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8:20 PM ET, November 14, 2022

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Jack Mirkinson / Discourse Blog:
CNN's “interview” with Jeff Bezos, where he gave the broad but non-specific promise that he plans to give most of his money to charity, is shameful PR nonsense  —  CNN's ‘interview’ with Jeff Bezos was shameful PR nonsense.  —  Let's say you're a billionaire tyrant and the company you founded …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
An interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on expanding Politico to foreign capitals by adding 100-150 staff, advising Elon Musk on Twitter, and more  —  We are living through the twilight of the press baron.  Once, there were conquerors of newspapers, magazines …
Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
Source: Michael Lewis shadowed Sam Bankman-Fried for the past six months and the CAA is pitching Lewis' yet-to-be-written book on FTX's fall to Hollywood buyers  —  Author compares Sam Bankman-Fried, Binance's CZ to ‘Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader’ in email sent by CAA  —  In this issue:
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Meta eliminated many journalism-adjacent positions as part of its 11K layoffs, including David Grant, The Meta Journalism Project Accelerator's program manager  —  “Meta had the resources at its peak to do incredible things.  Not just the dollars, but the encouragement to think of the best outcome possible …
Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
Sequoia deleting its 14,000-word SBF profile by journalist Adam Fischer shows VCs' media pivot isn't about informing readers but spreading corporate propaganda  —  A now-infamous profile of the fallen FTX founder illustrates the predictable dangers of corporate content creation.  But first...
Max Tani / Semafor:
A look at the New York Post under Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole, as the ex-Sun digital editor tries to attract a national audience by taking on the MailOnline  —  This summer, as the New York Post bludgeoned her reelection campaign, New York Governor Kathy Hochul sought via an aide to arrange …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Sunday Times Editor Emma Tucker is expected to replace Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray, who took the role in June 2018  —  News Corp. executives in London have told associates they expect the editor of the Sunday Times, Emma Tucker, to take the top editorial job at the Wall Street Journal.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube introduces a Live Q&A feature designed to help creators select and manage viewers' chat questions during livestreams  —  YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature that is designed to make it easier for creators to interact with viewers during livestreams.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: The Washington Post Managing Editor Steven Ginsberg is leaving the newspaper to run The Athletic; Ginsberg lost out on the job to Sally Buzbee in 2021  —  I grew up reading the New York Post, and have watched it transform itself into a national Republican outlet.
Discussion: Barrett Media
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Hulu expands its Live TV line-up to 85+ channels, adding 14 channels such as the Hallmark Channel and The Weather Channel, ahead of its December 8 price hike  —  Hulu is expanding its Live TV line-up with 14 new channels, such as Hallmark Channel, The Weather Channel, Comedy.TV, JusticeCentral.TV …
 
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Malcolm Harris / New York Magazine:
A look at the rise of “influencer capital”, in which celebrities use their fame to promote and buy ownership stakes in otherwise mediocre products or services
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
An interview with BBC News Digital Director Naja Nielsen on media distrust in the US, where the outlet reaches 50M per week, and doubling North American staff
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Affiliate fees and ads, which financed streaming efforts, are in secular decline as cable companies lose ~10% of customers yearly; TV ad sales fell 12% in 2020
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Analysis: the top 50 US magazines' collective average circulation fell from 145M in H1 2021 to 133M in H1 2022; print subs fell 11% YoY, digital grew 28% YoY
Discussion: Media Voices
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Sam Bankman-Fried invested in several nonprofit and for-profit newsrooms over the past year including Semafor, The Intercept, ProPublica, and Vox
 

 
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers
 
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