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2:10 PM ET, September 16, 2022

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Nico Grant / New York Times:
Leaked audio: YouTube will lower the barriers to entry for its partner program and bring ads to Shorts, paying creators 45% of ad money vs. 55% for YouTube ads  —  The video platform will let more creators earn payments and place ads in Shorts, its TikTok competitor, according to audio from an internal meeting.
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David Cohen / Adweek:
YouTube is testing a machine learning model that reformats landscape video, including ads, into square or vertical formats based on how the viewer is watching  —  Advertisers can more easily incorporate Shorts into their application, Performance Max, video action campaigns
Discussion: 9to5Google and The Keyword
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Some YouTube viewers say the platform's ads expanded in length and quantity over the past month or two, with reports of five to 10 unskippable ads per break
Rodger Sherman / The Ringer:
Amazon's NFL debut had audio and video issues and lots of Prime ads, but it was a good and conventional broadcast, with top commentators and nice extra streams  —  Thursday night's Chiefs-Chargers game showed that Amazon won't revolutionize how football games are broadcast; it'll just try to sell you Prime as you watch
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
With two Emmy Awards, Netflix's Squid Game became the first non-English-language show to win top primetime Emmys, a milestone for South Korea's cultural wave  —  The Emmys had never even nominated a non-English show for a major award.  Then Netflix and Korean pop culture took over the globe — and won.
Discussion: Washington Post
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Recurrent Ventures buys home design magazine Dwell; Recurrent acquired over two dozen small media companies across a few niche verticals in the last few years  —  Recurrent Ventures, a venture equity-backed digital media company, has acquired Dwell, a premium home design magazine turned-digital media brand.
Discussion: MediaPost and @sarafischer
Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
The European Commission proposes media rules to protect independence, ensure public media funding, make ownership and state advertising more transparent, more  —  The European Union's executive branch unveiled plans Friday for new laws that it said would help protect media freedom and independence …
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Sources: BBC, ITV, and Sky, which invested heavily in coverage of Queen's funeral, are pushing back on making their live feeds available to UK newspapers  —  Major British broadcasters have been engaged in a fierce stand-off with UK newspapers over the rights to the live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, Deadline can reveal.
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Former LA Times editor Henry Fuhrmann dies; Fuhrmann was also an adjunct journalism professor and active member at the AAJA and ACES: The Society for Editing  —  No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen.  In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Tony Gallagher, deputy editor of Murdoch's The Times, is being lined up to be its new editor, as its current boss, John Witherow, is expected to leave  —  Announcement expected of editor John Witherow's departure and his deputy's promotion  —  Tony Gallagher is being lined …
 
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Inside Radio:
Stockholm-based podcast network Acast plans to lay off 15% of its staff, or about 60 employees, in September 2022 as the company seeks profitability by 2024
Discussion: Bloomberg
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Inside labor unrest at The New York Times, where star reporters and new enlistees are frustrated with pay negotiations and union members discuss “strike school”
Filipp Lebedev / Reuters:
Russia's Supreme Court strips Novaya Gazeta of its last media license; Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov calls the verdict “informational genocide”, vows to appeal
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon and Apple passed on the media rights to Saudi-backed LIV Golf, which also hasn't been able to strike a deal with ESPN, CBS, NBC, and Fox
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Laura Cappelle / New York Times:
French director Marion Siéfert blames Meta's opaque policies for banning livestreams of her “Instagram play” about a teen expressing sexuality despite no nudity
John Koblin / New York Times:
CNN plans to revamp its morning show in October 2022, adding hosts Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins, in Chris Licht's biggest programming move yet
Ben Smith / @semaforben:
In a memo, Semafor announces 19 founding editorial members and new hires