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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.
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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)."
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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
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
WBD and Charter sign a multiyear renewal deal that will make the Ad Lite tier of Max available on Spectrum TV Select packages for no extra fee — The deal is in line with other agreements Charter has struck with Disney and Paramount that add streamers to its cable bundle.
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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 …
Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro / Bloomberg:
Academic publisher Springer Nature is planning a Frankfurt IPO in 2024, after canceling in 2018 and 2020; in 2023, it had €511M in profit and €1.85B in revenue — - Deal to include new and existing shares held by BC Partners — It's the first sizable IPO in Europe after the summer lull
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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.
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Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
Oahu Publications, which owns Hawaii newspapers, is using AI-generated newscasters on the YouTube and Instagram channels of The Garden Island, launched in 1902 — A company that owns several newspapers in Hawaii is using AI-generated newscasters to create video news segments against the wishes …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon's Prime Video adds AI-driven “Prime Insights”, expands interactive ad formats, and adds 50 new brands as advertisers for Thursday Night Football — As it gets ready to kick off its third season of exclusive streams of Thursday Night Football, Prime Video is rolling …
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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 …
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Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph:
Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that pays artists via blockchain micropayments, 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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