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6:05 PM ET, September 9, 2022

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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin says revenue grew 35% YoY in H1 2022 and the outlet has 360,000+ “active readers”, including its free newsletters audience  —  - The Information is one of the rare digital-media outlets that have remained independent.
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Over 500 US-based Condé Nast workers at 11 publications win union recognition, under the NewsGuild of New York; magazines include Vanity Fair, Allure, and Vogue  —  Condé Nast employees won union recognition Friday from their company, making workers at iconic …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more  —  And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it  —  Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
California's budget includes $25M for a local news fellowship, starting in May 2023, with stipends distributed via UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism  —  The budget passed in California this week includes $25 million worth of help for local news, which will be distributed via UC …
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Kantar: political campaigns are expected to spend $1.2B on streaming ads in the 2022 US midterms as streaming increasingly reaches a big share of the electorate  —  The week after Labor Day traditionally marks the beginning of the fall election season, with campaigns rushing to get their message …
Discussion: @jank0
Madison Hahamy / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the tensions between the staff at the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and their owners, who are subjects of over a dozen NLRB complaints  —  On February 9, 2019, at about 10 pm near the end of a Saturday night shift, John Robinson Block, one of the owners of the Toledo Blade …
Discussion: @cjr, @cpotterpgh, @mhahamy and @bladeguild
Reuters:
Indian music streaming app Gaana says it has switched to a paid subscription model after buyout talks failed: sources: the potential acquirer was Bharti Airtel  —  Tencent-backed Indian music streaming app Gaana has switched to a paid subscription model to avoid closing down after failing …
Discussion: Billboard and @dattaameet
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Streaming television is going through an existential crisis as users cancel services and creators fear having their show or movie deleted on an executive's whim  —  Missing archives, less ambitious programming, higher prices: Creators and subscribers say they're seeing the fallout from television's big revolution
Paul Linford / HoldtheFrontPage:
The UK's National Union of Journalists postpones a September 13 to September 15 strike planned at Reach after Queen Elizabeth II's death and a new pay proposal  —  A planned three-day strike by journalists next week has been called off in the wake of the death of the Queen …
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Bloomberg Media announces a major reorg: Al Mayers, who led global TV, is retiring; David Merritt is named head of Bloomberg Media Editorial over all properties  —  Big editorial re-org at Bloomberg Media today. The headline is that Al Mayers, who led Bloomberg's global TV division, is out. Here's the full memo from Scott Havens and John Micklethwait (it's a whopper). https://twitter.com/...
 
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Politico:
Senator Amy Klobuchar withdraws the JCPA from consideration in a Senate committee after the GOP added provisions to limit content moderation by tech platforms
New York Times:
Vice Media journalists raise concerns about the company's potential deal with MBC, which is partially owned by the Saudi government, on a call with executives
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Salesforce and CNBC plan to co-produce a seven-episode docuseries as part of an NBCUniversal deal, debuting on September 17 and profiling Salesforce clients
Discussion: Barrett Media
Bloomberg:
Source: Amazon is charging ~$600K for a 30-second spot in its Thursday Night Football games, vs. the ~$500K Fox sought in 2021, guaranteeing 12M+ viewers a game
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Snap's ad archive shows some Democratic and progressive organizations were able to target ads using a GOP voter data repository; Snap blames an internal mistake
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
A Brussels court dismisses most of IAB Europe's appeals about its consent framework, found to be in breach of GDPR; some appeals will head to the EU's top court
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Bernard Shaw, CNN's first news anchor who started when the network launched in 1980 and retired after more than 20 years in 2001, dies at 82
 

 
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Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central:
X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app

Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
The Biden administration says Apple has agreed to adopt the White House's voluntary safeguards for AI, joining OpenAI, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others

Clare Duffy / CNN:
Kamala Harris, who began her career in the Bay Area and was involved in Biden's pro-tech actions like the CHIPS Act, sees a surge of support from tech donors
 
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