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4:30 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.
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 …
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.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: a group led by Dovid Efune, conservative publisher of The New York Sun, bids for The Telegraph; source: backers include Oaktree and Hudson Bay Capital  —  The Scoop  —  A group of North American financiers led by a low-profile, British-born conservative publisher have emerged …
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  —  A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize …
Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz:
Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio streamer called Spoon and a short video app called Vigloo, raised ~$89.3M from PUBG publisher Krafton  —  It's the firm's largest investment in a non-gaming area to date  —  PUBG firm Krafton has invested KRW 120 billion ($89.3 million) in streaming company Spoon Labs.
 
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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”
Keith Campbell / Asheville Watchdog:
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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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
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Veteran journalist Peter Kafka is reviving his old Recode Media podcast under a new name, Channels, starting September 11 with the Vox Media podcast network
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The NYT tech guild of 600+ staff, the largest US union of tech workers with bargaining rights, authorizes a strike after over two years of talks and no contract