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Sources: Bari Weiss has taken a hands-on approach in her first days at CBS, helping book big guests and urging executives to find leakers in the newsroom — Ms. Weiss, an unusual leader for a broadcast news division, has floated ideas for live events and asked journalists why they are seen as biased.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: Paramount Skydance plans to begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, cutting around 2,000 US jobs as part of its $2B cost-cutting initiative — Paramount Skydance employees are facing a broad across-the-board culling under David Ellison's new management regime the week of Oct. 27, Variety has confirmed.
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS — It comes in response to creators' complaints about the reach of posts containing links. — Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement.
Lauren Hilgers / The Guardian:
A profile of Wang Jian, a journalist who has moved to the US in 2018 due to increasing press restrictions in Hong Kong and has built a news operation on YouTube — Once a stalwart of Hong Kong's journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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Corbin Bolies / Yahoo News:
A look at the TV journalists who left corporate jobs and built businesses that enabled them to hire dozens of people, using Substack, YouTube, Beehiiv, and more — Journalists who built their careers in television are finding comparable levels of success, letting them scale themselves up outside of their former corporate confines
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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Yusra Farzan / LAist:
The LAPD files an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction restricting the use of force against the press as it creates “impracticable standards” — With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever.
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Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers — It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions …
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Ethan Shanfeld / Variety:
How Lionsgate built a roster of about 15 TikTok movie fans to make “fan edits” to market movies, using language that feels “native to the platform” — What if a movie trailer had filters and huge neon text, and was set to, say, a Dua Lipa song?
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Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies — The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Cumulus Media sues Nielsen, accusing it of anticompetitive moves by requiring the purchase of local radio ratings data in order to access its national analytics — U.S. radio network Cumulus Media has sued ratings giant Nielsen in federal court, accusing it of illegally leveraging its dominance …
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