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11:45 AM ET, January 5, 2022

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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Q&A with Ben Smith on his new media venture, as plans like a launch date remain to be finalized: “We want to serve the highest common denominator”  —  The departing Times media columnist and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News wants to push the envelope but isn't yet ready to say just how.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Justin Smith will be CEO of the new venture, which will focus on digital consumer subscriptions and premium advertising, and Ben Smith will lead its newsroom  —  Calling legacy media “almost paralyzed,” two of journalism's top disrupters — Bloomberg's Justin Smith and Ben Smith of the New York Times …
David Gelles / New York Times:
Ben Smith is leaving the NYT to start a global news organization with Justin Smith for the “200M people who are college educated, who read in English”  —  Mr. Smith will help start a new organization with Justin Smith, the chief executive of Bloomberg Media.
Discussion: @bgrueskin, @benyt, @dgelles, Washington Post, @reckless, Talking Biz News, @emilybell, @nhannahjones, @dylanbyers, @daveleeft, @zengerle, @ashleyfeinberg, @rachel, @dcbigjohn, @kindahagi, @ryanchittum, @felixsalmon, @sarafischer, @benyt, @dangillmor, @nprinskeep, Indigenous Wire, @karaswisher, @richardgrenell, @kampeas, @juliacarriew, @jason, @mayawiley, @jswatz, @om, @kazweida, @chaykak, @comfortablysmug, @laurenzcollins, @apbenven, @bypatrickgeorge, @alexthomp, @jscros, @jscros, @maxwelltani, @jswatz, @kromandavid, @froomkin, @brianstelter, @rafat, @davidcorndc, @hunterw, @katie_roof, @froomkin, @buzzfeedben, @lebassett, @sethklamann, @alicialutes, @claireeshaffer, @meredithshiner, @rublekb, @mhbaskin, @ungarino, @esotericcd, @kerrymflynn, @rosiegray, @rosental, @digitalshields, @daveweigel, @lpolgreen, @claremalone, @justinhendrix, @parismartineau, @natalieweiner, @yair_rosenberg, @ralstonreports, @jakesherman, @ariehkovler, @clairevtran, @howardkurtz, @chanders, @tomgara, @tomgara, @hamiltonnolan, @robinwigg, @thekenyeung, @toley88, @bristei, @ashleyfeinberg, @ashleyfeinberg, @kerrymflynn, @s_m_i, @paperhaus, @joshsternberg, @davegershgorn, @tomscocca, @rmac18, @daisandconfused, @scottfeinberg, @michaelroston, @brianstelter, @edmundlee, @cliffordlevy, @susanpage, @jimwaterson, @lisatozzi, @pdmcleod, @ljkawa, @scottnover, @akarl_smith, @martinsfp, @carolynryan, @ezwrites, @mattnegrin, @tomgara, @samjmintz, @sonnybunch, @alexbruell, @patrickmcgee_, @jbflint, @jbflint, @kfile, New York Magazine, Defector, Observer, Financial Times, bookforum.com, Mediaite and The Hill
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith steps down effective immediately to found a media company “that serves unbiased journalism”; Scott Havens to replace him as CEO
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Sources: ill-suited or blocked programmatic ads are airing on some podcasts, showing that early trust between networks and ad tech providers could break  —  This story is part of a group of stories called  —  The podcast industry is working up to something big; you can see it in the acquisitions.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
AT&T CFO says HBO Max and HBO ended 2021 with about 73.8M subscribers, ahead of the company's forecast  —  The WarnerMedia streamer's fourth-quarter content slate included ‘Succession,’ ‘Dune’ and ‘Sex and the City’ sequel series ‘And Just Like That.’
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading:
MoffettNathanson: US pay-TV services lost 637,000 subscribers in Q3 as gains from digital distributors failed to make up for cable and satellite provider losses  —  The US pay-TV industry shed another 637,000 subscribers in the third quarter of 2021 as gains from virtual multichannel video …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon says it has sold over 150M Fire TV devices worldwide  —  Amazon is touting a major milestone for Fire TV, claiming it has sold more than 150 million of the streaming devices worldwide.  And it announced deals with Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis to bring Fire TV to the automakers' in-car entertainment systems.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Amazon Fire TV
Alec Karakatsanis / @equalityalec:
[Thread] How the NYT used spin from the LAPD to run a sympathetic profile of a “good guy” cop that killed a 14-year-old girl in LA  —  THREAD. What's happening at the New York Times is disturbing. Many people pointed out the headline about a mysterious bullet that killed a 14-year-old girl, but some interesting things emerge when you look closely at the article itself. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comscore launches Comscore Everywhere to measure unduplicated audiences across various media and screens, with plans to add new phases throughout 2022  —  Comscore, a longtime rival to Nielsen in the business of measuring media audiences, is vowing to keep pace as advertisers seek new ways …
Discussion: nexttv.com and PR Newswire
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Livepeer, an Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming service, raises a $40M Series B from Tiger Global and others, bringing its total funding to $51M  —  Livepeer, a decentralized video streaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain, has raised $20 million in a Series B extension round.
 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
TikTok partners with Atmosphere to bring curated TikTok videos to Atmosphere's TV streaming service for commercial venues
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Adtech company Smartly.io will buy Ad-Lib.io, which offers creative tools for Google platforms, for $100M+, as it seeks to expand beyond social media offerings
Discussion: MediaPost and @alexweprin
Priya Anand / Bloomberg:
Popcorn Time, an open source streaming service for pirated content launched in 2014, has shut down; in 2015, Netflix warned investors about Popcorn Time
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Twitter permanently bans Politics For All, a UK news aggregator founded by 19-year-old Nick Moar, for violating platform manipulation and spam rules
Chantal Flores / Study Hall:
Investigative journalists of color face safety risks, “objectivity” issues, editors worried about making white readers uncomfortable, and a lack of resources
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Axios:
Chartbeat survey of 4,000+ publishers globally: traffic declined 8% between 2020 and 2021 and nearly 20% between January 2021 and December 2021
Vania Andre / THE CITY:
NYC-based independent and nonprofit news site The City appoints Richard Kim as EIC, starting on February 1; Kim was previously HuffPost's executive editor
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Protocol adds 25 positions, aiming to bring its employee count to 80 by the end of 2022, and says it is 100% ad-supported and has 200K newsletter subscribers
Sara Fischer / Axios:
NPR adds new shows and subscriber-only benefits to NPR+, and plans to launch an on-demand podcast bundle in H2 2022 as a benefit of membership to local stations