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11:55 AM ET, December 25, 2022

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Axios:
Source: Michael Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire by acquiring Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones but would settle for The Washington Post  —  Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones …
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 …
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.
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
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
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”.
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Twitter employees shed light on Elon Musk's erratic leadership; a Signal message shows Musk wanted “full access” for Bari Weiss, which staff refused to grant  —  Musk's intense focus on his social media company purchase has devolved into the culture wars.  Meanwhile, Tesla is tanking.
Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports:
The NFL plans to only offer the NFL Network's RedZone as part of its YouTube deal 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.
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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
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.
Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Paramount Premium Group CEO David Nevins, who is leaving after 12 years, on high-end TV's rising costs, its business model problem, and more  —  In the latest Table for Two column, Nevins explains why the coming industry pain will be bad but brief ('We're paying …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Atlantic plans to roll out a dynamic paywall with varying prices in early January 2023, aiming to add about 125K subscribers to reach 1M by the end of 2024  —  The Atlantic will roll out out in early January a new dynamic paywall that offers varying subscription prices as it hopes to meet …
JC Reindl / Detroit Free Press:
Peter Bhatia, the Detroit Free Press' top editor since September 2017, plans to step down in January 2023 in the hopes of reducing the number of Gannett layoffs  —  Peter Bhatia, the top editor of the Detroit Free Press, told staff Friday that he will depart the company early next year …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
A profile of Jenna Bush Hager, a publishing kingmaker due to her Today book club show, who in 2022 started a production company to develop books for the screen  —  The daughter and granddaughter of presidents is now famous in her own right.  Her TV book club is one of the few reliable paths …
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Jason Rainbow / SpaceNews:
European satellite operator Eutelsat stops carrying three Russian propaganda channels, after French media regulator Arcom urged the company to stop broadcasting
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
Wall Street Journal:
Pathmatics: ~70% of Twitter's top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk's takeover weren't spending as of the week ending December 18; 89% of 2021 revenue was ads
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[Thread] The Fort Worth NewsGuild ends its strike at McClatchy's Star-Telegram after 24 days and promises details later; the company moved on its $45K pay floor
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A federal judge rules movie studios can be sued under false advertising laws for releasing deceptive trailers, like ones featuring an actor cut from the movie