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4:30 PM ET, November 29, 2024

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Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China sentences journalist Dong Yuyu, an ex-Nieman Fellow whose work has appeared in Chinese editions of the NYT and FT, to seven years in prison for espionage  —  Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Publishers at The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and other outlets report more referral traffic from Bluesky than from X despite fewer followers on the former  —  The audience editor for Guardian Australia has said that its posts to the new social network Bluesky delivered more referral traffic …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Ofcom: 22.9M UK adults visited Reddit in May 2024, up 47% YoY, making it the fifth biggest social media platform in the UK, above X's 22.1M and LinkedIn's 18.3M  —  Discussion platform takes fifth place in rankings and is the fastest growing large social media platform in the UK
Ismail Shakil / Reuters:
Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more  —  Canada's Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet's Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog said on Thursday.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK Culture Secretary says the BBC's license fee will rise with inflation until 2027; from April 2025, it will rise £5 to £174.50, bringing in another ~£75M  —  The BBC license fee will return to rising with inflation again until 2027, as new Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy continues …
Josh Rubin / Toronto.com:
Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use  —  A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …
Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
Writers and publishers criticize Spines, which raised a $16M seed round and charges authors $1,200 to $5,000 to use AI to edit and distribute their books  —  Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books proofread, designed and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence
Meghnad Bose / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year winner, an Afghan woman who works anonymously and covers the plight of women under Taliban rule  —  The winner of this year's Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.  —  On Monday evening, media figures gathered …
 
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
London Standard EIC Dylan Jones steps down two months after relaunching the daily as a weekly newspaper and 18 months after taking on the role
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
John Buckley / Capital Brief:
Sources: a group of Australian media organizations including Seven West, ABC, SBS, and ACM forms an alliance to bargain collectively with AI firms
Associated Press:
A US federal judge dismisses a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Ray Epps, who said Fox aired conspiracy theories about his January 6 riot involvement
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses a Netflix shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of downplaying the impact of account sharing on subscriber growth
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