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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Nielsen: CNN averaged 1.73M viewers between Nov. 4 and Dec. 6, more than double a year ago, and the first time since Dec. 2001 that it beat Fox News for a month — NEW YORK (AP) — Since the presidential election, CNN has been on one of its best competitive rolls in almost two decades …
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YouTube Official Blog:
YouTube says it will remove any content published from today that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 US Presidential election outcome — Over the past weeks and months, we've seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew: 11% of US adults report using Google News often, and 24% say they use it sometimes; 3% say they get news from Apple News often and 10% do so sometimes — One major challenge researchers may encounter in designing surveys about news consumption: Does the U.S. public understand the range …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Internal email: Google tells its ad partners that it will lift the post-election political ad ban on December 10 — Google informed its advertising partners on Wednesday that beginning Dec. 10, it will lift the post-election political ad ban that went into effect after polls closed on Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios.
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Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers — - Law to reflect any value platforms generate for publishers — Legislation has turned Australia into a test case for action
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Austin NewsGuild:
Journalists at the 150-year-old Austin American-Statesman and its six community newspapers announce plans to unionize — Contact: Austin NewsGuild, austinnewsguild@gmail.com — AUSTIN, Texas — Journalists at the Austin American-Statesman and its six community newspapers announced Wednesday …
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Lucinda Southern / Adweek:
Time for Kids now has 63,000 subscribers to its paid tier, which was introduced in August; The Week Junior had 75,000 paid subscribers in November — Time's youth-focused title is nearly profitable — Magazine publisher Time has seen a significant boost in paid subscribers for its title aimed at school-age students, Time for Kids.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
ICE says it “will not enforce the summons” demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources “at this time” — “The media outlet subsequently declined to provide details regarding the sources of the unauthorized disclosure,” ICE said in a statement. “ICE will not enforce the summons.”
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Media says it plans to launch Fox Weather, an ad-supported streaming weather service, in Q3 2021, initially as a mobile app — If the winds are shifting around cable-news in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox News Media intends to cover them: The company plans to launch …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Some Spider Studios, one of the largest digital media publishers for parents, will have revenue of $35M this year, including $5M in profit — Some Spider Studios, one of the largest digital media publishers for parents, will bring in $35 million in revenue this year …
Archie Bland / The Guardian:
Ofcom proposes radical shake-up of UK broadcasting rules, including encouraging streaming services like Netflix to provide public service programming — Streaming firms could provide public service programming in an increasingly digital world — Streaming services, such as Netflix and Now TV …
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
NBC Universal says Peacock, which launched in mid-April, now has 26M subscribers, up from 22M in October, and is seeing strong advertising demand — NBCUniversal's Peacock, its advertising video-on-demand streamer, has now climbed to 26 million subscribers and is seeing strong advertising demand.
Michael J. Socolow / Nieman Lab:
Substack isn't a new model for journalism, but it's better than the “tip jar” financing model and might help retrain readers to pay for good journalism — Since 2017, Substack has provided aspiring web pundits with a one-stop service for distributing their work and collecting fees from readers.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
WarnerMedia's decision to debut 2021 films on HBO Max had blindsided creatives and their reps; sources: Warner Bros. COO Carolyn Blackwood came up with the plan — To many insiders, WarnerMedia's blindsiding of talent and their reps with news that it would send 17 films directly to HBO Max in 2021 felt like an insult.
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