Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:30 AM ET, December 29, 2022

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Twitter resolves widespread issues reported by users; Downdetector shows the issues began around 7pm ET on December 28 and mainly affected Twitter's website  —  The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.
Rachyl Jones / Observer:
Reuters will let staff work from home three days a week in 2023 as part of its deal with NewsGuild, which represents 300 Reuters journalists and photographers  —  Reuters employees can work from home three days a week.  —  Thomson Reuters Corp. and NewsGuild, which represents …
RELATED:
Steven Allen Adams / newsandsentinel.com/:
West Virginia Public Broadcasting dismissed Amelia Knisely, a part-time reporter who covered child welfare issues, after pressure from the US agency she covered  —  CHARLESTON — West Virginia Public Broadcasting has parted ways with one of its reporters after alleged retaliation …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Avatar: The Way of Water passes $1B in global ticket sales in 14 days, $317.1M in North America and $712.7M overseas; Spider-Man: No Way Home hit $1B in 12 days  —  “Avatar: The Way of Water” has sailed past $1 billion in global ticket in just 14 days, becoming the fastest movie this year to cross the coveted box office milestone.
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill / The Guardian:
A look at the growing popularity of live podcast shows, up 2,000%+ since 2013, which podcasters and radio show hosts say help expand their listenership  —  Funny, frank and intimate ... in recent years, the live versions of audio shows have shot up by 2,000%.  Now, comedians are selling out auditoriums nationwide
Theo Wayt / The Information:
Source: Amazon has discussed a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's streaming ambitions  —  Amazon has discussed doing a stand-alone app for watching sports content, people briefed on the conversations told The Information.
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Siblings discuss what it's like to work together in the media industry, including finding motivation amid rivalry, separating work and family, and more  —  Media can be a family business.  Take some of the most recognizable surnames from the industry: Murdoch, Cox, Hearst, Newhouse, Sulzberger.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, PBS NewsHour co-anchors starting on January 2, 2023, and executive producer Sara Just on the program's plans and more  —  Beginning Jan. 2, the long-running PBS evening news program will debut with new co-anchors and a new approach.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US appeals court revives a lawsuit accusing Google and others of violating children's privacy state laws by tracking their YouTube activity for ad targeting  —  A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google and several other companies of violating …
Chris Thomas / Reuters:
Filings: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71% of NDTV, after its founders Radhika and Prannoy Roy decided to sell a 27.26% stake and retain 5%  —  Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71% of New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV.NS) as the company's founders have decided …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: the BBC, which is merging its domestic and international news channels, plans to replace its robot studio cameras from 2013, after several viral fails  —  EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is set to replace the robot cameras in its news channel studio after a string of viral tech fails over the past decade.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 10:30 AM ET, December 29, 2022.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Steamboat Willie, the 1928 film that introduced Disney's Mickey Mouse, will lose copyright protection in 2024; trademarks may complicate the mouse's other uses
Wall Street Journal:
Some telehealth companies are running social media ads promoting drugs for unapproved uses, showing benefits and paid testimonials but not risks or side effects
The New York Times Company:
Eli Saslow, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory reporting at The Washington Post, is joining The New York Times as a writer at large in February 2023
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Analysis: for linear TV dramas and comedies, 40%-50% of the seven-day audience watches the show on the same day it airs, 20%-25% on DVR, and 30-40% on streaming
 Earlier Picks: 
Sarah Bahr / New York Times:
A look at The New York Times' Snow Fall, a December 2012 feature that pushed publications to publish more compelling combinations of multimedia and text
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Media monitoring platform Memo's analysis of nearly 6,300 articles over the past six months: Meta has pivoted from dumping news on Friday evenings to burying it