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12:40 PM ET, January 10, 2022

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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News names Jesse Watters as the permanent host of its 7PM opinion show after a year of rotating guest hosts  —  Fox News announced Monday that Jesse Watters will be the permanent host of the network's 7 p.m. ET hour, which will be re-named Jesse Watters Primetime beginning January 24.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Axel Springer names Goli Sheikholeslami as CEO of Politico Media; Sheikholeslami previously served as the president and CEO of WNYC  —  It is the first major move by the German media giant since it purchased the Virginia-based political publication.  —  Axel Springer has tapped Goli Sheikholeslami …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ names Internews Europe CEO Jodie Ginsberg as its CEO, succeeding Joel Simon, who stepped down at the end of 2021 after leading the organization for 15 years  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today named Jodie Ginsberg as its new President.  Ginsberg will succeed Joel Simon …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery takes a minority stake in OpenAP, a joint venture between Fox, NBCU, and ViacomCBS to define video ad audiences  —  After making a successful bid to grow its heft in the media business with the looming acquisition of WarnerMedia, Discovery wants to extend its influence in the world of audience measurement and data.
Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Republican leaders say journalists will no longer be allowed to work on the Iowa Senate floor, breaking a more than 140-year tradition, worrying press advocates  —  When Iowa's 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters.
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Joe Biden has held fewer news conferences and given fewer interviews than his five immediate predecessors after nearly one year in office  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In what's become a familiar scene, President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Edison Research: the 10 most popular US podcasts in 2020 were seven or more years old on average and none debuted in the last couple of years  —  Dawn Ostroff wants to find more hits.  The chief content officer of Spotify is upset that her company isn't producing enough new popular podcasts …
Caitlin Petre / Nieman Lab:
Research finds journalists consider some uses of metrics “clean”, like those used for a story's promotion, while using metrics to determine content is “dirty”  —  In late January 2012, A. J. Daulerio, then the editor in chief of Gawker.com, published a post on the site announcing an experiment.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Symone Sanders, the former chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, to join MSNBC as an anchor and will host a new weekend program  —  Ms. Sanders, 32, will host a weekend show on the cable network, one of the first big programming moves by MSNBC's president, Rashida Jones.
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Politico Playbook issues a correction after misidentifying Sen. Schumer's wife as Justice Sotomayor, blaming an editor for not verifying a tipster's photo  —  OOPS  —  Politico's Playbook newsletter issued a correction on Saturday morning after misidentifying Democratic leader Chuck Schumer's wife …
Times Higher Education:
Times Higher Education acquires US-based Inside Higher Ed and says they will have a combined audience of more than 50M annually  —  Leading providers of university insights and data will reach combined audience of more than 50 million annually  —  Times Higher Education has acquired …
Nick Lewis / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Armenia's introduction of higher defamation fines and criminal charges for “grave insult” sparks worries that the new laws help clamp down on critical outlets  —  When Armenia's government took office after the 2018 Velvet Revolution, it seemed to usher in a new era of press freedom for the former Soviet Republic.
 
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Jason Kilar says HBO Max “broke through” in 2021 and WarnerMedia will spend $18B+ on content in 2022; Disney and Netflix are expected to spend $33B+ and $17B+
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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
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