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6:05 PM ET, October 18, 2022

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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix beats with Q3 revenue up 5.9% YoY to $7.93B, $1.4B net income, down from $1.45B YoY, 2.4M net global subscribers added, vs. 1.09M est.; stock is up 10%+  —  - Netflix beat third-quarter expectations on the top and bottom lines Tuesday.  — The company said it added 2.41 million …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says its approach to “monetize account sharing” will roll out “more broadly starting in early 2023” and will include the ability to create sub-accounts  —  Netflix plans to crack down on password sharing beginning in 2023.  After giving users the ability …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Inside The New York Times' identity crisis, as some in its new administrative layer say their mandate is to enact radical cultural change as slowly as possible  —  Ben is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Semafor, coming over from the New York Times.  Sign up for his media newsletter, out every Sunday night!
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Julia Felton / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers go on strike; union demands include ending the “illegal” halt of negotiations and reinstating last contract's terms  —  Newsroom workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, represented by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, went on strike at noon Tuesday.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Ben and Justin Smith's Semafor launches, with stories in a “Semaform”, featuring The News, Reporter's View, Room for Disagreement, The View From, and Notable  —  - Semafor, a new global news company, debuted Tuesday.  — The company is launching with $25 million in funding.
Joe Reedy / Associated Press:
Amazon Prime Video will stream an NFL game at 3pm on the day after Thanksgiving in 2023; the company will pay between $50M and $70M per year for the game  —  The NFL will expand to Black Friday beginning next season.  —  The league announced Tuesday that Amazon Prime Video will stream a game on the day after Thanksgiving.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The US should spend $10B+, ~$30 per American, on nonprofit local news outlets for every community, which are open to everyone, with transparent points of view  —  My vision for addressing the huge decline in local journalism involves hiring 87,000 new journalists for about 1,300 news organizations with more than $10 billion in funding.
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Sistrix: Google's September 2022 algorithm update affected several UK publishers, as search rankings for LADbible fell 52%, Mail Online 37%, and The Mirror 27%  —  Ten of the leading news websites in the UK saw their visibility in search rankings reduced as a result of Google's latest core algorithm update in September.
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Patrick Brzeski / The Hollywood Reporter:
Xi Jinping's third term bodes ominously for China's film market; Artisan Gateway: China's box office total for 2022 is $3.88B thus far, down 33% from 2021  —  Regulators in the country have clamped down on Hollywood imports and narrowed the range of Chinese films deemed politically acceptable.
 
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