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8:40 AM ET, November 16, 2022

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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Meta reminds Facebook fact-checking partners that “political speech is ineligible for fact-checking”, ahead of Trump's announcement of a 2024 run for president  —  Facebook's fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running …
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
A Writers' Guild of Great Britain survey finds 55% of 250+ writers say that rising energy and food costs are impacting their ability to sustain a writing career  —  The Writers' Guild of Great Britain has warned that its members are set to face the sharp edges of the U.K.'s cost-of-living crisis this winter …
Discussion: The Bookseller
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: tech news website Protocol, launched by former Politico owner Robert Allbritton in February 2020, will close later this week and lay off its ~60 staff  —  New York CNN Business —  Protocol, the upstart technology news website launched by former Politico owner …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says the ad market is weaker than in 2020 and that HBO went from making $2B+ in 2019 to losing ~$3B in 2021 as content spending surged  —  - Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav spoke Tuesday at RBC's 2022 Global TIMT Conference in New York.
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Jeff Kotuby / The Streamable:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says the company will be “very disciplined” when its NBA contract expires after the 2024-2025 season: “We don't have to have the NBA”  —  In less than one year as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav has made some “interesting” comments …
Claire Woodcock / VICE:
Some public libraries in the US and Canada are using open-source software MUSICat to offer their own music streaming services and boost their local music scenes  —  It's not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor.  —  Claire Woodcock
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amid an advertising downturn and lower linear viewership, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and other networks are asking staff to trim costs, find savings, and more  —  As CNN, ABC News and others grapple with an advertising downturn and lower linear viewership, the new mandate is to trim costs …
Discussion: @tvgrimreaper and @alexweprin
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
NBC suspends Today show correspondent Miguel Almaguer after retracting his reporting that stoked right-wing conspiracy theories about the assault on Paul Pelosi  —  This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Techdirt no longer plans to embed tweets due to Twitter's “erratic and unpredictable situation”, instead using screenshots, the tweet text, or a description  —  I sent this notice around internally here at Techdirt, but figured it might be useful to state this publicly.
Zoe Samios / Sydney Morning Herald:
The Australian EIC Chris Dore is stepping down after four years to deal with a health issue and undergo surgery; the newspaper will be edited by Michelle Gunn  —  Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size  —  The editor-in-chief of News Corp's national masthead The Australian …
Discussion: The Guardian
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The editor of the UK's Tortoise says podcasting is profitable for the slow news publisher and the “bedrock of everything we do”, despite huge investment costs  —  The editor of Tortoise Studios, Ceri Thomas, has told Press Gazette how podcasts went from an experiment …
Discussion: @adamrutherford
 
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Intel scraps forecast of selling $500M+ worth of Gaudi AI accelerator chips in 2024, with CEO Pat Gelsinger citing chip transition and slower uptake to software

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