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9:45 PM ET, September 9, 2024

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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
In the first day of the antitrust trial focused on ads, US prosecutors allege Google abused its size to dominate the sector through acquisitions and more  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google sought to dominate all sides of online advertising technology by controlling competitors and customers …
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Washington Post:
The US DOJ's case against Google's ad business may benefit Meta, Amazon, and news organizations that pay Google a cut of revenue for brokering their website ads  —  Federal prosecutors are seeking a divestment of Google's multibillion-dollar online advertising business, saying its monopoly power harms advertisers and publishers.
New York Times:
Business Insider names Jamie Heller, the business editor of The Wall Street Journal, to lead its newsroom as its next editor in chief  —  Ms. Heller spent two decades at The Wall Street Journal, most recently leading corporate coverage.  —  Business Insider is expected to name Jamie Heller …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Former SI and The Players' Tribune executives launch OffBall, a site, newsletter, and social feed with curated sports news from social media and other sources  —  The Scoop  —  A new brand is hoping to provide a hub for the booming conversation around the culture of sports.
New York Times:
Insiders detail how Bob Iger undermined and outmaneuvered Bob Chapek and returned to power at Disney, as the question of how Iger misjudged Chapek still lingers  —  At 5 p.m. on Feb. 25, 2020, Bob Chapek and Bob Iger settled into matching directors' chairs on the Disney studio lot for a series of live media interviews.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, to clone the voices for recordings through a royalty-sharing model  —  The audiobook service is inviting some US-based narrators to train artificial intelligence on their voices
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Some creators move from unpredictable algorithm-driven platforms to subscription services; YouTube group The Try Guys launched 2nd Try, a $5/month streamer  —  The Try Guys, one of YouTube's most established creator groups, have successfully abandoned their reliance on Google's algorithms …
Discussion: @sameoldcircuit and TechCrunch
Reuters:
Indian news agency ANI sues Netflix for using “copyright archival footage of ANI without licence” and the ANI trademark, in a drama about a 1999 hijacking  —  Indian news agency ANI has sued Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and producers of an Indian series about a plane hijack …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The WSJ offers advertisers a performance guarantee between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15 to dissuade them from pausing ad campaigns during the US presidential election  —  Some brands are going dark for the presidential election.  WSJ has data to convince them otherwise.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jorge Ramos, one of the best-known Spanish-language TV journalists in the US, plans to leave Univision at the end of 2024
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
An interview with Brian Stelter about Reliable Sources, which will now publish each weekday morning “in beta mode”, with a shorter and “sharper” format
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter James Grimaldi is leaving the WSJ after 12 years to become the top editor of the National Catholic Reporter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
DirecTV files FCC complaint, accusing Disney of bad faith negotiations and trying to block DirecTV from taking legal action against its anticompetitive demands
 Earlier Picks: 
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Nell McCafferty, whose writing on women's rights and gay rights helped turn Ireland into one of the most progressive European countries, died on Aug. 11 at 80
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A look at the US Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging copyright ruling favoring publishers over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81