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2:20 PM ET, January 26, 2022

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T reports Q4: WarnerMedia revenue rose 15.4% YoY to $9.9B and DTC subscription revenue rose 11.5% YoY to $1.9B; Discovery merger is expected to close in Q2  —  The company also announced that it expects the WarnerMedia spinoff and merger with Discovery to close in the second quarter …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
HBO and HBO Max ended 2021 with 46.8M subscribers in the US, up 5.3M over 2020; AT&T reported earlier that the services had 73.8M subscribers globally  —  HBO Max closed 2021 with 46.8 million domestic subscribers when combined with linear HBO, up 5.3 million over 2020, parent AT&T disclosed in its fourth-quarter earnings report.
Discussion: The Streamable and Next TV
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
WaPo names Matea Gold as National editor and Philip Rucker as deputy National editor, as part of plans to expand coverage with a focus on visual storytelling  —  The Washington Post has named Matea Gold as national editor and Philip Rucker as deputy national editor, with plans to expand …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Profile of Colorado-based Real America's Voice, an upstart network run by a little-known media exec, which distributes Steve Bannon's talk show to ~8M homes  —  ‘War Room’ is at the center of a fledgling network monetizing what some employees saw as ‘Trump propaganda.’
Peter White / Deadline:
Sources: ViacomCBS reverses a plan to rename Paramount Network as Paramount Movie Network due to Yellowstone's success and production-related COVID-19 slowdowns  —  EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Network is safe, for now.  —  ViacomCBS has reversed plans to rebrand the cable network …
Discussion: ScreenRant, SlashFilm and Variety
Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
Slow news outlet Tortoise raises £10M to invest in audio and events, and reports a £8.5M loss for the year to December 2020, up from £5.4M in 2019  —  “Slow news” start-up Tortoise has secured £10m of new funding to invest in audio journalism, events and growing its membership revenue.
Bloomberg:
NewsGuild complains to NLRB that NYT's proposal to exclude union members from three paid holidays is meant to discourage NYT tech staff from voting for a union  —  A New York Times Co. employee union is accusing the publisher of violating federal labor law by excluding unionized employees from three paid holidays.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack plans to launch a native video player in beta next week that will let creators upload or record a video and embed it directly in a Substack post  —  Substack plans to launch a native video player next week in an effort to lure new creators to the platform, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Viola Zhou / VICE:
A look at some former Hong Kong journalists' new jobs after their outlets were shuttered; one says “there is no point being a journalist anymore”  —  The demise of the city's independent news outlets has left hundreds of journalists out of a job.  Many are not coming back.  —  VZ
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Ipsos MORI: Apple News was the most widely used UK news app in December 2021, slightly ahead of BBC News; the BBC had 2.2B minutes spent, the most of any app  —  The Apple News app narrowly beat BBC News to take the spot of most popular news app in the UK in December, according to data …
 
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Rory Smith / New York Times:
Profile of Italian soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano, who has amassed a huge following by becoming the go-to source for transfer news on social media
Jacob Adelman / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Philadelphia Inquirer is negotiating to rent office space that is 60% smaller and $1M/year cheaper, starting Q1 2023, as it expects much work to be remote
Politico:
Grid, a news startup founded by Mark Bauman and headed by Laura McGann, maintains ties through its five-member board to APCO, which lobbies for UAE clients
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Cáit Caden / Irish Examiner:
Stripe partners with Spotify to help podcasters accept payments in dozens of currencies in more than 30 countries
Wall Street Journal:
Visa, P&G, and other major advertisers are skipping the 2022 Olympics ad blitz, caught between the US' stance on Uighurs and China's ability to punish brands
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google shutters FLoC, its controversial ad tech for replacing third-party cookies, and proposes Topics, which categorizes the sites users visit into 300+ topics
Andy Greene / Rolling Stone:
Neil Young posts and then deletes a letter to his manager and a Warner exec demanding they remove his music from Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News' Peter Doocy says Biden called him to “clear the air” about an hour after the president was caught on a hot mic calling Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch”
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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