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Max Tani / Semafor:
A look at Punchbowl News' relationship with Kevin McCarthy, as its newsletters and Jake Sherman's Twitter helped drive the narrative around the race for Speaker — The crazy fracas on Capitol Hill Friday night had a few winners: C-SPAN, of course; the right-wing House Freedom Caucus …
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@matthewfoldi, @jamespmanley, @matthewkassel, @maxwelltani, @pegobry, @dicktofel, @ddayen and Fox News
Katy Waldman / New Yorker:
An interview with NYT reporter Maggie Haberman about her book Confidence Man, her “contextual scoops”, why she sees herself as a Trump “demystifier”, and more — During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalism's promise as well as of its failures.
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Politico, @richardhudock, Poynter, @meinmelbourne, @jalexa1218, @lionhuntermusic, @johngib28171194, @andyblewis, @newyorker, @jayrosen_nyu and @michaelluo
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
An analysis of US publishers' self-reported employee diversity data from 2020 to 2022: media businesses are slowly getting less white and less male-dominated — This article is part of a limited editorial series, called The 2023 Notebook, and is designed to be a guide to marketing and media buying in the new year.
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@blackamazon, @blackamazon, @dcnorg, @juwanthewriter, @jasminedotiwala, @blackamazon, @jason_kint and @digiday
Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter cuts staff in its already diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in a unit for hate speech and harassment — Twitter Inc., under new owner Elon Musk, has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished trust and safety team handling …
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MediaPost, @jamesrbuk, @alanajoy, @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @grogsgamut, @daveyalba, @alexeheath, @kurtwagner8, Appuals.com, BGR India, Reuters, The Guardian, New York Post and Forbes
Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal:
The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio, and text-generation software on January 10 — Beijing is among the first governments to regulate hyper-realistic, AI-generated media
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@_karenhao, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @billbirtles, @jchengwsj, @_karenhao, @joshchin and @martijnrasser, more at Techmeme »
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
OpenAP, Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision, Warner Bros. Discovery, and the Video Advertising Bureau form a committee to push Nielsen alternatives — Media ratings collective OpenAP, along with national programmers Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision …
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Variety, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Ad Age, Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter and @bristei
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
SCOTUS lets Meta's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug to install spyware, allowing surveillance of journalists and others — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group …
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MediaPost, NBC News and @jsrailton, more at Techmeme »
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
A look at the expansion of British news outlets into the US, looking for more ad revenue per user and a larger audience to compensate for years of print decline — More British news brands are targeting American growth. — The United States has the largest and best resourced news industry in the English-speaking world.
Alex Barker / Financial Times:
A look at the Murdoch family's succession wrangling, questions about plans to reunite Fox and News Corp, and whether heir apparent Lachlan will get a free hand — The proposed Fox-News Corp merger could portend a realignment of the interests of Rupert Murdoch's children
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@jderbyshire, @janinegibson, @digbijaymishra1, @aservais1, @tonytassell and @janinegibson
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix's worldwide ad president Jeremi Gorman says the company is pleased with the growth of its ad tier and is planning single-show sponsorships and more — Netflix is “pleased with the growth that we're seeing” in its ad-supported tier since its launch nine weeks ago, said Jeremi Gorman, president of worldwide advertising.
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Android Police and TechCrunch
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
French media conglomerate Vivendi's Canal Plus Group agrees to acquire telecom company Orange's production arm Orange Studio and TV channels unit OCS — Canal Plus, led by CEO Maxime Saada, already owns a third of OCS, which operates several networks. … Financial terms weren't disclosed.
Discussion:
Deadline, Light Reading, Variety and Broadband TV News
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged — We're seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade. — After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality.
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