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The Daily Beast:
Al Jazeera reports that the wife, son, and daughter of its Gaza bureau chief, Wael Al-Dahdouh, were killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp — Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh's wife, son, and daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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Brian Stelter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Conversations with 24 staffers from ABC, NYT, and other outlets reveal the challenges of covering the Israel-Hamas war, including disinformation and defamation — An inside look at how correspondents are juggling online harassment even as they dodge the dangers of real-time reporting in the escalating conflict.
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@jackiedstrause, @brianstelter, @alexweprin, @brianstelter, The Economist, @mohammrafik, Vanity Fair, IndieWire and Bollyinside
Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
CPJ: at least 24 journalists have been killed through October 25 in the Israel-Hamas war, the deadliest period since the committee began tracking deaths in 1992 — At least 24 journalists are among the more than 6,000 people who have been killed in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas …
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@chargrille@progressives …, @moorehn, @joey@spore.social, @alivelshi, @aljazeeraenglish@threads.net and Wired
Wall Street Journal:
Silver Lake, which owns ~71% of the voting stake in Endeavor Group Holdings, says it is working on a plan to take the company private; EDR rose 24%+ after hours — The owner of WME and IMG said it was exploring options, but will keep its majority interest in TKO, the company that controls UFC and WWE
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Silver Lake Partners, Sportico, Awful Announcing, Reuters, Front Office Sports, @jbflint, Deadline, The Information, Variety and The Wrap
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Mike Calia / CNBC:
Endeavor, Ari Emanuel's talent agency and sports company, announces a formal review of strategic alternatives for the company, which could mean a potential sale — - Ari Emanuel's Endeavor Group Holdings will explore strategic alternatives, which could include a sale.
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Business Wire, Los Angeles Times, @jbflint, @sherman4949, CNN, Front Office Sports, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Sources: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken told US Jewish community leaders that he asked the Qatari prime minister to tone down Al Jazeera's war rhetoric — 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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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Israeli Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi's push to shut down Al Jazeera's Israeli operations, following his attempts to overhaul Israel's media — In the days after Hamas attacked Israel earlier this month, Shlomo Karhi, the country's communications minister …
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@jon_allsop and Charles-Antoine Rouyer on LinkedIn
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Sources: Spotify plans major changes to its royalty model in Q1 2024, including a threshold of minimum annual streams before a track starts generating royalties — This is huge news - and it's been a long time coming. MBW has confirmed that Spotify is planning to make significant changes …
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Engadget, @dada_drummer, @abelowrob, @isobel_starling, @dada_drummer, @marielxloveland, @curtisstigers, @abelowrob, @swimmersjackson, @joshokane, @umaw_, @future_of_music, @p_lyons_, @nikostratis, @vinsonvalega, @chrisgraue, @dada_drummer, Jan Pauly on LinkedIn, Nick Jarjour on LinkedIn, Drew Thurlow on LinkedIn, Pete Callaghan on LinkedIn, EDMTunes, Consequence, NME, Music Business Worldwide, Billboard, The Verge, Stereogum, The Fader, CMU, Digital Music News and Music Ally, more at Techmeme »
Financial Times:
Publisher Basic Books acknowledges apparent plagiarism in UK Shadow Chancellor's Rachel Reeves new book on women economists, including from Wikipedia and blogs — ‘The Women Who Made Modern Economics’ contains examples of apparent plagiarism — A new book by Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor …
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@duncanrobinson, @hughrbrechin, @bdstanley, @katemaltby, @profchalmers, @yuanyi_z, @henrymance, @owenwalker0, @tbraithwaite and Guido Fawkes
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA rescheduled an October 25 bargaining session with studios until October 26; studios haven't consented to pay a percentage of streaming subscriptions — The sides had been expected to meet today at SAG-AFTRA headquarters in Los Angeles. The sides are now expected to meet on Thursday.
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Deadline, Gizmodo, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and TVLine
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Direqt, which offers customizable AI chatbots to ESPN, GQ, Wired, Vogue, and other publishers, raised a $4.5M seed from Todd Parker, Dan Marino, and others — A number of news and media publishers are already blocking AI web crawlers from accessing their sites, worried about the impact …
Financial Times:
The UK ICO finds that former NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose disclosed confidential and misleading information to a journalist about Nigel Farage's bank account — ICO regulator finds Alison Rose disclosed confidential and misleading information to journalist in ‘de-banking’ row
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@georgewparker, Tim Turner on LinkedIn, The i Paper, Bloomberg, City A.M. and GB News