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3:00 PM ET, December 5, 2024

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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: the LAT now has to send Patrick Soon-Shiong opinion story headlines ahead of publication for review, after carrying a Elon Musk headline he didn't like  —  Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are “confused,” “offended,” and “frustrated.”
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Harry Litman / Talking Feds Substack:
LA Times op-ed contributor Harry Litman resigns, saying he's protesting the “repugnant and dangerous” actions to appease Trump by owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong  —  I have been a contributor to the Los Angeles Times op-ed page in some fashion for more than 15 years.
JD Knapp / The Wrap:
On Scott Jennings' podcast, Patrick Soon-Shiong said he plans to add an AI-powered “bias meter” to LAT stories and hopes to roll it out as soon as January 2025  —  “The reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story,” Patrick Soon-Shiong tells Scott Jennings
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
James Cameron's Lightstorm Vision strikes a deal with Meta to bring more premium content to the Meta Quest mixed reality headsets featuring “big-name IP”  —  The multiyear deal will make Meta Quest the exclusive mixed reality headset of Lightstorm, and is meant to turbocharge 3D content development.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ipsos: in October 2024, BBC News passed Apple News as the biggest UK news app with 14.2M users and 1.7B minutes spent to Apple News' 14M users and 1.3B minutes  —  BBC News has overtaken Apple News as the biggest news app in the UK in the year since Press Gazette's last annual ranking.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Circana: Taylor Swift's “Eras Tour Book”, released exclusively via Target, sold 814K copies over the Thanksgiving weekend, the biggest publishing launch of 2024  —  Just one retail chain was enough for Taylor Swift to have the top-selling book last week and the biggest publishing launch of 2024.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says it is not “necessarily true” that Bluesky will always be ad-free; ads could be “user intent-driven”, like running in search results  —  Bluesky has blown up this year thanks to a vibrant community of posters, user customization choices …
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Eleven high-profile staffers have left Politico since March, some apparently chafing at what insiders describe as a meddlesome editorial process by Alex Burns  —  Politico has always been defined by its scrappy, high-pressure newsroom culture.  In its almost 18 years of existence …
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Yinka Adegoke / Semafor:
Netflix denies reports it is pulling out of Nigeria, but local film producers and industry insiders say it has been cutting back on original Nigeria productions  —  The News  —  LAGOS — Netflix has denied reports it is pulling out of Nigeria but local film producers and industry insiders …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI agrees a deal with Future, which publishes Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, TechRadar, and others, to bring content from its media brands to ChatGPT  —  The deal will give ChatGPT users access to news and lifestyle content from Future's more than 200 media brands, while also displaying …
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Memo: Vox Media announces layoffs and a restructuring of lifestyle brands, affecting Thrillist, PS (PopSugar), and Eater, and product, production and tech staff  —  - Vox Media just cut an unspecified number of staff and reorganized its lifestyle brands.  — CEO Jim Bankoff said the company …
James Warrington / Telegraph:
A consortium of investors and others offers to create an investment fund of up to £50M to transform The Observer, doubling Tortoise's proposed investment  —  More generous bid may stoke striking staff's opposition to a proposed sale to Tortoise  —  This feature is available for registered users.
 
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Apple TV+ joins Prime Video Channels as a subscription add-on in Australia, Canada, and the UK, following a roll out in the US in October 2024
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Marc Burstein, the veteran ABC News executive who has overseen special reports and election coverage since 1997, plans to retire following Trump's inauguration
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Prince Harry says his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers for hacking his phone is about “accountability” and defending legitimate journalism
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Sources: AT&T, JPMorgan, and Dunkin' pull ads from Twitch after a controversial group of livestreamers alleged that Twitch is promoting antisemitic content
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Esquire corrects, and then retracts, a column by Charles P. Pierce that incorrectly claimed former President George H.W. Bush pardoned his son, Neil Bush
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Jeff Bezos says he's proud of stopping presidential endorsements at The Washington Post and is working on a plan to put the outlet “on a good footing again”
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Stanford University supports prosecution of a Stanford Daily reporter arrested at a June protest, despite evidence he was there as a journalist, not a protester