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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A Delaware Supreme Court judge agrees to consolidate Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox News, so there won't be a second trial against parent company Fox — A Delaware Supreme Court judge has agreed to consolidate Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News …
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@desderamona and @desderamona
Jennifer Gerson / The 19th:
An interview with Amna Nawaz, who becomes a PBS NewsHour co-anchor on January 2, on how representation, lived experience, and motherhood shape her career — The NewsHour journalist talked about being the first Muslim Pakistani-American to occupy the anchor seat, and how her identity and parenthood shaped her career.
Discussion:
@switchthefuture and @iamamnanawaz
Karen Everhart / Current:
NPR's new digital fundraising option lets donors give directly to the NPR Network, its unifying brand, testing NPR's relationship with member stations — Public radio's end-of-year giving campaign is underway, with one big difference this year. People can now give directly to something called …
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Media monitoring platform Memo's analysis of nearly 6,300 articles about Meta over the past six months shows the company pivoted from dumping news to burying it — In a 24/7 news cycle, the Friday evening news dump — a tactic historically embraced by strategic communicators in government …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Between November 22 and December 21, the UK's GB News for the first time averaged more prime-time monthly viewers than Sky News but lags Sky in all-day viewers — GB News managed an average 57,107 viewers in the evenings versus 52,230 for Sky News. — GB News has for the first time averaged …
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@aaronbastani and @suprememercian
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The BBC says BBC One attracted more viewers on Christmas Day than rival subscription VOD services, and BBC iPlayer viewing was up 30% YoY over the weekend — BBC claims victory over streaming rivals, as 10.6 million tune in for most watched monarch's address on record
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@marksweney, The Sun and @prof_quiteamess
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
UK PM Rishi Sunak hires Spectator political editor and close friend James Forsyth as his political secretary; Sunak was reportedly best man at Forsyth's wedding — Spectator political editor and Times columnist is friend of prime minister's — Rishi Sunak has hired a close friend …
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Sky News, Telegraph, Politico and Financial Times
Charles Kaiser / The Guardian:
The January 6 Committee releasing its final report has sparked a deluge of publishing activity, with seven editions from six imprints, including Random House — Major imprints are racing to sell the committee's work to the reading public, with help from reporters, panel members, David Remnick and even a former speechwriter to Trump
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with YouTube's Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan on why the company acquired NFL rights, giving creators game footage, 4K broadcasts, multiscreen, and more — YouTube won the big bidding war for NFL Sunday Ticket yesterday, beating out Apple, Amazon, and ESPN with a deal worth a reported $2 billion a year.
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@jacobfeldman4 and @alex_kirshner
CNN:
Russia puts Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, Bellingcat's lead Russia investigator who has accused the Kremlin of international crimes, on its “wanted” list — Russia has put the investigative journalist Christo Grozev on its “wanted” list, according to the Russian Interior Ministry.
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@eliothiggins, The Moscow Times, KyivPost, @spytalker, @christogrozev, @kyivindependent and @christogrozev
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The UK's Sky could face up to £150M/year of ad revenue losses if Ofcom changes its rules to let ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 extend their prime-time ad breaks — Ofcom reviews longstanding rules that allow pay-TV companies more ad minutes than public service rivals
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@paullewismoney and @astaniscia86
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Former Twitter employees and people in Elon Musk's orbit detail his erratic leadership; 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.
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