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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop — In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts — - Ambient sound shows will no longer be eligible for certain ads — Company raises listener threshold for ambassador ads program
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Wall Street Journal, MediaPost, CMU, Podnews, Insider, @bartona104, @ashleyrcarman, Engadget, The Verge, Music Ally and Digital Music News, more at Techmeme »
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
NPR CEO John Lansing says he plans to retire at the end of 2023; he has been CEO since 2019; NPR will now conduct a national search for his successor — - U.S. Economy Adds 187,000 Jobs In August, Entertainment Employment Continues To Decline Amid Strikes — John Lansing, the president …
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NPR, NPR, @hollyedgell and @benmullin
Meta:
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries — Today, we are announcing that in the UK, France and Germany we will deprecate Facebook News - a dedicated tab on Facebook …
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Press Gazette, TechCrunch, MediaPost, Financial Times, @mgeist, Engadget, @obrien, @obrien, Bloomberg and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD rebrands its preschool network Boomerang to Cartoonito, available as a pay TV channel, in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa — “Cartoonito is Warner Bros. Discovery's biggest commitment to programming for children aged 2 to 6.”
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Ben Werdmuller / Werd I/O:
Organizations like Tiny News Collective could help build a “wide news” commons of smaller specialized newsrooms and perspectives of individuals in a community — Doc Searls writes about what he calls wide news: … Doc's argument is that a local commons of publications can …
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Local News Initiative, @ben@werd.social and Doc Searls Weblog
Eva Hartog / Politico:
Politico Europe's reporter in Moscow, expelled after 10 years working in Russia, on how journalists from Western countries are being squeezed out of the country — Moscow is quietly cracking down on the country's last independent observers. — During my 10 years as a Moscow-based journalist …
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The UK's Channel 4 plans to enter the US market by launching two FAST channels, 4 Adventure and 4 Emergency, on Tubi, Plex, and Xumo Play later in September — - ‘Bardot’ Series Sells After Netflix Launch; National Cinema Day Record; SkyShowtime's ‘Codename: Annika’ Trailer; BAFTA Wales Award — Global Briefs
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Media Voices and Broadband TV News
Max Tani / Semafor:
A look at Jay Penske's media empire, as he adds a Hollywood Reporter co-EIC and the Hollywood strikes hurt revenue; source: THR missed Q1 revenue goals by 20%+ — The Scoop — It's a hard detail to leave out of a profile of Hollywood's dominant publishing figure: In 2012 …
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The Rebooting, @sharonwaxman, @nbj914 and @richlightshed
Zoe Williams / The Guardian:
An interview with Marianna Spring, the BBC's first disinformation correspondent, on her Conspiracyland podcast, online abuse becoming offline action, and more — The broadcaster's first disinformation correspondent spends her time pursuing trolls and dismantling conspiracy theories.
Reuters:
Indian police file charges against four journalists covering violent clashes in India and accuse them of trying to “provoke clashes” with their reporting — Indian police in Manipur state have filed criminal charges against four journalists, accusing them of misrepresenting facts …
Financial Times:
A look at Sony India's merger with Zee Entertainment: creating a 74-channel media powerhouse and giving Sony a 24.8% market share, compared to Disney Star's 24% — In the late 1980s, Sony stunned the world with the $3bn acquisition of Columbia Pictures and a grand ambition to crack Hollywood.
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