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2:55 PM 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 …
James Vincent / The Verge:
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit  —  A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video plans to part ways with Jeremy Clarkson after his remaining commissioned shows air in 2024, following his comments on Meghan Markle  —  Amazon Prime Video is likely to be parting ways with Jeremy Clarkson mere weeks after his comments about Meghan Markle were published in British tabloid The Sun.
Isabella Simonetti / New York Times:
A look at the role a CoinDesk story played in FTX's fall, as the outlet covers parent DCG's problems; CoinDesk had 17M page views in November, up 96% on October  —  The parent company of CoinDesk, one of the first news sites focused on the industry, faces questions about the operations and financial health of some of its subsidiaries.
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) …
Discussion: MediaPost and Media Play News
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.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast-owned Sky plans to offer WBD's streaming service Discovery+ to its subscribers in the UK and Ireland for free, saving them £6.99 or €6.99 per month  —  “We know value is incredibly important right now,” Comcast-owned Sky says. … “Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers …
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 a new cost-saving plan  —  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
Gina Chua / Semafor:
Singapore's The Straits Times said last week it overstated daily circulation by 85K-95K copies, or 10%-12% of reported totals, from September 2020 to March 2022  —  SPH Media, Singapore's dominant news organization, has been derided for many failings — being too stodgy, too pro-government …
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 …
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 …
 
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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
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
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
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
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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
Oregonian:
Medford, Oregon's Mail Tribune, which Rosebud Media acquired from GateHouse Media in 2017 with financing help from Sinclair Broadcast Group, ceases operations
 

 
From Techmeme:

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions

Wall Street Journal:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change
 
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