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2:05 PM ET, January 23, 2023

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Eva Mathews / Reuters:
Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or ~600 jobs, says content and ad head Dawn Ostroff is leaving, and reorganizes its engineering and product units  —  Music streaming firm Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) plans to cut 6% of its workforce, the company said on Monday …
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Hamish Morrison / The National:
Report: BBC chairman Richard Sharp helped Boris Johnson secure an £800,000 loan in 2020, just weeks before the then-prime minister recommended Sharp for the job  —  BBC chairman Richard Sharp reportedly helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of £800,000 just weeks before he was recommended …
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
BBC chair Richard Sharp says he's asked the BBC board to review any potential conflicts of interest over his reported role in securing a loan for Boris Johnson
Ben Smith / Semafor:
The unprofitable Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, and Time rely on their billionaire owners' goodwill to survive while trying new business models  —  Starting a decade ago, a generation of new-money billionaires rode to the rescue of American journalism:
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
Friends and colleagues of Deadline founder Nikki Finke, who died in October 2022, recall her last years and try to make sense of Hollywood's brashest chronicler  —  Was Nikki Finke a genius or a monster?  Friends and colleagues try to make sense of the entertainment industry's brashest chronicler.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Netflix is well-positioned due to low debt load, its investments, and first mover advantage; long-term success still requires making compelling content at scale  —  Netflix's moment of greatest peril is, in retrospect, barely visible in the company's stock chart:
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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
Reuters:
Prominent Cameroonian journalist Martinez Zogo's mutilated body was found on January 22, five days after being abducted, showing reporting perils in the country  —  The mutilated body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist was found on Sunday near the capital Yaounde five days after he was abducted …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
SCOTUS asks the Biden administration for its views on the constitutionality of Florida's and Texas' social media laws, likely putting off a decision until 2024  —  The laws, enacted by Florida and Texas in response to conservative complaints about censorship, have been challenged under the First Amendment.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta expands its partnership with the NBA to offer 52 games in VR, including five immersive 180-degree monoscopic VR games, as well as some WNBA games and more  —  Meta is expanding its partnership with the NBA and WNBA to offer more than 50 live games in VR on Meta Quest, the company announced on Monday.
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
How artists Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and Sarah Andersen found each other due to their AI concerns and sued Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt  —  “This [tech] effectively destroys an entire career path.”  —  Last year, Kelly McKernan, a 36-year-old artist from Nashville …
 
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Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle:
A look at the San Francisco Inquirer, launched by a New York consultant to look like a local news site and pressure lawmakers to support a Bay Area-based tribe
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with “Justice” director Doug Liman on making the Brett Kavanaugh documentary in secret for over a year, its surprise Sundance screening, and more
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
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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
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