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3:50 PM ET, September 20, 2022

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube unveils Creator Music in beta, which lets creators browse a catalog and use songs by buying rights or sharing revenue, debuting in the US this fall  —  In addition to the groundbreaking news that YouTube would begin to monetize Shorts videos and revamp its Partner Program …
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
YouTube plans to expand its Partner Program to give 45% of Shorts ad revenue to creators with 1,000+ subscribers and 10M views on Shorts within a 90-day period  —  YouTube just made a major change to its Partner Program that will allow its short-form video creators to make a lot more money from its platform.
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify launches an audiobooks service in the US with 300,000 titles, letting users purchase and download individual books to play in its app  —  The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate from its Premium subscription for music and podcasts.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Atlantic's first two film and TV projects are airing soon on Peacock, part of a wider licensing push; it has 12 other projects optioned or in production  —  The Atlantic is pushing aggressively into film and TV projects as part of a wider licensing revenue push.
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
A new book says that under White House pressure, Fox News's Bret Baier emailed the network's president during the 2020 election and urged calling AZ for Trump  —  - Fox News anchor Bret Baier “was ready to give into” pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan on growth, content, and more, as the service launches in the Nordics today and the Netherlands and Portugal on October 25  —  “We are launching with really attractive price points” and offering “a minimum of 30 movies a year,” Monty Sarhan says in an interview …
Cordilia James / Wall Street Journal:
Closed captions on videos are used widely by people under 40 years old, going beyond accessibility and translation to improve understanding and aid multitasking  —  As automatic captioning on TikTok and creative audio descriptions on Netflix go mainstream, so does accessibility  —  Closed captions are cool now.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time launches CO2 by Time, a sustainability division that aims to help companies tackle climate change, featuring portfolios of climate action projects  —  Time is launching a sustainability division called “CO2 by Time” that will offer companies tools that go beyond just offsetting their carbon emissions.
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Fox re-enters the international distribution business with Fox Entertainment Global; its former international sales arm was integrated into Disney's in 2019  —  Fox Entertainment is re-entering the international distribution business by launching a sales unit ahead of Mipcom Cannes next month.
Discussion: Axios, Next TV and C21Media
Grist:
Nonprofit climate news site Grist names current Editor-in Chief Nikhil Swaminathan as CEO; he succeeds Brady Piñero Walkinshaw  —  Swaminathan to advance and expand the nonprofit, award-winning digital media site's commitment to climate and social justice reporting.  Grist also names board members emeritus.
Discussion: @cgiller and @susanchira
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
LinkedIn hires Courtney Coupe, most recently SVP of content strategy and operations for CNN Digital, as its first head of original programming
Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
The UK's new Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan plans to review privatizing Channel 4 and scrapping the BBC license fee
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Casey Newton reflects on Platformer after two years, saying it has ~75K subscribers, “thousands” of paid subs, and a podcast with the NYT launching October 7
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Errin Haines / The 19th:
A survey of 20,799 US adults: 63% agree news is critical to democracy but 31% feel coverage almost never accurately reflects issues faced by people like them
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sunday morning talk shows, once an integral part of the Beltway news ecosystem, look to tweak the old format after declining ratings and an exodus of VIP guests
Brian Witte / Associated Press:
A Baltimore judge orders the release of Adnan Syed, whose 1999 murder trial gained widespread attention via the Serial podcast, after overturning his conviction
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Internal email: Bustle Digital Group is shuttering its tech title Input and laying off 19 staffers, including 10 at pop culture outlet Mic, mostly in editorial
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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