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5:15 PM ET, October 29, 2023

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David Zweig / Silent Lunch, The David Zweig Newsletter:
How a mistranslation and 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:
Instagram head 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 …
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Sources: BMG terminated ~40 employees on October 27; memo: the layoffs effectively “discontinued” its international marketing department for recordings and more  —  About 40 employees were let go Thursday, including executive vp, global repertoire Fred Casimir and senior vp, global repertoire Jason Hradil.
Discussion: @meetmusiclovers
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath / Axios:
Some reporters in Gaza have been able to give intermittent updates via satellite connections, as a communications blackout since October 27 cuts off the Strip  —  - “If we all got killed in Gaza ... no one will know,” Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad said in a post she was able to upload …
Washington Post:
A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes  —  The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.”  He has succeeded at only one of those goals.
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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
Daniel Frankel / Next TV:
Morgan Stanley projects that Google will lose $1.204B in the 2023 season of YouTube TV's NFL Sunday Ticket, and $1.409B annually by the 2029 season  —  Bank's equity research unit forecasts heavy losses on the out-of-market games package through 2029  —  Media business watchers always assumed …
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A360Media-owned Soap Opera Digest discontinues its weekly print run; the daytime drama magazine launched in 1975 and saw its circulation peak 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 …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA and studios plan to keep talking over the weekend; thousands of union members signed a letter saying they'd rather keep striking 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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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”
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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”
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
Leica releases the $9,480 M11-P camera, which watermarks photos with the Content Credentials metadata system, created by advocacy groups to fight misinformation
Discussion: Ars Technica
 

 
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New York Times:
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate an AI voice assistant that recognizes objects and images and has better logical reasoning than its current products

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