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12:15 PM ET, January 9, 2023

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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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
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 …
Shaad D'Souza / The Guardian:
Designers for major tours, including Lady Gaga's Chromatica Ball and Lorde's Solar Power, discuss creating social media-friendly sets and other considerations  —  From Lorde to Rosalía, today's biggest stars deliver shows that seem precision-engineered for social media.
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
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Alamo Records founder Todd Moscowitz and Sony Music launch Santa Anna, a new artist and label services company to be led by ex-Geffen Records GM Lee L'Heureux  —  Sony Music Entertainment and Alamo Records founder Todd Moscowitz have announced the launch of a new artist and label services company called Santa Anna.
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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Eric Ducker / New York Times:
A look at music trailerization, the practice of reworking existing tracks to maximize their impact in TV and movie previews
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
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
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
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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
fuboTV raises its subscription prices by $5 to $75/month for the Pro plan and $85/month for the Elite plan, the company's second increase in eight months
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
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
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015
 
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