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8:10 AM ET, January 16, 2023

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering hiring a comedian to host a prime time show; executives have floated Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart, and others  —  CNN is considering hiring a comedian to host one of its prime time shows.  —  The “news entertainment” personality could fill the primetime 9 …
New York Times:
As the number of shows and movies depicting real events has grown, screenwriters are taking liberties with the facts, often leading to public spats and lawsuits  —  The entertainment genre of historical drama is flourishing — and riddled with inaccuracies.  The untrue parts are leading to more public spats and lawsuits.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Reach told The Sunday Mirror and Sunday People staff that the two Sunday tabloids will begin sharing most of their content under new cost-saving plans  —  The Sunday People and Sunday Mirror have been under the same editor since 2014.  —  The Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers look set …
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Chris Kay / Bloomberg:
Reliance and Paramount's Viacom18 buys five-year rights to the new women's Indian Premier League cricket tournament for $116M, after buying the men's IPL rights  —  Viacom18 Media Pvt., backed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, scooped up the television and digital broadcasting rights …
Parham Ghobadi / BBC:
A look at the costs of reporting on Iran for BBC Persian journalists: death threats, online harassment, and threats to family members who remain in the country  —  In Iran, the anti-government protests of 2022 have continued into the new year.  Reporting on one of the biggest international stories …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Q&A with MGM+ head Michael Wright on rebranding from Epix, plans for eight original series per year under Amazon's ownership, and more  —  The top-to-bottom rebrand of the service that debuted in October 2009 (as a joint venture among MGM, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate) …
David Satin / The Streamable:
Parks Associates: 63% of US households with internet have a connected TV, a 65% increase over 2015, and 87% of them subscribe to at least one streaming service  —  Smart TVs are an increasingly important tool for consumers.  They allow users to navigate between their various streaming apps and services …
Financial Times:
TikTok, Instagram, and other social media apps expect age verification measures in the UK's Online Safety Bill to reduce their user numbers, hurting ad revenue  —  UK's Online Safety Bill requires stronger age verification measures for platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast-owned Sky plans to offer free Discovery+ access to subscribers in the UK and Ireland, saving them £6.99 per month  —  “We know value is incredibly important right now,” Comcast-owned Sky says. … “Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers can now sign up for Discovery+ as part …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A profile of the Investigative Journalism Foundation, “Canada's ProPublica”, a new nonprofit set to publish investigations and build public interest databases  —  “Think of us like ProPublica meets OpenSecrets.”  That's how editor-in-chief Zane Schwartz describes Canada's newly launched Investigative Journalism Foundation.
Brent Lang / Variety:
MoviePass raised a seed of undisclosed size led by Animoca Brands and plans to accelerate its beta movie theatre subscription relaunch and set a Web3 strategy  —  MoviePass Inc. announced it has raised its seed financing led by Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based game software, blockchain and venture capital company.
Discussion: AppleInsider and Financial Times
Jenny Gross / New York Times:
How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool  —  The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda.  Here's what other countries can learn from its success.
 
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Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and David Friedberg, gives some insight into Elon Musk's Twitter
Sarah Spicer / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Brazilian journalism groups say 16+ journalists were attacked or harassed during the January 8 capital riots and 24+ others were targeted in the aftermath
Mike Janssen / Current:
Over 75% of St. Louis Public Radio's on-air and off-air staff sign a petition to unionize; the union would cover 42 people and be Missouri public radio's first
Wall Street Journal:
Emails: Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending up to $250K, if the $500K of ads are run by February 28, a period that includes the Super Bowl
@nbcnewsguild:
[Thread] NBC NewsGuild files an Unfair Labor Practice charge against NBC News for “abruptly and illegally laid off” some journalists without warning the union
 Earlier Picks: 
Oregonian:
Medford, Oregon's Mail Tribune, which Rosebud Media acquired from GateHouse Media in 2017 with financing help from Sinclair Broadcast Group, ceases operations
Linda Codega / Gizmodo:
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast details its new game license and says charitable campaigns, livestreams, cosplay, and more will be unaffected
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube is testing a hub of free, ad-supported streaming channels with select media partners, looking to compete with Roku, Paramount's Pluto TV, and Fox's Tubi