"I'm incredibly thrilled. I'm just so thrilled with people we hired," Swisher says of her new hires at CNN. "My pitch is that for a certain kind of reporter who likes to break news, who can break news ... it's hard to do that when you're on your own to sub-stack." She adds: "We're going to be attaching ourselves to your coattails rather than vice versa and see that as a plus, not a minus"
Netflix beat estimates for Q3 and added two million subscribers. Meta has Super-App dreams for WhatsApp, and Mark Zuckerberg is ready to take on iMessage. Plus, Twitter freezes employees' stock accounts, and an activist investor grabs a significant stake in Salesforce. Friend of Pivot Ben Smith joins Kara and Scott to talk about the state of media, and the launch of his news platform, Semafor.
You can find Ben on Twitter at @semaforben, and Semafor at semafor.com.
You can listen to Kara’s new show, On with Kara Swisher, here.
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