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12:35 PM ET, January 4, 2022

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David Gelles / New York Times:
Ben Smith, media columnist at The New York Times, is leaving to start a global news organization with Bloomberg's Justin Smith  —  Mr. Smith will help start a new organization with Justin Smith, the chief executive of Bloomberg Media.  —  Ben Smith, the media columnist for The New York Times …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
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WaPo's David Fahrenthold, who won the 2017 Pulitzer for an investigation into Trump's charitable giving, will join NYT's DC bureau as an investigative reporter  —  David is joining The Times's Washington bureau as an investigative reporter.  Read more in this note from Elisabeth Bumiller.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
After leaving Meta, CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman has helped a bipartisan group of US senators craft a bill to boost social networks' transparency  —  The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings.
Gideon Lichfield / Wired:
Wired merges its US and UK websites, but will still publish two separate print editions, as it vows to reject “the optimist and pessimist views of tech”  —  The future begins here—again.  —  In the next few decades, virtually every financial, social, and governmental institution …
Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
Independent Hong Kong news outlet Citizen News will close on Tuesday, citing “the rapid changes in society and worsening environment for media”  —  Independent online news portal to cease operations amid ‘worsening environment for media’ in city
Sara Fischer / Axios:
NPR says it will launch an on-demand podcast bundle in H2 as a benefit of membership to local stations, and adds more shows and subscriber-only benefits to NPR+  —  Today's Media Trends is 1,486 words, a 6-minute read.  Sign up here.  —  1 big thing: NPR's new pod push  —  Expand chart
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter completes its $1.05B sale of MoPub to AppLovin, which expects its unified platform with MoPub to process $15B+ of annualized advertiser spend by 2023  —  Twitter announced today it has completed the sale of its mobile ad platform, MoPub, to the mobile game maker and marketing software …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
While The Atlantic and others have covered the United States' teetering democracy, major publications have yet to make the topic a central focus  —  Journalists stepped it up in 2021, but now we need a concerted effort  —  In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
A look at publishers' NFT experiments in 2021, including Decrypt Studios, Yahoo's NFT New York Fashion Week ad deal, and Turner Sports' NFT-based golf game  —  Many publishers closed out 2020 in a better financial position than they expected early on in the pandemic, giving them the flexibility …
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Heidi Chung / Variety:
2022 media trend predictions: subscription video streaming and global digital ad revenue will likely remain growth stories, and the M&A fever will rage on  —  Though the economy wasn't completely shut down in 2021, life and business were hardly normal.  Despite those less-than-normal conditions …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
EVP and GM of Viacom Digital Studios Stefanie Schwartz leaves to join Jellysmack as the creator-centric video distributor's global head of platform partnerships
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Atmosphere TV, which streams ad-supported video channels often without audio, raises a $80M Series C and $20M in debt, bringing its total funding to $140M
Stephen Lepitak / Adweek:
MediaRadar: between November 2020 and November 2021, US gambling ad spend reached $488M, including ~$336M on TV, up 63% YoY, and ~$140M on digital, up 52% YoY
Tyler O'Neil / Fox Business:
Facebook reinstates the ad account of conservative children's book publisher Heroes of Liberty, saying the account was permanently disabled in error
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
David Bowie's estate sells the singer's publishing catalog to Warner Chappell Music, sources say for over $250M
Jennifer Jenkins / Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and songs published in 1926 and an estimated 400,000 sound recordings published before 1923 enter the US public domain as copyrights expire