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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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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts got 17.1B views since July 2024

Financial Times:
In its annual report, Apple warns of future products maybe never being as profitable as its iPhone business, “geopolitical tensions”, and AI tools' safety risks
 
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