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5:00 AM ET, October 19, 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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans to stop sharing projected subscriber numbers in its earnings starting in Q4 2022, instead stressing new revenue streams like ads and paid sharing
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Indian officials in Delhi block Kashmiri freelance photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo from flying to New York to receive the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in a ceremony  —  Indian authorities should allow Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo to travel abroad freely and collect her Pulitzer Prize in New York …
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
ABC News producer James Gordon Meek abruptly resigned after the FBI raided his home on April 27, 2022; colleagues and neighbors say they haven't seen him since  —  Emmy-winning producer James Gordon Meek had his home raided by the FBI.  His colleagues say they haven't seen him since.
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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!
Julia Felton / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom staff go on strike; union demands include ending the “illegal” halt of negotiations and reinstating the prior contract's terms  —  Newsroom workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, represented by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, went on strike at noon Tuesday.
Joe Reedy / Associated Press:
Amazon plans to stream an NFL game at 3pm ET on Prime Video the day after US Thanksgiving in 2023, paying between $50M and $70M per year for the additional 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.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Ben Smith and Justin Smith launch Semafor, with stories in “Semaform” and sections 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.
Selome Hailu / Variety:
Study of the 2021-2022 season: 50% of major characters on streaming shows were women, vs. 48% on broadcast; streaming companies put more women in creative roles  —  During the 2020-21 TV season, a study found that streaming companies put more women in positions of creative power than broadcast networks did …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at sports rights at SiriusXM, which has exclusive audio deals with the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, and MLB and where sports ads make up nearly 25% of ad sales  —  SiriusXM is increasing its investment in live sports rights in an effort to lure and retain more premium subscribers, CEO Jennifer Witz told Axios.
Patrick Brzeski / The Hollywood Reporter:
Xi Jinping's third term bodes ominously for China's film market; Artisan Gateway: China's 2022 box office is $3.88B so far, down 33% YoY and down 50% from 2019  —  Regulators in the country have clamped down on Hollywood imports and narrowed the range of Chinese films deemed politically acceptable.
 
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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Parler agrees to be acquired by Ye, formerly Kanye West, to create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome”; the deal is set to close in Q4 2022
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

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