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Max Tani / Semafor:
Internal AP messages show how a less-than-10-minute conversation led to the retracted report inaccurately suggesting Russia launched a missile strike on Poland — Your Email addressSign Up — A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack between journalists at the Associated Press resulted …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Some White House press corps members objected to lack of access to Naomi Biden's wedding, after Vogue posted a story on the event, with images shot in advance — The White House Press corps is up in arms over a Vogue cover story on the wedding of President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden …
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Washington Post:
Sources detail Elon Musk's rapid dismantling of Twitter's safety work, narrowing its scope to whatever he deems violent, threatening “sticks and stones” talk — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content moderation system
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New Republic, @esqueer_, @benshapiro, Insider, Gizmodo, @jsrailton, @jordanbpeterson, @goldman, @willoremus, Fox News and Mashable
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Washington Post:
Pathmatics: over a third of Twitter's top 100 clients, including Mars and Jeep, as well as 14 of the top 50, haven't advertised on Twitter in the past two weeks — More than a third of Twitter's top 100 clients have not advertised on the platform in the past two weeks, data shows
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney's other units — Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bob Iger loomed large over Bob Chapek's short tenure as Disney CEO, leading Chapek to complain that he was being undermined as soon as he was promoted — Soon after he took the top job in 2020, Bob Chapek was at odds with Mr. Iger and complained to deputies he had been undermined from the start
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@rationalwalk, @timseymour, @eliotwb, @benpershing, @djtgallagher, @erichschwartzel, Looper, Los Angeles Times and Deadline
CNBC:
Sources: Disney board rehired Bob Iger after complaints from senior leadership, including CFO Christine McCarthy, about Bob Chapek's management of the company
Sources: Disney board rehired Bob Iger after complaints from senior leadership, including CFO Christine McCarthy, about Bob Chapek's management of the company
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Alex Frangos / Wall Street Journal:
Major News Corp and Fox shareholder Independent Franchise Partners opposes the merger, saying it would not realize News Corp's “substantial intrinsic value” — Independent Franchise Partners, one of the largest non-Murdoch holders of both companies, says a combination on its own …
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Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, @anthony, @pjlogue and @anthony
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The Guardian:
Australia's Sky News host Peter Gleeson is accused of plagiarism for a third time in a month, using a regional writer's work for ~45% of his Courier-Mail column — Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission sift through journalist's work after two similar cases were revealed
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@bernardzuel, @neilmcmahon and @tfswebb
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sky plans to launch an ad-free kids TV channel in the UK and Ireland in February 2023, available to its Sky Kids package and Now streaming service subscribers — “Home to ad-free 24-hour programming, the new channel will showcase quality Sky originals and big names that kids love and parents can trust …
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Digital TV Europe and Broadband TV News
WBTV-TV:
Meteorologist Jason Myers and pilot Chip Tayag were killed in the crash of a helicopter owned by Charlotte TV station WBTV, next to Interstate 77 — The two people were killed in a helicopter crash. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - WBTV Meteorologist Jason Myers and Sky3 pilot Chip Tayag …
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China grants Disney permission to release Avatar: The Way Of Water on December 16; the last seven Marvel movies haven't received release dates in China — Entertainment company was eager to get approval for a release date in the critical market — Disney's ‘Mulan,’ Tailored for Chinese Audience, Struggles to Connect
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Insider, The Wrap, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter and The A.V. Club
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
A look at Amazon's approach to moderating books and movies on its marketplace, following uproar over the anti-Semitic movie and book referred to by Kyrie Irving — It's been nearly a month since NBA star Kyrie Irving tweeted a link to an anti-Semitic film he found on Amazon Prime Video.
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@ogaride and @awallenstein