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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance quizzes and personalize content; a spokeswoman says the newsroom remains focused on human-generated journalism — CEO Jonah Peretti said publisher would use the technology to make more comprehensive quizzes, interactive content
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
In a memo to staff, Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel announces layoffs affecting 274 people, or ~7% of the outlet's workforce, across nearly all departments — Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest print and digital publishers in the country, is laying off 274 people, roughly 7% of its staff …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCU reports Q4 revenue rose 5.9% YoY to $9.89B as EBITDA fell 36.3% YoY to $817M; Peacock had 20M+ paid subscribers and its EBITDA loss grew 75% YoY to $978M — Parent company Comcast reported its broadband and pay TV subscriber figures for the latest period.
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Philip Stafford / Financial Times:
Chicago-based Clouty creates a tradeable index tracking revenue made by the top 500 songs streamed globally, as private equity groups invest in music catalogs — Start-up is seeking to launch futures to let streaming companies and rights owners manage risks
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen's most-streamed titles on US TVs in 2022: Stranger Things, followed by NCIS, CoComelon, Ozark, and Encanto; streaming consumption rose by about 27% YoY — Nielsen's year-end rankings put the Netflix hit head and shoulders above every other title. — One of Netflix's biggest shows ever is …
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Kareem Shaheen / New Lines Magazine:
Mainstream outlets made important missteps in the Hamline University controversy, particularly by not publishing the painting of Muhammad that sparked it all — The omission is curious because the drawings are central to both the reporting and the cause of academic freedom
Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:
Q&A with David Cohen, the CEO of ad trade group IAB, who has blasted Apple's ATT rules and legislators' labeling of personalized ads as surveillance capitalism — Digital advertising's biggest trade organization, the IAB, took a shot at Apple on Monday.
Washington Post:
After layoffs, The Washington Post adds seven contributors to its opinion section and two visual team members to present content in “new and compelling formats” — The Washington Post's opinion section continues to grow under Editorial Page Editor David Shipley's direction adding seven new contributors today.
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Lucia Moses / Insider:
Bloomberg plans to hire 1,000 staff in 2023, some for its news arm, and form a team to improve the Bloomberg Terminal's user experience and news discoverability — - Bloomberg LP plans to hire 1,000 people this year as other media and finance companies slash staff.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launched its flagship TikTok account on January 24, after creating specialized accounts including for NYT Cooking and the Hard Fork podcast — On March 21, 2007, The New York Times announced itself on Twitter: “Word up! It is I, the Gray Lady, with a ‘shoutout’ to all my hip young friends.
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Meduza.io:
Russia designates Meduza an illegal, “undesirable organization”, meaning anyone who “cooperates” with the outlet, including sources, can face felony prosecution — The Russian Prosecutor General's Office designated Meduza as an illegal, “undesirable organization” on Thursday, January 26.
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