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8:25 AM ET, November 6, 2023

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Washington Post:
The Washington Post names former Wall Street Journal publisher and former Dow Jones CEO William Lewis as its new publisher and CEO, effective January 2, 2024  —  The Washington Post announces William Lewis as its new Publisher and CEO.  Lewis will assume the role effective Jan. 2, 2024 …
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New York Times:
A profile of The Washington Post's next CEO, Will Lewis, a UK-born former reporter and former Telegraph EIC who co-founded The News Movement for young audiences
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Sources: Spotify sets the threshold to receive royalties at 1,000 annual streams, demonetizing 0.5% of its Streamshare that earn less than five cents per month  —  Last month Music Business Worldwide broke the news that major changes were coming to Spotify's royalty model in Q1 2024.
Discussion: Music Ally, Consequence and Billboard
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Network reports losing 64K net pay TV subscribers in Q3, compared to adding 30K in Q3 2022, for 8.84M subscribers in total, down from 10.2M in Q3 2022  —  The company, led by CEO Erik Carlson and chairman Charlie Ergen, reported its third-quarter results.
Discussion: Next TV
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A look at companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for AI and copyrighted content  —  The biggest companies in AI aren't interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.
Washington Post:
A look at changes in MrBeast's hometown of Greenville, NC: studios, high-stress new jobs, random pyrotechnics, and a college course on creating YouTube content  —  Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson brought jobs to his North Carolina hometown.  Now locals are part of the show, whether they like it or not.
Karen Lema / Reuters:
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr condemns the killing of journalist Juan Jumalon, shot while broadcasting from his home, and orders an investigation  —  Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Sunday strongly condemned the killing of a Filipino journalist and ordered the police …
Discussion: Associated Press and Newser
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A survey of 12+ US newsrooms on whether their journalists can bet on sports they cover: some ban the practice, few have formal guidelines, others didn't respond  —  Sports betting has exploded in popularity and is now online in more than half of U.S. states.  Yet few newsrooms said they addressed gambling in formal guidelines.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Digital-i: fewer than 5% of Netflix's original programs in 2022 would have triggered performance bonuses under the new WGA-AMPTP contract  —  Using Hollywood's new metrics, less than 5% of streaming originals count as hit shows.  —  Let's kick things off with a fun data point.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
New York Times Magazine staff writer Jazmine Hughes resigns; editor Jake Silverstein said she violated policy by signing a letter protesting Israel's Gaza siege  —  The writer, Jazmine Hughes, who has won awards for her work, had signed another letter of protest this year.
 
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SAG-AFTRA says it's reviewing a proposal the AMPTP calls its “last, best, and final offer”; source: the offer includes a wage increase and “full” AI protections
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
A look at the crisis at Marvel, including Jonathan Majors' legal issues, its machine pumping out too much content via shows and movies, and overworked VFX staff
Alex Marshall / New York Times:
After the British Library was hit with a “cyber incident” on October 28, the library's website remains offline and scholars cannot access its online catalog
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Ad blockers saw record uninstalls in October after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Wired plans to launch a vertical on the impact of tech on US and global elections and politics in the coming weeks, run by four full-time writers and an editor
NBC News:
On Instagram, journalists and creators inside Gaza see a surge in followers as they document the Israel-Hamas war, even as Meta has broadly moved away from news
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games

Bloomberg:
MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin

 
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