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8:05 PM ET, January 22, 2023

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos about shared leadership, what role Reed Hastings may play, adding FAST channels, the ad tier, and more  —  So that's what an orderly transfer of power looks like.  —  While Disney chief Bob Iger ousted every potential threat …
Hamish Morrison / The National:
Report: BBC chairman Richard Sharp helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of £800,000 just weeks before the former prime minister recommended him for the job  —  BBC chairman Richard Sharp reportedly helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of £800,000 just weeks before he was recommended for the role by the then-prime minister.
Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
Anti-harassment org Time's Up, often accused of aligning with Hollywood's rich and powerful, will halt operations and shift its remaining ~$1.7M to a legal fund  —  The Golden Globes carpet typically glitters with crystal-studded gowns in pastel hues, but it looked different in January 2018 …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: LA Times, WaPo, The Atlantic, and Time are unprofitable and rely on their billionaire owners' goodwill, despite hunting for better business models  —  Starting a decade ago, a generation of new-money billionaires rode to the rescue of American journalism:
Discussion: New York Times
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Doug Liman, the director of “Justice”, on making the documentary about Brett Kavanaugh in secret, its surprise screening at Sundance, more  —  The filmmaker kept his project under wraps with the help of NDAs and a commitment to self-financing …
Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle:
A look at the San Francisco Inquirer, launched by an NY consultant to look like a local news site and pressure lawmakers into supporting a Bay Area-based tribe  —  WASHINGTON — A New York consultant who reportedly published false news articles about political figures has created a website called …
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:
Creators from India's hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts and running into copyright issues for “fact channels” that add context to other users' videos  —  A new generation of creators found success on YouTube Shorts.  Now, YouTube is after them for violating its community guidelines.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Comscore: Variety averaged 28.5M unique monthly users in 2022, beating all other trade news sites and eclipsing Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly audiences  —  Variety.com, the online home of entertainment business magazine Variety, scored record-breaking traffic in 2022.
Discussion: Variety
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
Listen Notes: ~219K podcasts were created in 2022, down nearly 80% from a peak of ~1M in 2020 and lower than the pre-pandemic high of ~337K in 2019  —  Hope you all had a great weekend!  We've got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for you all, as well as the latest in audio news.
Nieman Lab:
In interviews with 16 US whistleblowers who contacted journalists between the 1970s and 2010s, about half say the media is antagonistic and not a good partner  —  There is perhaps no more studied — or worried-about — dimension of news over the past five to ten years than the decline of media trust.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Vox Media is laying off 7% of its staff, or ~133 people, across editorial, revenue, operations, and core services, after cutting 39 positions in July 2022  —  Vox Media is laying off 7% of its staff, according to a memo sent internally from CEO Jim Bankoff, obtained by Axios.
 
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Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg:
Indian government asks Twitter and YouTube to take down videos and tweets about a BBC documentary on 2002 religious riots in Modi's home state of Gujarat
Mia Sato / The Verge:
In a staff call, CNET and Red Ventures executives said they were pausing AI-generated content on CNET and other websites and detailed their proprietary AI tool
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
An interview with Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc on her and investors' plans to sell the company; source: Vice had ~$600M revenue in 2022, below its $700M target
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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
According to six employees and an internal doc, TikTok and ByteDance staff engage in “heating”, or inflating video view counts, to court influencers and brands
The Hollywood Reporter:
Penske Media and Japan's Hersey Shiga Global launch The Hollywood Reporter Japan, which will offer translated entertainment industry news and original reporting
Discussion: PMC and MediaPost
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Twitter is testing a feature for verified journalists that adds their publication's logo, linked to the outlet's main Twitter account, next to blue checkmarks
Ayenat Mersie / Reuters:
Rwandan journalist and government critic John Williams Ntwali died on January 18 in a car accident; activists and journalists question the official narrative
 

 
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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

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, hands-free Apple Music controls, and a new frame style

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Tesla teases a ridehailing function in its app and says its robotaxi will be “purpose-built”, suggesting it will be built from the ground up to be self-driving

 
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