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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge rules against The Wrap, which sued The Information for allegedly poaching a reporter, in contrast to this week's Netflix/Fox ruling on the same issue — Sharon Waxman falls flat in a poaching suit against The Information just as the entertainment industry witnesses the opposite result in a battle between Fox and Netflix.
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BuzzFeed News, @conordougherty, @bmorrissey, @thr, @mattdrange, @brentalang and @jessicalessin
Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke to step down next year, likely to be succeeded by Jeff Shell, now chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment — Steve Burke is expected to step down as CEO of NBCUniversal next year and is likely to hand the reins to Jeff Shell, who is now chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment.
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Deadline, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, TVWeek.com, Ad Age, Los Angeles Times, Fox Business, @ashkan, @variety, Grit Daily, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, @donnerkay, @jbflint, IndieWire, CNBC, @slthomas, @richlightshed, Fox News, Talking Biz News, MediaPost, NBC News, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline and The Wrap
Matt Cohen / Mother Jones:
Sources: Atlantic managers told CityLab staffers that only 7 of 13 full-time staffers and 3 contractors will be rehired after the site's sale to Bloomberg Media — Journalism has had a rough year full of layoffs across the country, and Bloomberg Media, the company owned the latest entrant …
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Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
CPJ: 30 journalists are in jail worldwide on charges of “fake news”; 65 of the 120 journalists imprisoned on these charges since 1992 were imprisoned after 2012 — As 2019 draws to a close, there are 30 journalists in jail worldwide on charges of “false news” — or, as it's also called these days, “fake news.”
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Nieman Lab and @raju
Gretchen Carlson / New York Times:
Gretchen Carlson calls on Fox to release employees from NDAs they'd been forced to sign: “buying silence instead of stopping harassment is immoral and unjust” — I still can't talk about what happened to me because of a non-disclosure agreement. — Ms. Carlson is a journalist and author.
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@stephenjleblanc, @tamaraholder, @davidfolkenflik, @jwpetersnyt, @gretchencarlson, @ejeancarroll, @liftourvoicesus, @timesupnow, Boing Boing, Newser, Mediaite, The Week, Deadline and Slate
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Liberty Media, which owns 4.8% of iHeartMedia, is seeking Justice Department permission to acquire a controlling stake in the radio broadcaster — Deal would put nation's largest radio broadcaster under same umbrella as concert promoter and satellite-radio giant SiriusXM
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@kiddchris, @matt and Radio & Television …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBCU's 42 NBC and Telemundo stations, along with its 9 RSNs, have partnered with TVSquared, which tracks response to ads to determine their effectiveness — NBCUniversal's TV stations want to keep talking to their advertisers even after their commercials have already run.
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Multichannel News and Business Wire
Jennifer Brett / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Olivia Wilde, the actress who plays the late journalist Kathy Scruggs in the movie Richard Jewell, defends her portrayal of Scruggs in a series of tweets — The actress cites “independent research” which didn't include talking to Scruggs' brother or close friends
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Over 115 newspaper boards called for Clinton's resignation after the Starr report, while only 6 coastal and national outlets have called for Trump's impeachment — While coastal outlets call for Trump's removal, most of those in states Democrats need to win are still on the sidelines.
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@jaketapper, @karoli, @garrettventry, @binajv, @johncutter, Orlando Sentinel and The Hill
David Cohen / Adweek:
Pandora begins testing interactive voice ad functionality, with Nestlé, Comcast, Unilever, and others participating in the initial test group — The audio streaming service has its own native voice assistant — Audio streaming service Pandora is expanding on the Voice Mode native voice assistant …
Discussion:
MediaPost and @pandorabrands
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
YouTube has shut down some channels posing as US news outlets, using sensationalist thumbnails and content primarily from CNN; one had 2M+ views in one weekend — Relive your favorite YouTube Moments of 2019 — New York (CNN Business)YouTube channels posing as American news outlets racked …
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@fox5vegas, @slpng_giants, @donie, @donie, @amandacarpenter, @darrenlinvill, @nathanpatin and media.plasticity.ai
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Apptopia estimates that Disney+ has been downloaded 22M+ times on mobile devices since launch; bundling with Hulu and ESPN has upped downloads of the latter two — Disney+, launched four weeks ago, has now been downloaded more than 22 million times to mobile devices alone, estimates independent app-tracking company Apptopia.
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Quartz, MacRumors and Digital Trends
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