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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Mitch McConnell has moved to end debate on a Trump nominee that would deadlock FCC when Biden takes office and for months after, setting up a vote next week — Cloture motion could end debate and advance nominee to Senate vote next week. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) …
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
ICE has issued a subpoena demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources for emails sent to ICE attorneys; EIC “emphatically rejects” requests for source info — “This is embarrassing for ICE,” the former acting director of the agency said. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line.”
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Tribune Publishing, part-owned by Alden Global Capital, is closing the Hartford Courant's newsroom on Dec. 27; journalists will work remotely into 2021 — The Hartford Courant, the Connecticut newspaper that has been in print since 1764, when it chronicled the locals' dissatisfaction with British rule …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more — - CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
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Peter White / Deadline:
HBO Max Global head Andy Forssell says the service will expand to Latin America in mid-year 2021 and then Europe in 2021's second half; goal is 190 countries — HBO Max is looking to make original DC Comics-based content outside of the U.S. for the first time.
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Q&A with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on the logic behind simultaneous release of movies to HBO Max and theaters, economic fallout for talent, and Roku progress
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans says it will generate $2B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out $200M+ a month to its 1M+ creators — As Cardi B prepared the release for her new song “WAP,” she checked off all the usual components of her promotional plan …
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Mattie Kahn / Glamour:
Interview with Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, about covering Trump, writing her memoir, and rejecting “both sides” journalism — The morning I talk to Yamiche Alcindor is like most mornings she's had since she started covering Donald Trump in 2017 …
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Manisha Krishnan / VICE:
Canada's Global News radio host Supriya Dwivedi quits, alleges colleagues' on-air racist narratives led to threats against her; Global News is “taking action” — An email to staff said the company is in the midst of an “internal reflection” regarding systemic racism but didn't provide many details about what that means.
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Toronto Star, The Hamilton Spectator, AllAccess.com, VICE, @manishakrishnan, @jane_gerster and @chadloder
Newslaundry:
India's Times Group says it will stop the publication of Pune Mirror and will relaunch Mumbai Mirror as a weekly, but both will have a “strong digital presence” — As 2020 draws to a close, the latest casualty in the rampant layoffs and closures in the print media is Mumbai Mirror and Pune Mirror.
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The Daily Beast:
Fox staffers say Porter Berry, EIC of FoxNews.com and former Hannity producer, has shifted the site's tone to mirror the channel's opinion content — According to insiders, Hannity and the network's right-wing opinion side have managed, as if by proxy, to influence the content of FoxNews.com, the channel's website.
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Context is King, @thedailybeast, @noahshachtman and @maxwelltani
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
The remit of Facebook's Oversight Board is narrow by design and its 90-day time frame per case is too long, hindering its ability to have any lasting impact — This week saw the long-awaited public debut of Facebook's Oversight Board, a group of 20 eminent lawyers, human-rights experts …
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Nieman Lab, @campuscodi, @cjr and Oversight Board
Alex Norcia / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Enrique Abeyta, a metalhead former hedge fund manager who has bought Revolver, Inked, and The Hard Times, expanding e-commerce with long-term goals — Enrique Abeyta, a former hedge-funder, goes all in on metalhead media — Matt Saincome was used to ignoring people.
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