Mediagazer: Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, available in the US and elsewhere (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC:

Disney says there's no indication of a Disney+ security breach, in response to reports of thousands of users' accounts being hijacked and sold online for $3-$11 — - Thousands of Disney+ user accounts have been stolen by hackers and put up for sale on the dark web, according to multiple reports.

Discussion: ZDNet, BBC, KIFI-TV, Digital TV Europe, @kaspersky and New York Post

John Ourand / The Business Journals:

Report: Trump is in negotiations with Fox to buy a Super Bowl ad; 30-second spots are reportedly selling for $5.6M — It appears likely that President Trump's re-election campaign will buy an ad during February's Super Bowl telecast, marking what would be the first time in recent memory …

Discussion: @ourand_sbj, Awful Announcing, @ccadelago and @tim_bays

CNN:

Current and former The Hill employees: owner Jimmy Finkelstein tells editors when Trump coverage too harsh, staff in “revolt” over handling of John Solomon saga — New York (CNN Business)James “Jimmy” Finkelstein, the owner of The Hill newspaper, is not a widely known media executive …

Discussion: @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @timobrien, Raw Story, @joshdata, @waldojaquith, @ckrewson, @dangillmor, @chicana74, @froomkin, @anthony, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy and @erikwemple, Thanks:@beet_tv

Discussion: @erikwemple, Mediaite, Poynter, @zac_petkanas, @erikwemple, @jayrosen_nyu, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

Ted Johnson / Deadline:

DOJ antitrust head Makan Delrahim says the DOJ will move to end the 1940s Paramount consent decrees, which limit major distributors' control over theater chains — The Justice Department will ask a federal court to eliminate the Paramount consent decrees, the 71-year-old restrictions …

Ashley Carman / The Verge:

Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, available in the US and elsewhere — Discover Weekly but for podcasts — Spotify is taking its first step toward personalizing podcast recommendations …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Spotify, 9to5Mac, Quartz, Music Business Worldwide and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Max Willens / Digiday:

Reuters Connect, the B2B content marketplace for news publishers, adds seven national news agencies, including Australia's AAP and Argentina's LANA — With news publishers' video needs growing all the time, Reuters is hoping to build itself into a marketplace that can serve all of them.

Discussion: Reuters

BBC:

Sweden drops investigation into a rape allegation made against Julian Assange in 2010, citing weakened evidence due to time elapsed since the events in question — Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010.

Discussion: Associated Press and Washington Post

Richard Vega / The Streamable:

Amazon unveils $34.99 Fire TV Blaster, a new infrared device that brings more TV voice commands for those with a Fire TV and Echo — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — Amazon today announced their new Fire TV Blaster …

Discussion: GeekWire, CNBC and Engadget

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Patreon says it has paid out $1B+ to creators since its 2013 launch, up from $500M in Q4 2018, has surpassed 4M members, and plans on expanding to Europe — Membership services startup Patreon has paid out over $1 billion to creators since its launch in 2013, the company announced Tuesday.

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Sony Pictures Entertainment buys AT&T's 42% stake in Game Show Network in a ~$510M deal, making Sony the sole owner of the network — Sony Pictures Entertainment has bought out AT&T's minority interest in Game Show Network for about $500 million. — The deal makes Sony the sole owner of GSN.

Discussion: Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, The Wrap, Deadline and Wall Street Journal

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Interview with TV host and film producer Soledad O'Brien on her critiques of journalism in the Trump era, which she often shares to her 1.1M Twitter followers — For Soledad O'Brien, the presidency of Donald Trump has ripped the cover off a lot of things, including the fragility of American democracy …

Discussion: @jeremymbarr, @laurajmg, @frankconniff, @brianstelter, @djrothkopf, Raw Story and WPIX 11 New York

Jasper Jackson / New Statesman:

BBC and CNN editors reveal how they decide when to send a push notification, which can secure the attention of millions of people at once — The power to reach millions of phones has made deciding when to send a push notification a serious business for news outlets.

Discussion: @jaspjackson and @chrismoranuk