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News: The Sam Francisco Standard is shutting down Charter, the future-of-work site co-founded by @delaney. A source sent me a Slack screenshot from SF Standard CEO Griffin Gaffney, who said Charter employees will be offered “closure separation packages.”
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NEW: @Variety has new exec structure at Fox's digital ops following acquisition of Roku *Paul Cheesbrough's duties expand to oversee all of Fox's digital businesses *Anjali Sud, CEO of Tubi, will leave *Charlie Collier, president of Roku Media, to exit variety.com/2026/tv/news/pau…
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News: Straight Arrow News (@StraightArrow__), the online news site focused on “unbiased” coverage and founded by billionaire Joe Ricketts in 2021, is shutting down, staffers were told in a meeting today.
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SCOOP: Anthropic has signed a content licensing deal—its first—with the Associated Press. Through it, Anthropic gains access to election data in exchange for citing and paying the AP. The deal marks a pivot for Anthropric, which had previously eschewed these arrangements.
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Salon, one of the first web publications, is shutting down. It began publishing in 1995. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
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Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content (@markstenberg3 / Adweek) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content (@markstenberg3 / Adweek) (Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)
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Congratulations to Gina Hinojosa - the first Plan II Honors Program alumni to be governor of Texas
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Gina Hinojosa, la nueva gobernadora de Texas. De ascendencia mexicana y de los SAN ANTONIO SPURS 🇲🇽🩶
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Breaking: James Talarico has defeated Ken Paxton in the race for U.S. Senate. He has become the first Democrat to win a statewide race in Texas since 1994 and the first of his party elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since 1988.
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Faarking hell: Canva announces deep lay offs hitting 22 per cent of its employees.
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We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026). arkolith.com/news/news-micr… therepublic.com/?p=843020 governor.ny.gov/news/safer-str…
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NEW: In a huge departure from its 21 year history as an open web champion, @Reddit is moving to become a primarily logged-in experience — I spoke w CEO Steve Huffman & COO Jen Wong about why now, and what it will look like. Takeaways: 👀Homepage will still be accessible to logged-out visitors 🔎Logged-in users can still be anonymous More on @axios below:
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Insane news week for future of media. -Google finally seeing AI effect on search business -DoorDash/Instacart ad businesses to combine -Walmart audiences into Tv -People layoffs and Conde ad business huge miss -Instagram long form coming to tv
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Huge scoop from @MarkStenberg3:
SCOOP: Condé Nast is on track to fall around $40 million short of its 2H targets for its U.S. advertising business, according to internal documents. In Q4 alone, it’s forecasting roughly $130 million in U.S. ad bookings, more than $35 million below its internal goal. ⬇️
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SCOOP: Condé Nast is on track to fall around $40 million short of its 2H targets for its U.S. advertising business, according to internal documents. In Q4 alone, it’s forecasting roughly $130 million in U.S. ad bookings, more than $35 million below its internal goal. ⬇️
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In this week’s On Background, ADWEEK’s @MarkStenberg3 reports that Condé Nast is forecasting roughly $130 million in U.S. advertising bookings for the fourth quarter, more than $35 million below its internal goal. adweek.it/4iqsD6O
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Hollywood’s most controversial actress would like a few words… or prompts. At the Industry Leadership Summit, @MarkStenberg3 interviewed Tilly Norwood, the AI generated actress from Particle6, in a live conversation. Read more 👉 adweek.it/4iz9fpj
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News: @delaney, the co-founder of Charter and the former top editor of The San Francisco Standard, is joining NBC News as head of digital content and subscription. Memo —
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