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Ben Fox / Associated Press:
AP Executive Editor Julie Pace urges DHS to say why it investigated reporter Martha Mendoza and assure that the “apparent abuse of power” will not continue — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press sought answers Monday from the Department of Homeland Security on its use …
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Axios:
Source: 1.6M+ readers pay for the Guardian, of which 1M make recurring payments for digital content, 100K are print subscribers, and 500K make one-off donations — The Guardian now has 1 million people that pay for its digital content on a recurrent basis, Axios has learned.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Former THR co-president Janice Min and Richard Rushfield form Ankler Media, expanding The Ankler, Rushfield's paid Substack newsletter about Hollywood — Janice Min, a media executive in Los Angeles, is joining forces with Richard Rushfield, a show-business columnist, to start a new media business …
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New York Times:
How China helps foreign influencers in the country who spread pro-China messages, funding their travel and generating lucrative, likely inauthentic, traffic — We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at. — It's the first in the world built inside a quarry.
Gavin Bridge / Variety:
Analysis: political news and opinion programming across CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC made up 83% of the 5,000 most watched cable shows in 2021, up from 57% in 2016 — Over the past six years, the cable TV landscape has experienced a contraction in what is being watched by subscribers.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Stock in Lee Enterprises climbed from $18/share before Alden's bid to over $36/share at Tuesday close, possibly helping the newspaper group remain independent — It suggests Lee's newsrooms, which have worried for the last months about deep cuts if Alden takes over, may instead see a fairly stable 2022.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
UBS: Tubi, the free ad-supported streaming service Fox bought in March 2020, is expected to hit $700M in 2022 revenue, up from $145M annual revenue at purchase — Tubi, the free ad-supported streaming service that was acquired by Fox last year, is expected to hit $700 million in revenue in 2022, according to a new UBS analysis.
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Joe Nocera sues former employer Bloomberg News, seeking earnings from The Shrink Next Door, an Apple TV+ series based on his podcast of the same name — Joe Nocera seemed to be living a journalist's dream, with a story turned hit podcast bought by Hollywood.
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Reuters:
Smartmatic and Dominion seek communications from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch in their defamation lawsuits against Fox News over election rigging claims — Did Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch influence Fox News' coverage of claims about two voting technology companies — knowing that those claims were false?
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@rasmus_kleis, @iron_emu, @reutersbiz, @reutersbiz and @reutersbiz
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Brian Kilmeade texted Mark Meadows on January 6, urging him to get Trump to tell people to leave the Capitol — Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade expressed alarm, concern, according to messages shared during House select committee hearing.
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Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber / Reuters:
A Moscow court fines investigative news outlet The Insider $13,600 for failing to identify itself as a “foreign agent” after being designated as such in July — Russian investigative website The Insider was fined on Tuesday for breaking the “foreign agents” …
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times says its Games and Cooking standalone products have 1M subscriptions each — The Times also marked one million international subscriptions in November. — The New York Times today announced that Cooking and Games have each reached one million subscriptions …
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