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5:40 PM ET, January 12, 2023

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Tony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog:
Medium launches a Mastodon instance on me.dm, promising members a service with reliable moderation, smoother onboarding, an interesting local feed, and more  —  The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media  —  Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery is exploring a sale of its music library that could be valued at more than $1B, as part of its work to whittle down $50B in debt  —  Catalogue including Batman soundtracks could fetch more than $1bn for media group  —  Warner Bros Discovery is exploring …
Discussion: Cord Cutters News and @mattbelloni
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery announces HBO Max's first price hike, two years after its launch, increasing the ad-free monthly subscription by 7% from $14.99 to $15.99  —  Effective Thursday, Jan. 12, the price of a new HBO Max no-ads monthly subscription in the U.S. will increase from $14.99 to $15.99 (plus applicable taxes).
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Discussion: HoldtheFrontPage
Inae Oh / Mother Jones:
Letting C-SPAN choose what to film could increase transparency but would also play to some of politicians' worst instincts of grandstanding and viral content  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
Brian Veseling / WAN-IFRA:
After enabling online subscription cancellation, Minnesota Star Tribune finds the new process retains 18.5% of customers canceling vs. 8.8% via a call center  —  2023-01-12.  “Our goal is to discuss retention as often as we discuss acquisition,” says Toby Collodora, Senior Manager of Retention …
Discussion: Nieman Lab
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Coinbase's internal “sentiment” tracker showed Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX was consistently viewed more favorably by the media right up until its collapse  —  Crypto exchange Coinbase has for years tracked how the company is portrayed in the press and online, and that …
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Tim Davie says the BBC is “not proactively putting a date on a digital switchover” and the aggressive plan won't “remove things used by lots of people too soon”  —  The BBC is “not proactively putting a date on a digital switchover or anything stupid like that,” …
New York Times:
Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, sold 1.43M+ copies on its first day, including preorders, a new record for a nonfiction book published by Penguin Random House  —  The steady drumbeat of revelations that preceded the book's release helped push early orders and initial sales, making “Spare,” …
Saksha Menezes / Bloomberg:
Research: in the UK, vinyl sales grew 11% YoY to £150.5M in 2022, topping CD sales, which fell 17.4% YoY to £124M, the first time vinyl outsold CDs since 1987  —  Vinyl Outsold CDs in the UK Last Year  —  Sales from 2018 to 2022  —  Source: The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association
Discussion: ERA Ltd
 
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