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David Zweig / Silent Lunch, The David Zweig Newsletter:
How a mistranslation or copying bad reporting may have led to wide coverage that 500+ people died in the Gaza hospital blast; no outlet quoted a primary source — I asked a dozen reporters and news outlets for the source of a statement they attributed to Hamas. None of them answered.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content” — Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers to create different apps and experiences around Threads.
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Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Source: during an all-hands, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino referenced ambitions to create XWire, a press release service that would rival Cision's PR Newswire — Executives at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, said they see YouTube and LinkedIn as future competitors …
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The Verge, Fortune, Mediaite, @2xaught7.bsky.social, Thomas Kramer on LinkedIn, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Insider, Cointelegraph, Boing Boing and Financial Times
GB News:
Former UK PM Boris Johnson plans to join GB News as a presenter, program maker, and commentator in 2024, ahead of the UK general election and the US elections — Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson will play a key role on Britain's news channel — Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson …
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The Guardian, The Guardian, @gbnews, PinkNews, The Drum, @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social, @chrismsutcliffe, @emilybell, @arusbridger, @pippacrerar, @borisjohnson, @tobyontv, @jamesrwithers, @daithaigilbert, Adweek, Newser, Financial Times, BBC, Politico, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Hollywood Reporter, RTÉ, Press Gazette, Mediaite, @tobyontv.bsky.social, Deadline, The Independent, Variety, Metro, HuffPost, Bollyinside and Guido Fawkes
Daniel Frankel / Next TV:
Morgan Stanley: Google will lose $1.2B+ in the 2023 season of YouTube TV's NFL Sunday Ticket, with annual losses projected to reach $1.4B+ by the 2029 season — Bank's equity research unit forecasts heavy losses on the out-of-market games package through 2029
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The Desk, @mikeozanian, @minddestroyedx, @bsmstaff, @badgerhugh, @tuxedokirby, @mediafinance, @burt_mo, Barrett Media, The Streamable, Sportico, The Streamable and Cord Cutters News
Emma Roth / The Verge:
X adds a $16/mo. Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/mo. Basic plan with a “small boost” but no checkmark — X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has introduced a new $16 per month Premium Plus plan …
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@premium, @tomwarren, The Indian Express, @david_leavitt, @wazzcrypto, @tailosivetech, @harrymccracken, @lindayax, @premium, @minimaxir, MediaPost, @sfdb@mastodon.social, The Information, @BrendanSinclair …, TechCrunch, @ernie@writing.exchange, 9to5Mac, @2xaught7.bsky.social and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A360Media-owned Soap Opera Digest is ending its weekly print run; the daytime drama magazine first launched in 1975 with its circulation peaking at 1.5M in 1991 — Staffers were informed of the decision Friday, according to sources. A spokesperson for a360Media, the company that owns the brand …
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@metsfaninphilly, @mstracymartin, @writerguy5, @donaldjrpeebles, @mattfarris, @lauren_a2000, @berrymichael, Soap Hub and Soaps.com
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA and studios plan to keep talking over the weekend; thousands of union members signed a letter saying they'd keep striking rather than take a bad deal — The sessions may be held virtually, rather than in person. — The two sides met on Friday for the third day this week at SAG-AFTRA headquarters.
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@sagaftra, @feliciaday, @aysrick, Rolling Stone, @therati, AllYourScreens.com, Deadline, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, NBC News, Reuters, Deadline, The Messenger and IndieWire
Alyssa Boyle / AdExchanger:
Disney plans to expand its advertising options on Disney+ in November, including biddable inventory, data from its first-party audience graph, and geotargeting — Disney is celebrating the first birthday of ad-supported Disney+ with a new slate of targeting and measurement options for advertisers.
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Jane Ha on LinkedIn, The Walt Disney Company, MediaPost, Gizmodo, The Verge and The Hollywood Reporter
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: BuzzFeed is in advanced talks to sell Complex Networks to e-commerce company Ntwrk for less than $140M; BuzzFeed paid ~$300M to acquire Complex in 2021 — BuzzFeed is negotiating a sale of much of Complex Networks for under $140 million, less than half of what it paid to acquire it two years ago.
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@billkuchman, @juwanthewriter and Adweek
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Hasan Minhaj records a video in which he calls The New Yorker's profile of him “so needlessly misleading”; the magazine defends its work as “carefully reported” — The comedian releases a 20-minute video to THR giving his perspective on the profile, which accused him of fabricating details in his stand-up.
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@kaivanshroff, Fox News, @mathewi, @claremalone, @shittybonmots, @wajahatali, @ryangrim, @claylasoul, @autumntweets, @kaivanshroff, Slate, New York Post, Hasan Minhaj on YouTube, The Guardian, NPR, Bollyinside, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, @ernie@writing.exchange, @alexandra-ewing.bsky.social, @runwithskizzers.bsky.social, @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, New York Times, New York Daily News, The Week, Consequence, Variety, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Us Weekly, The Messenger, The Daily Beast, Hollywood Life, UPROXX, TVLine, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter
Zachary Small / New York Times:
Artforum fires EIC David Velasco after the prestigious outlet's open letter on the Israel-Hamas war “was widely misinterpreted as a statement from the magazine” — David Velasco was removed after the magazine's publishers said there was a flawed editorial process behind …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon Q3: ad revenue up 26% YoY to $12B, vs. $10.4B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $10.1B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $87.9B — - Amazon blew past analyst expectations for revenue and earnings in the third quarter. — Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company has “barely scraped the surface” in figuring out how to integrate ads into its video, commerce, and grocery offerings
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TechCrunch, Nick Ortega on LinkedIn, Ad Age, @damon.kiesow.net, Variety, The Information, NBC 7 San Diego and The Register
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