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Noah Oppenheim is leaving NBC News in a reorganization; NBCUniversal appoints Rebecca Blumenstein, a top New York Times editor, as NBC News' editorial president — The appointment of Ms. Blumenstein, a deputy managing editor at The Times, is a part of a broad overhaul of the news division at NBCUniversal.
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Frank Landymore / Futurism:
CNET has been using AI, which it calls automation technology, to write financial explainer posts under a CNET Money Staff byline, apparently since November 2022 — Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.
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Helen Coster / Reuters:
Union email: Dow Jones, which owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch, is laying off staff; no WSJ newsroom cuts are expected in this round — Dow Jones, a division of News Corp that includes the financial news outlets the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
NBC broadcasting the tarnished Golden Globes again shows the awards are about business and Hollywood has dropped any pretense of celebrating artistic excellence — Amid a few awkward moments, the industry's stars mostly embraced the chance to accept film and TV trophies in hopes of a bump in business and award-season momentum.
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Gabe Cohn / New York Times:
A complete list of the 2023 winners at the 80th Golden Globe Awards hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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The Information:
Sources: GroupM clients cut Twitter ad spend by 40%-50% since Elon Musk took over; Standard Media Index is seeing fewer January and February ad bookings in 2023 — Twitter's ad business is not recovering. — Clients of WPP-owned GroupM, the world's largest ad-buying firm …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Sources: DirecTV, which has fewer than 10,000 employees, is laying off ~10% of its upper ranks to cut costs; the last day for affected staff will be January 20 — - DirecTV is laying off hundreds of employees — roughly 10% of its upper ranks — as the company looks to reduce costs, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Sources: Parler's parent company laid off ~75% of its staff and most of its chief executives over the past few weeks, leaving the social app with ~20 employees — Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff …
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Memo: Nielsen plans to reduce its workforce back to roughly what it was a year ago, after hiring to counter attrition; Nielsen employed 15,000 in December 2021 — Exit Content Preview — Nielsen told employees in an internal memo that it would reduce its workforce back to roughly what it was a year ago …
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
A look at Matt Yglesias' boring journey toward the political center, as 13,000+ Substack users pay $80/year for his slightly contrarian, mildly annoying takes — The Washington ur-blogger's slightly contrarian, mildly annoying, somewhat influential, very lucrative path toward the political center
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Sports streaming service DAZN reports revenue up 79% to $1.56B in 2021, but losses grew 79% to $2.3B as sports rights costs soared from $1.2B in 2020 to $1.9B — Losses at DAZN Group Ltd., the sports streaming platform backed by billionaire Len Blavatnik, swelled 79% to $2.3 billion in 2021 as it poured money into top soccer rights.
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Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Alphabet and Meta face fiercer ad market competition from streaming TV and retailers like Amazon, after making 50%+ of online ad dollars in the past seven years — For more than a half-decade, Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have ruled the digital advertising market—the money machine that funds the modern internet.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in late 2022, Netflix stopped letting director-level staff see other employees' salaries, a major shift for a company offering rare pay transparency — Employees at the director level lost ability to view colleagues' pay data late last year — Employers List Wide Salary Ranges in Ways That Sidestep Pay Transparency Law
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
C-SPAN co-CEO Susan Swain writes to newly elected US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for permission to use the network's independent cameras in the House chamber — New York CNN — — C-SPAN isn't packing up its cameras quietly. — The public affairs network on Tuesday sent a letter …
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
US Representative Matt Gaetz introduces an amendment to allow C-SPAN cameras on the House floor during normal proceedings, replacing the “antiquated” pool view
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