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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook; 26%, from YouTube; 16%, Instagram; 14%, TikTok; 12%, X; 8%, Reddit; and 5%, Nextdoor and LinkedIn — Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it's still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans.
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Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:
Survey: 14% of US adults regularly get news on TikTok in 2023, up from 3% in 2020: 32% aged 18 to 29, 15% aged 30 to 49, 7% aged 50 to 64, and 3% aged 65+ — A small but growing share of U.S. adults say they regularly get news on TikTok. This is in contrast with many other social media sites …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
León Krauze, a top anchor for Univision's news division, leaves the network amid reports that the outlet has shifted to a much more favorable coverage of Trump — - Michael Strahan Returns To ‘Good Morning America’ After Time Off Due Personal Family Matters — Update
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Variety, Los Angeles Times, Adweek, The Wrap, Media Moves, The Hollywood Reporter and Washington Post
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
The FCC adopts a rule to prevent limiting broadband access by “income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin”; ISPs and the GOP complain — Industry and GOP say rule goes too far, warn of a chilling effect on broadband investment
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
On his last day as News Corp's chair, Rupert Murdoch said he hopes to “continue an active role in the company” and reflected on his “fortunate” life — “We should all be concerned about the suppression of debate by an intolerant elite who regard differing opinions as anathema …
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CNN, New York Post, @waywardboobs.bsky.social, @brianstelter and NPR
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Reuters:
Members of the The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party ask Tim Cook to explain the abrupt ending of The Problem With Jon Stewart on TV+ — U.S. lawmakers asked Apple Inc to explain the abrupt end of political comedian Jon Stewart's television show on its streaming service …
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Variety, The Verge, Ars Technica, The Wrap, CNN, Chris Fenton on LinkedIn, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, MediaPost and Business Insider
New York Times:
US and European newsrooms face tough choices over which Israel-Hamas war photographs to publish, complicated by disinformation and photojournalist restrictions — Digital disinformation and restrictions on photojournalists have complicated decision-making about the visual chronicle of the Israel-Hamas war.
New York Times:
Interviews with 100+ people detail David Zaslav's WBD tenure, including cost cuts and a 50%+ stock drop, during a tumultuous time for the entertainment industry — A merger put him in the driver's seat at Warner Brothers, one of the industry's biggest studios. It has been a wild ride.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Meng Ru Kuok, the CEO and founder of Singapore-based Caldecott Music Group, acquires Gawker's trademarks and domain, but not archives, from Bustle Digital Group — Get ready for Gawker 3.0: The twice-shuttered blog site has a new owner, who plans to bring the gossipy pop-culture brand back to life — but not in exactly the same way.
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MediaPost, The Wrap, @bmorrissey, @jackshafer and @michaelroston
404 Media:
The Guardian takes down a 2002 letter written by Osama Bin Laden criticizing US support of Israel, after the letter went viral on TikTok — “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared today on social media without its original context. Therefore we have decided to take it down."
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The Wrap, @normative, @normative, @normative, @stevesi, @parkermolloy, @semaforben, @allezlesboulez, @jason_koebler, @yashar, @buccocapital, @jason_koebler, @seyitaylor and KTSM-TV
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Memos: BuzzFeed Publisher Dao Nguyen steps down, replaced by Jessica Probus as the company moves from emphasizing its aggregated network to growing its brands — Veteran executive Jessica Probus will step up as its new publisher — Culture and entertainment publisher BuzzFeed Inc. unveiled …
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@bmorrissey, @maxwellstrachan and Jess Probus on LinkedIn
Music Business Worldwide:
Stability AI VP of Audio Ed Newton-Rex resigns, saying he disagrees with the company's view that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is fair use — Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.
Thomas Wilde / GeekWire:
Amazon plans to merge its Comixology app with Kindle on December 4, and automatically integrate all comics that Comixology users own into their Kindle libraries — Amazon will merge its digital comics storefront Comixology with Kindle on Dec. 4, which will also involve the official end of service for the standalone Comixology app.
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The Beat, Nerdvana, EconoTimes, @comixology, Bleeding Cool News, ICv2, AIPT, 9to5Google, Good e-Reader, The Verge, IGN, Comic Book, BetaNews and Stevivor, more at Techmeme »
Ben Smith / @semaforben:
Internal memo: opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo is leaving The New York Times — Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo leaving the New York Times, per an internal note from opinion editor.
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@howardkushlan, @fmanjoo, @rachelmetz, @jasonabbruzzese, @gadyepstein, @fmanjoo, @followtheh, @gamoid and @samuelaadams
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