Mediagazer: How newsrooms including NPR, the Miami Herald, The Washington Post, NYT Opinion, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed are leveraging conversations hosted on Twitter Spaces (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)

12:00 PM ET, January 20, 2022

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TikTok says it is testing allowing creators to charge subscriptions for their content — TikTok is testing the idea of allowing its creators to charge subscriptions for their content, a spokesperson told The Information. Earlier Wednesday, rival Instagram announced it was offering paid subscriptions to a small group of influencers.

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Instagram Subscriptions launches as an alpha, initially letting 10 US creators offer their followers paid access to exclusive Instagram Live videos and Stories — Instagram is giving creators more ways to make money with today's launch of Instagram Subscriptions.

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Christine Brennan / USA Today:

NBC Sports says it won't send any Winter Olympics announcing teams to Beijing due to COVID-19 but still plans “a large presence on the ground” — As the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games approach and COVID-19 concerns mount, NBC Sports will not send any of its announcing teams to China …

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Political reporter Robert Costa is leaving WaPo to become a full-time journalist for CBS News, but will continue collaborating on some Post projects — The longtime Washington Post political reporter will take an on-air role covering campaigns and elections.

Tom Jones / Poynter:

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Discussion: TVNewser, @poynter, @nbcnewspr, @jmacnyc, @oliverdarcy and Mediaite

Mark Mulligan / MIDiA Research:

Research finds the base of global music subscribers grew to 523.9M by the end of Q2 2021, up 26.4% YoY; Spotify's market share dropped from 33% to 31% — MIDiA's annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report). Here are some of the key findings.

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Makena Kelly / The Verge:

Democratic lawmakers unveil the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which would ban targeted ads but allow broad location-based and contextual ads — It could reshape the entire tech industry — On Tuesday, Democrats introduced a new bill that would ban nearly all use …

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

How newsrooms including NPR, the Miami Herald, The Washington Post, NYT Opinion, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed are leveraging conversations hosted on Twitter Spaces — “We're starting to wonder, 'Okay, can this work as a social audio conversation? How can we get more voices on this whether from the audience or our sources?'"

Discussion: @sarahscire, @saeed_ahmed, @idiplomacy, @twitternews, @niemanlab, @ericzuck, @ericzuck and @larakate

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Three philanthropies invest $20M+ to launch an independent nonprofit news operation in Houston with about 40 journalists in late 2022 or early 2023 — Three Houston philanthropies are coming together to launch an independent nonprofit news operation in Houston, executives tell Axios.

New York Times:

André Leon Talley, US Vogue's former editor-at-large and a rare Black fashion editor, dies at 73 — Called “a creative genius,” he was the rare Black editor at the top of a field that was mostly white and notoriously elitist. — André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor …

Michael Malone / nexttv.com:

Peacock launches 24/7 local news channels for NBC-owned stations, starting with Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Miami; the channels won't be geo-targeted — WMAQ Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia, WBTS Boston and WTVJ Miami have debuted on streaming platform — Peacock is launching 24/7 local …

Discussion: The Streamable, Robert Feder, 9to5Mac, Media Play News and Daily Herald

Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:

Edelman: 67% of people globally say the media purposely tries to mislead, up from 59% in 2021; faith in the media fell in 15 countries and rose in nine — A majority of people around the world are concerned that they are being lied to by journalists, according to the latest trust survey from PR firm Edelman.

Discussion: Axios, @pressgazette, @paulwallbank, @ruthbenghiat, @russcontreras, @taraemcg, Insider, @axios, @jimvandehei, American Press Institute and Edelman

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