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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Sources: five months after Meghan McCain's departure, The View struggles to find a permanent Republican replacement who doesn't deny the 2020 election results — DRIVING THE DAY — Before taking off for the holidays, the four long-standing hosts of “The View” had a message …
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Lawrence Chung / South China Morning Post:
Hong Kong liquidator of Apple Daily parent company Next Digital says negotiations are underway to sell Taiwanese sister site Apple Online — Hong Kong liquidator for owner Next Digital, founded by jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai, is negotiating with potential buyers for Taiwan's Apple Online …
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Reuters:
Hong Kong files charge accusing Jimmy Lai and six former Apple Daily staff of conspiracy to print and distribute “seditious publications” between 2019 and 2021 — Hong Kong prosecutors on Tuesday filed a “seditious publications” charge against jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai …
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sports betting firms mull media acquisitions to help reduce marketing costs; sources: Turner Sports expects $400M+ through 2024 from DraftKings and FanDuel ads — Want to know the biggest bet in online gambling? It's the multibillion dollar marketing gamble sports betting firms like DraftKings …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: following Michael Corn's departure from ABC, Disney wanted a strict NDA so sexual allegations about Corn and Disney's handling thereof wouldn't surface — A lawsuit claims executives knew of misconduct at the key revenue generator ‘Good Morning America’ but didn't follow up and discouraged an official report
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Bloomberg:
Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes a media law that would have forced Discovery to sell over 50% of its domestic TV network, after protests and US pressure — - Veto lets Discovery continue running popular broadcaster TVN — Chances are slim for divided parliament to overrun Duda's veto
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Grace Mirabella, who served as Vogue's EIC between 1971 and 1988 and launched a rival magazine called Mirabella with Rupert Murdoch in 1989, dies at 92 — Grace Mirabella, who was the most influential voice in fashion during her 17 years as the top editor of Vogue magazine …
NPR:
NPR names Leila Fadel as the fourth co-host of Morning Edition and Up First; Fadel is currently a national correspondent at NPR — Dec 28, 2021;Washington, D.C. — NPR announced today that Leila Fadel has been selected as the fourth host of Morning Edition, NPR's morning drive …
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Sensor Tower: 12 of the top 20 news apps globally in 2021 were aggregators; India's Daily Hunt was the most downloaded news app globally with 55.9M installs — AI-powered news app Opera was downloaded 869,000 times in 2021, making it the most popular newly-installed news app in the UK this year.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Taliban-affiliated militia detains the owner of an independent TV broadcaster, and one week ago a journalist in Kabul was beaten and stabbed — Taliban authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Aref Noori and ensure that members of the press are able to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home crosses $1B at the global box office, the first pandemic-era movie to do so; only Infinity War and Endgame reached $1B faster — “Spider-Man: No Way Home” unwrapped the best Christmas gift of all, becoming the first pandemic-era movie to cross $1 billion at the global box office.
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Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
US judge awards Amazon, PRH, and 12 authors $7.8M in damages and issues a permanent injunction against a group of sites offering pirated ebooks at low prices — In a summer 2020 lawsuit, Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child …
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