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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” -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 — The Scoop -
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 -
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