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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount's Shari Redstone backs CBS co-host Tony Dokoupil after execs criticized his work and says she lacks editorial control but “something needs to be done”  —  The mogul, who cut a deal to sell Paramount — including CBS — to Skydance earlier this year, weighed in on the topic on Wednesday.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:10 minutes ago
Filing: the FT reports 2023 revenue up 5% YoY to £444M, operating profit down 33% YoY to £9M, and 1.4M paid subscribers, of which 1.3M were digital subscribers  —  Advertising at the FT saw its best year since 2012.  —  The Financial Times made more than half a billion pounds …
Tovia Smith / NPR:
A look at the bidding war for Alex Jones' Infowars and its parent company Free Speech Systems, where some would-be-buyers just want to bury it  —  Both fans and foes are getting in on the bidding war for Alex Jones' media company — or at least trying to.  —  Some harbor hopes …
Gary Miles / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pulitzer winning investigative reporter and author Donald L. Barlett, half of the famous Barlett and Steele team at The Philadelphia Inquirer, dies at age 88  —  Donald L. Barlett, 88, of Philadelphia, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Inquirer …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9  —  Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
Priyanka.G / Reuters:
Spotify launches its free tier in South Korea after entering the market in 2021; South Korean artists have 5.8B+ average monthly streams on the platform  —  Spotify's (SPOT.N) free music and podcasts service option is now available in South Korea, the audio streaming platform said on Thursday, as it looks to widen its audience base.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
The IAB, EFF, and other groups urge the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider an August decision that TikTok wasn't protected from liability by Section 23  —  The Interactive Advertising Bureau and other business organizations are urging a federal appellate court to reconsider a recent ruling …
Discussion: @techfreedom
Bloomberg:
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services  —  Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
Jem Aswad / Variety:
A look at TikTok's negotiations with indie music labels and the November 1 end of its deal with Merlin, the trade group that represents 500+ smaller companies  —  “TikTok proposed paying our artists and songwriters at a rate that is a fraction of the rate that similarly situated major social platforms pay …
Discussion: Music Ally
Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
An interview with Taylor Lorenz about “dancing on the grave” of legacy media, the creator economy coming for journalism, resigning from WaPo, and more  —  A reporter known for chronicling the “extremely online” is making the leap to the creator economy.  The most surprising thing is that she waited this long.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A group of Wikipedia editors form the WikiProject AI Cleanup to “combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content” on the website  —  A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Derek Jeter, co-founder of The Players' Tribune, launches Cap 2 Productions to produce TV and streaming content, with projects planned for ESPN, Apple, and more  —  The New York Yankees legend launches a shingle focused on family-friendly docs and scripted sports-related projects as buyers binge on star athlete-driven content
Discussion: Sportico
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case  —  - Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data  — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness
 
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies
Max Tani / Semafor:
Blockworks, one of the biggest crypto media companies, says it will be profitable this year and launches a consulting business called Blockworks Advisory
Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: among 200 politically focused TikTok accounts with viral posts, ~20% were news influencers, as news influencers take a bigger role in the US election
Discussion: @azi and Bloomberg
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Paul Linford / HoldtheFrontPage:
Internal memo: UK publisher Reach tells staff that journalists “on a general shift” need to write “at least eight stories a shift” to help drive page views
ProPublica:
A once family-owned rural Ohio newspaper that is now owned by Metric Media plays a key part in an effort by fossil fuel interests to kill a proposed solar farm