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Patrick White
Sep 11, 2025
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📰 Media & Broadcasting

Netflix Turns to Amazon to Make Its Ads Easier to Buy
Source: Digiday
🔗 https://digiday.com/marketing/netflix-turns-to-amazon-to-make-its-ads-easier-to-buy/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_source=daily&utm_content=250911

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Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Shot Dead During Utah Event
Source: Journal de Québec
🔗 https://www.journaldequebec.com/2025/09/10/un-allie-de-donald-trump-charlie-kirk-atteint-par-balle-lors-dun-evenement-dans-lutah

MSNBC Apologizes After Guest Links Charlie Kirk to Death
Source: Variety
🔗 https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/msnbc-apologizes-matthew-dowd-charlie-kirk-death-1236514778

Radio-Canada Première Still on Top; 98.5 FM Declines This Summer
Source: La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/Ajn5fN?sharing=true

Serge Nedjar, Head of CNews, Named Editorial Director at Prisma Media
Source: La Croix
🔗 https://www.la-croix.com/culture/medias-serge-nedjar-patron-de-cnews-nomme-directeur-des-redactions-de-prisma-media-20250910

The Times Is Beating CNN at Its Own Game
Source: Puck News
🔗 https://puck.news/the-times-is-beating-cnn-at-its-own-game/

Radio-Canada’s Summer Programming Wins Over Audiences
Source: Radio-Canada
🔗 https://presse.radio-canada.ca/radio/14107/la-programmation-estivale-d-ici-premiere-et-d-ici-musique-toujours-plus-appreciee-des-auditeurs/

Fox News Weekend Lineup Changes Announced
Source: Axios
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/fox-news-weekend-lineup-changes

Wikipedia Wages War on Disinformation
Source: Substack (Graham Lovelace)
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Charting Gen AI
EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia wages war on AI slop after huge surge in AI-written articles
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2 months ago · 12 likes · Graham Lovelace

Sophie Nélisse, François Arnaud and Vincent Leclerc to Star in International Series
Source: La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/z8c22r?sharing=true

Where to Watch the Gemeaux Series in Competition
Source: La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/oAmC7U?sharing=true

Six Quebec Series in Competition at La Rochelle Fiction Festival
Source: SODEC
🔗 https://sodec.gouv.qc.ca/six-series-quebecoises-en-lice-au-festival-de-la-fiction-de-la-rochelle-2025

Editorial: Audiovisual Future in Quebec – War as War
Source: Le Devoir
🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/editoriaux/915792/editorial-avenir-audiovisuel-quebec-guerre-comme-guerre

Guy Massé, Quebec Radio Host, Dies at 53
Source: MonVicto
🔗 https://monvicto.com/le-monde-de-la-radio-perd-un-grand-guy-masse-seteint-a-lage-de-53-ans/


🤖 AI & Technology

AI’s Impact on Journalism: Winners, Losers, and the Vanishing Middle
Source: Twipe
🔗 https://www.twipemobile.com/ais-impact-on-journalism-winners-losers-and-the-vanishing-middle

When Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Journalism
Source: The Conversation
🔗 https://theconversation.com/quand-lintelligence-artificielle-bouscule-le-journalisme-256729

AI’s Free Web-Scraping Days May Be Over with New Licensing Protocol
Source: ZDNet
🔗 https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/ais-free-web-scraping-days-may-be-over-thanks-to-this-new-licensing-protocol

Microsoft in Talks to Buy Anthropic, Shifting Away from OpenAI
Source: The Information
🔗 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-buy-ai-anthropic-shift-openai

Reddit Launches Tools for Publishers to Track and Share Stories
Source: TechCrunch
🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/reddit-launches-tools-for-publisher-to-track-and-share-stories

X Publishes Open-Source Ranking Algorithm
Source: Social Media Today
🔗 https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-open-source-algorithm-ranking-factors/759702

Vimeo to Be Acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B All-Cash Deal
Source: TechCrunch
🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-to-be-acquired-by-bending-spoons-in-1-38b-all-cash-deal

Meet ChatEurope: The New Innovative Chatbot for European News
Source: The Fix
🔗 https://thefix.media/2025/09/04/meet-chateurope-the-new-innovative-chatbot-for-european-news

Browser Trends and AI Integration in 2025
Source: InfoBref
🔗 https://infobref.com/protechno-tendance-navigateurs-ia-2025-09


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📺 Politics, Power & Media Influence

Fox News and the Jeffrey Epstein Vortex
Source: Decoding Fox News (Substack)
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Decoding Fox News
Fox News: The Jeffrey Epstein Vortex
Last week most American media companies broadcast live coverage of a humble press conference organized by adult survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking criminal enterprise in front of the Capitol building…
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2 months ago · 37 likes · Decoding Fox News

No Sanction for Radio-Canada Host After Cutting Singh’s Mic in Debate
Source: Le Devoir
🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/916068/aucun-blame-patrice-roy-avoir-coupe-micro-jagmeet-singh-debat-chefs

Lachlan Murdoch Consolidates Control of Fox Empire
Source: The New York Times
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/media/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news-corp.html

Lachlan Murdoch’s Strategy Keeps Fox Competitive
Source: ABC News
🔗 https://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-business/2025-09-09/lachlan-mudochs-strategy-has-seen-fox-compete-with/105755414

Murdoch Empire: Lachlan’s Victory Over Sibling Rivals
Source: The Guardian
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/09/lachlan-control-murdoch-empire-but-deal-win-sibling-rivals

Boston Globe’s High-Stakes Investigation of… the Boston Globe
Source: Semafor
🔗 https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2025/inside-the-boston-globes-high-stakes-investigation-of-the-boston-globe

Amy Coney Barrett and the 22nd Amendment Debate on Trump’s Third Term
Source: Poynter
🔗 https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/22nd-amendment-amy-coney-barrett-third-term-trump/


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