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8:40 AM ET, September 12, 2024

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Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: the Harris-Trump debate drew ~67.14M US viewers across multiple networks, almost 16M more viewers than the final Biden-Trump debate in June  —  That number was up 31% from the 51.266 million who tuned in to Trump's debate with president Joe Biden (from CNN) in June, before the latter dropped out to endorse Harris.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
How Linsey Davis and David Muir firmly pursued real-time fact-checking to build guardrails around Trump in the ABC News debate between Trump and Harris  —  Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.
Tom Davidson / London Evening Standard:
UK counter-terror police are involved in the investigation of the sudden death of 32-year-old journalist David Holmes, host of the Ukraine: The Latest podcast  —  David Knowles was host of the successful Ukraine: The Latest podcast and Russia had banned him from entering the country
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed  —  Bluesky, the social networking startup now nearing 10 million users thanks to X's ban in Brazil, will now allow users to share videos …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The UK's Mill Media expects £1M in revenue in 2025 and says it is leaving Substack for Ghost to save money and to develop a direct relationship with readers  —  Manchester Mill and its sister titles are moving off newsletter platform Substack for the first time and onto websites hosted by competitor Ghost.
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
California's Google deal to fund journalism might leave out startups and outlets with annual revenue under $100K/year, but finalizing details could take months  —  “We don't know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won't for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them)."
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed down over 10% after Trump's debate with Harris, ending at their lowest level since they began publicly trading  —  The share price of Trump Media plunged more than 13% on Wednesday, a day after majority shareholder Donald Trump gave …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes' unionized editorial staff passes a vote of no confidence in CEO Mike Federle and chief content officer Randall Lane, over pay issues and more  —  The unionized editorial staff of Forbes, represented by The NewsGuild of New York, has overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence …
Discussion: @talkingbiznews
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph:
Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that offers blockchain micropayments to artists, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets  —  The fresh capital brings Tune.fm's total funding to $80 million.  The funds will be used to reward artists and users within the platform.
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Calum Jaspan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Nine CEO Mike Sneesby steps down and will depart the company at the end of September after over three years in the role; CFO Matt Stanton is named interim CEO  —  Nine chief executive Mike Sneesby will depart the company at the end of September after 3½ years in the role.
 
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage”
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An interview with former Washington Post Editor Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos' purchase of the outlet, Trump's election in 2016, and his memoir, Collision of Power
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
A US district judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, set to take effect on October 1, saying the law likely violates the 1A
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
A group of Democratic senators asks the FTC and DOJ to probe whether AI tools that summarize online content like news may amount to anticompetitive practices
Wes Davis / The Verge:
ESPN's AI-generated articles recapping women's soccer games are bland and basic, failing to note key moments like one player's final game and emotional farewell
 

 
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

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Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights, and says flight safety was not impacted
 
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