetize their on-platform efforts, with a view to keeping them posting to their apps more often …
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YouTube Official Blog, The Independent and Tubefilter
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021 — Whatnot, a live streaming shopping platform for collectors to buy and sell things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops …
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@esports_josh, @anuhariharan and @bradflora, more at Techmeme »
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