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Sources: TikTok plans to open studios in several cities, including LA, where creators can livestream and sell products, a strategy that worked for Douyin — When TikTok creators start a livestream to chat about their new favorite hairbrush, dog toy or cleaning product, they're usually doing so from a setup in their own home.
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TikTok is testing a feature that could make all posts shoppable, by identifying objects in videos and prompting users to “find similar items on TikTok Shop”
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MediaPost, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Insider Intelligence, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, @carnage4life, The Information, The Messenger and Ad Age


Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 employees, amid media industry-wide cuts — The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday …
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The Wrap, @rafat, @panzer, @bayareawriter, @mjburnsy, @lorenzofb, @thekenyeung@threads.net, @markstenberg3@threads.net, @martinsfp@threads.net, @etherington, Talking Biz News, @harriblogs, @mjburnsy, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @fredericl@threads.net, @morgan_sung, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @catherineshu, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @patrickcmiller@infosec … and @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, more at Techmeme »


The Ankler hires David Lidsky as executive editor and signs a deal to bring Ankler reporting to LAist's radio station, website, and social media accounts — The Ankler, the entertainment media startup from veteran Hollywood editor Janice Min and insider columnist Richard Rushfield …
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The Ankler, David Lidsky on LinkedIn and @janicemin


The Oregonian plans to appeal a court order to not publish info from docs that a lawyer accidentally sent it, saying prior restraint goes against 1A — A federal judge on Friday ordered The Oregonian/OregonLive not to publish information from documents it obtained last week from an attorney …

The US Chamber of Commerce sues the FCC to overturn rules that prevent digital discrimination in access to broadband services, saying that they are overly broad — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and two Texas business groups sued the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday seeking …
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Fox News


The NYT starts hiring for a team that will explore the use of generative AI in the newsroom “to help with reporting and how the Times is presented to readers” — The New York Times will begin building a team to explore the use of generative AI in its newsroom.
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@palewire, @palewire, @chris@threads.net and @zseward@threads.net


WPP plans to spend £250M on AI development in 2024 and make similar investments in the future, as part of an overhaul of its operations to meet client demands — New technology ‘will enhance, not replace, human creativity’, says chief executive Mark Read
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Adweek, The Mirror, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, PRWeek, Reuters, Jordan Green on LinkedIn, @colchlondoner, Shares Magazine, Campaign Asia, @chirpychet, Sharecast, @wpp, Investomania, Bloomberg and Verdict


Minute Media, owner of The Players' Tribune, raised “tens of millions”, per its CEO, at a $1B+ valuation, and bought sports streaming service STN Video — Minute Media, the parent company to sports and entertainment sites like The Players' Tribune and Mental Floss …
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@kendallbaker and Minute Media


Sources: Nelson Peltz's Trian plans to publish its recommendations for Disney, including bundling ESPN+ with a larger player interested in sports, like Netflix — Peltz's Trian Fund Management LP will publish a so-called white paper detailing its investment thesis and recommendations …
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The Streamable, @tim_bays, @aagave, Cord Cutters News and Observer


The US sentences IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn to five years in prison for leaking the tax returns of Donald Trump and other Americans to media outlets — A former U.S. Internal Revenue Service contractor was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for leaking the tax records …
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Associated Press, @dnlbrns, @dnlbrns, @michaelmechanic, @dnlbrns, @mattbruenig, @alex_sammon, @joshgerstein, @jeffhauser, @jeffhauser, @maxkennerly, @politicalmath, CBS News, HuffPost, New York Times, Politico, The Daily Beast, Courthouse News Service, The Messenger, Washington Post, The Hill, Wall Street Journal and Fox News


A look at the extreme challenges of reporting as a local journalist from Gaza, where at least 76 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 7 — From outside Gaza, the scale of death and destruction is impossible to grasp, shrouded by communications blackouts …
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@cpjmena, @barrasreport, The Messenger and CBS News


Sources: Sky is planning to cut about 1,000 jobs across its business in the UK, as more customers switch from satellite to digital-only; Sky employs ~27K people — Broadcaster set to talk in coming weeks to staff in teams that could be affected — Sky is planning to cut about 1,000 jobs across …
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The Guardian, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter