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4:00 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 …
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).
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,” …
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 …
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
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
New York Times:
Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, sold 1.43M copies on its first day, including pre-orders, a record for any nonfiction book ever 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 …
Sam Kille / The GroundTruth Project:
The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World, names Rob Zeaske as CEO and president, starting on January 23; Zeaske was once COO  —  The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World, is pleased to announce the selection of Rob Zeaske …
Discussion: @stevenwaldman
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
A look at ratings growth for Fox News' The Five, surpassing Tucker Carlson's and Sean Hannity's shows, and second only to Yellowstone in cable ratings for 2022  —  How ‘The Five’ surpassed Tucker Carlson in the ratings: It's the ‘Avengers of Fox News’ — but at an hour that reflects the increasing dominance of older viewers.
Discussion: @amyargetsinger
 
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Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
Q&A with The Last of Us showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann on working with HBO, adapting a game to TV, avoiding past failures, fan reactions, and more
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
A look at Amsterdam-based Vylo, an app that combines news aggregation with user-generated video commentary and has raised a $2M pre-seed led by Kleiner Perkins
Joseph Cox / VICE:
A September 2022 New York Times investigation inadvertently exposed apparent phone numbers of Russian soldiers, critical of the Ukraine war, and their families
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney names Nike Executive Chairman Mark Parker as its chairman, succeeding Susan Arnold, and fights activist investor Nelson Peltz's effort to join its board
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
Frank Landymore / Futurism:
CNET has been using an “AI engine” to write financial explainers under a CNET Money byline since November 2022, reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by a human
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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
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

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 had 17.1B views since July 2024

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M
 
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