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5:50 PM ET, October 12, 2022

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Jack Queen / Reuters:
A Connecticut jury awards $965M+ in damages to Sandy Hook families of children and staff members in the second defamation trial against Alex Jones and Infowars  —  A Connecticut jury has reached a damages verdict in a case to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay families …
Digiday:
Sources: Apple held separate exploratory discussions with media agencies about monetizing its original video content through ads, possibly as early as 2023  —  Apple's growing designs on the ad industry are already well-documented with the iPhone maker's media unit already generating $4 billion per year on search.
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Gannett CEO Mike Reed announces austerity measures, including a voluntary severance offer, a 401(k) match suspension, and a five-day mandatory leave in December  —  New: memo from Gannett CEO Mike Reed announcing “voluntary severance” and other austerity measures at the company: https://twitter.com/...
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
An interview with Rest of World EIC Anup Kaphle and operations head Eli Berger on paying staff and freelancers fairly around the world and holding more events  —  Rest of World, a nonprofit newsroom covering global tech stories, now has its first editor-in-chief.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Book excerpt: journalists must adopt new tactics after six years of covering Trump, often failing to label lies and acting as his megaphones and stenographers  —  I believed in traditional reporting, but Trump changed me — and it should change the rest of the media too.  —  Perspective by Margaret Sullivan
Peter White / Deadline:
Warner Bros. Discovery partly reverses course and plans to move its Directors' Workshop and Writers' Workshop from Warner Bros. Television to its DEI division  —  Warner Bros. Discovery has performed a quick U-turn on its decision to close its Writers and Directors Workshops.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Warner Bros. Television Group laid off 82 employees on October 11, or 19% of its workforce, and cut 43 vacant posts, totaling a 26% drop from ~481 positions
Deadline:
Warner Bros. Television Group shuts down its digital short-form programming division Stage 13 and its Television Workshop for emerging writers and directors
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast promotes CFO Mike Cavanagh to president, the third president in the company's 59-year history; Cavanagh, who joined Comcast in 2015, will remain the CFO  —  “Mike will be only the third president in the company's 59-year history.”  —  Comcast said on Wednesday that it has promoted …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Netflix joins the British ratings agency BARB as a full member, planning to publish independently audited viewing figures on individual shows for the first time  —  Streaming service's decision to sign up to independent ratings agency is world first and will give insight into its cultural power
Helen Pidd / The Guardian:
A profile of Alex Belfield, an ex-BBC radio presenter jailed for five and a half years in September for online stalking of several BBC presenters and others  —  Alex Belfield's online harassment made life misery for BBC presenters Jeremy Vine, Liz Green and many others.  Why did it take so long to bring him to justice?
 
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Netflix Studios UK, Netflix's UK-based production and content arm, reports £103.2M in 2021 revenue, up 31% YoY, and an £11.9M profit, down from £15.1M in 2020
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Around 14 family films will hit theaters in 2022, compared to 24 in 2019, as Disney+, Netflix, and other services try to fill the family-oriented content void
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Reporting by India's The Wire on Meta and India's ruling party comes under scrutiny after questions about the authenticity of a document and an email screenshot