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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Documents show TikTok parent ByteDance surveilled Forbes journalists and former BuzzFeed employees Emily Baker-White, Katharine Schwab, and Richard Nieva — ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story — The company's internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.
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Reuters:
Sources: aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm's length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others
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Alex W. Palmer / New York Times:
How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became caught in changing US-China relations
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Axios:
Source: Michael Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire and is interested in acquiring Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post — Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones …
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BBC:
The Sun apologizes for a Jeremy Clarkson column about Meghan Markle that prompted 20K+ complaints to the UK's IPSO, but didn't say if the outlet disciplined him — The Sun newspaper says it regrets publishing a Jeremy Clarkson column about the Duchess of Sussex and is “sincerely sorry”.
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights — Video streamer to pay annual fee of roughly $2 billion under seven-year deal — Created with sketchtool.
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Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports:
The NFL plans to only offer NFL Network's RedZone as part of its deal with YouTube starting in the 2023 season, ending DirecTV's version, which debuted in 2005 — - DirecTV's Red Zone channel debuted in 2005. — That would leave NFL RedZone as the sole whip-around show on Sundays.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NFL will make $120B in the next decade from NBC, CBS, Disney, Fox, Google, Apple, and Amazon deals, cementing its position as a premier content provider — The league chose YouTube as its Sunday Ticket partner in part because the service aims to be “much more broadly available.”
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Whistleblower protection org Government Accountability Project files a complaint to Congress over Twitter suspending VoA's Steve Herman and other journalists — Nearly a week after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said that the accounts of suspended journalists would be reinstated, at least six remain blocked.
Public Notice:
Q&A with Insider's Linette Lopez on covering Elon Musk since 2018, Twitter suspending her for a tweet showing a court document with his email address, and more — “Once Elon took over, I was not optimistic. As usual, he is exceeding expectations for me."
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Kelly Jensen / BOOK RIOT:
Huntsville, Texas votes to privatize its local library after removing its Pride display and Banned Books Week display and placing the city librarian on leave — The Huntsville Public Library (HPL) has been under fire since this summer, when a book display riled up city officials.
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The Hill:
The January 6 committee recommends that Congress “continue to evaluate policies of media companies that have had the effect of radicalizing their consumers” — The House committee examining last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol issued its long-awaited final report on Thursday night …
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Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter:
Film executives are reaffirming their vows to theatrical releases, especially after Top Gun: Maverick, but it's unclear whether audiences will show up regularly — This year brought some big box office wins — never underestimate Tom Cruise — but mostly it was a time for film execs to stanch bleeding …
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