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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Internal Slack messages show senior NYT editors dismissed suggestions from some staff that the paper hedge in its initial framing of the Gaza hospital explosion — Internal messages obtained by Vanity Fair offer a glimpse into the newsroom decision-making process and reveal pushback among …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
The Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars are fueling graphic videos online for a global audience, sometimes as propaganda, and potentially causing more trauma
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Shruti Rajkumar / HuffPost:
Scholastic drops plans to separate books based on themes about race and gender at US school fairs, after criticism that segregating books enabled censorship — The publisher had said it would segregate books with themes on race and gender at school fairs in order to navigate a rash of bans across the country.
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:
Amazon Live and Flipkart's Vibes are trying to revive livestreamed e-commerce in India, after most startups that tried to popularize the retail push struggled — Most startups that tried to popularize livestream commerce in the country are struggling. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
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Naomi Forman-Katz / Pew Research Center:
Survey: US adults who say they follow the news all or most of the time fell from 51% in 2016 to 38% in 2022; in 2022, 19% said they follow the news now and then — Americans are following the news less closely than they were a few years ago, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple increases the price of Apple TV+ from $6.99 per month to $9.99 per month and News+ from $9.99 per month to $12.99 per month — Apple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ …
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Scott Nover / Slate:
US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta has repeatedly accepted Google's requests to redact documents and hold private testimony, alarming press advocates and reporters — U.S. v. Google was supposed to be the “antitrust trial of the century”—the highest-profile, and potentially the most consequential …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Harvard law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright use, TikTok, and more — After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok …
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGAW apologizes for the “tremendous pain” caused by its silence on the Israel-Hamas war, saying that the guild generally takes stances only on domestic issues — The Writers Guild of America West issued an apology to its members on Tuesday for the harm caused by its decision …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Sources: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Jewish community leaders that he asked the Qatari prime minister to tone down Al Jazeera's war coverage — U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken told a group of American Jewish community leaders on Monday that he asked the Qatari prime minister less …
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Rania Aniftos / Billboard:
TikTok announces its first live global music event, set for December 10 in Mesa, Arizona, with Cardi B, Niall Horan, Anitta, and Charlie Puth headlining — The event will take place on Dec. 10 at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz. — TikTok is continuing its foray into the music world …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
TelevisaUnivision reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $1.3B, US revenue up 5% YoY to $806.3M, US ad revenue up 3%, and its free Vix streaming service has 40M+ MAUs — The Spanish-language media giant, led by CEO Wade Davis, reports more than 40 million monthly active users for streamer ViX …
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Lauren Theisen / Defector:
The Messenger, which launched in May, appears to be speedrunning every stage of a VC-funded, ad-dependent media startup life, from VC darling to barren husk — Nobody can be surprised that The Messenger isn't living up to its grand promises. Before the news site launched …
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