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9:35 AM ET, December 24, 2021

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Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Joan Didion, whose career spanned traditional reporting, screenwriting, cultural criticism, and fiction, dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 87  —  Joan Didion, the celebrated prose stylist, novelist and screenwriter who chronicled American culture and consciousness with cool detachment …
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Nic Dawes, executive director of NYC-based The City, on the publication's Open Newsroom program partnering with local libraries and community centers  —  In 2019, New York City saw the launch of The City, a local nonprofit news platform built with considerable foundation and donor funding …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House rejects WHCA's proposal to hold press briefings over Zoom but says it's “open to considering a request to go back to smaller-sized briefings”  —  With a fierce new variant of the coronavirus on the loose, White House reporters are urging press secretary Jen Psaki …
Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
A look at TikTok's biggest stars, including Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Noah Beck, and Addison Rae, expanding to other platforms, often with mixed results  —  This year, the app's biggest stars — Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Noah Beck, Addison Rae and others — leapt from the phone screen …
Discussion: @nytimesarts
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap:
[Thread] For media and advertising, Web3's focus on decentralization and tokenization solves few, if any, problems and is the last thing ad tech needs  —  This web3 shit is starting to annoy me, so here's a thread with my opinions on the relevance to media and advertising. 1/21 🧵
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
The European Commission grants antitrust clearance for Discovery's proposed acquisition of AT&T's WarnerMedia; Discovery expects the deal to close in mid-2022  —  Discovery, announced today that the European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust clearance of the company's proposed acquisition …
Byron Kaye / Reuters:
Australia adds what appears to be a fake news site to the register of companies that can negotiate licensing deals with Meta and Google  —  Australia's ground-breaking law forcing platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local publishers for news faces an unlikely test case …
Discussion: RAPPLER and @timothyjgraham
BBC:
Jon Snow, who led the UK's Channel 4 News for 32 years, signs off as lead presenter; the channel says he'll front longer-form projects and focus on charities  —  Jon Snow has presented his final edition of Channel 4 News after 32 years at the helm of the programme.
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Two Georgia election workers sue OANN and a network correspondent for defamation over false claims they manipulated ballots; they earlier sued Gateway Pundit  —  Rudy Freeman and Wandrea Moss claim pro-Trump media outfit and Trump lawyer defamed them and “bear responsibility for ... partisan character assassination”
Reuters:
Belarus adds Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to its list of extremist organizations, meaning that Belarusian subscribers could face six years in prison  —  Belarus' interior ministry said on Thursday it has added United States broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to its list of extremist organisations.
Rebecca Davis / Variety:
Studio executives, producers, and others predict China will decouple from the global film industry in 2022 as the country turns inward under Xi Jinping  —  The tea leaves aren't difficult to read: China and Hollywood can bid adieu to any attempts at in-depth cultural collaboration …
 
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Kristina Davis / San Diego Union-Tribune:
US judge orders a podcast to turn over unaired interviews, ruling the defendants' rights to due process outweigh the podcast producers' First Amendment rights
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Brands are flocking to TikTok with dedicated ad campaigns, attracted by its 1B users and its algorithm that can make an ad seem like just another video
Claudia Eller / Variety:
Q&A with Bob Iger, as he prepares to leave Disney at the end of 2021, on his disinterest in running another company, Bob Chapek, investing in startups, and more
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Analysis of Garbage Day's Substack metrics: 16K readers, about 10% of which pay to subscribe, driven mainly by announcements or coupons, not paywalled posts
David Pierce / Protocol:
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
The Economic Times:
India bans 20 YouTube channels and two websites for alleged “anti-India” propaganda from Pakistan, invoking its new IT Act's emergency powers for the first time
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Politico:
Euronews says its editorial independence is not at risk after being acquired by Portuguese investment firm Alpac Capital, which has close ties to Viktor Orbán
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen says it undercounted “out of home” TV audiences since September 2020 due to a “software issue”, and vows to release corrected estimates from mid-January
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich settles his libel claim after journalist Catherine Belton and HarperCollins amended passages in her book, Putin's People