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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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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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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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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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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.
Austin Karp / Sports Business Journal:
Sports accounted for 94 of the 100 most-watched US telecasts in 2022, of which a record 82 were NFL games; no scripted show made the top 100 for the second year — Sports continued to show why they are the most valuable programming on television in 2022, making another strong statement …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roku reports ending 2022 with more than 70M accounts globally, up 16.5% from the end of 2021, and says streaming hours grew 19% YoY to 87.4B in 2022 — The customer total was up 16.5% from the end of 2021, when Roku totaled 60.1 million global accounts. — Per Roku, streaming hours reached …
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
Roku let Burrow, a channel dedicated to QAnon conspiracy theories, launch despite seemingly violating its content rules; Burrow got 300K+ installs in 20 days — Roku may be making money on the channel via ads, despite its rules against such content — Streaming platform Roku has allowed …
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David Satin / The Streamable:
Some doubt YouTube will get its money's worth from its $2B NFL Sunday Ticket deal; one analyst estimates YouTube TV will need 4.5M new subscribers to break even — NFL fans across the country rejoiced when it was announced that Alphabet Inc. had acquired the rights to the league's …
Roxanna Asgarian / The Texas Tribune:
In January, a US appeals court will weigh a citizen journalist's First Amendment rights against qualified immunity, which shields public officials from lawsuits — Priscilla Villarreal was arrested over her Facebook postings. In a rare proceeding, the entire 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
A US judge partly grants a summary judgment in YouTube's favor in a 2020 class action copyright lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider, as the case continues — A 2020 class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider accused YouTube of mass copyright infringement …
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Camila DeChalus / Washington Post:
The US House allowed C-SPAN to let cameras roam the chamber until a speaker is elected, showing loud booing, animated conversations, sleeping kids, and more — Loud booing. Animated conversations in the aisles of the House chamber. Sleeping children. Lawmakers scrolling on their phones.
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