Mediagazer: Nielsen: CNN notched its lowest ratings in nine years for January 16-22, averaging 444,000 primetime viewers, below 450,000 for the first time since May 2014 (Joseph Kapsch/The Wrap)

Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:

Q&A with CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht on giving correspondents more airtime, no plans for a topical comedy talk show, interviewing GOP lawmakers, and more — Slumping ratings, cost-cutting, show cancellations and — comedy? — The path of CNN has been a bit rocky since it became part …

Discussion: The Streamable, The Wrap, @edmundlee, New York Post, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, @zaleskiluke, @bobbybigwheel, @samstein, @johnnydollar01, @jayrosen_nyu, @jdawsey1, @jakesherman, @jakesherman and The Daily Beast

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

CNN plans to air Bill Maher's Overtime, the offshoot of his HBO show Real Time, at 11:30pm ET on Friday nights, after new Real Time episodes air on HBO at 10pm — The offshoot of the HBO show ‘Real Time’ will air on CNN Fridays at 11:30 p.m. … The host of HBO's weekly late night series Real …

Discussion: Mediaite, CNN, Deadline, @jbenton, @mikeelgan, The Desk and @dougscripts

Ben Smith / Semafor:

The News Movement, a social media-first news outlet led by former BBC and News Corp executives, acquires video news startup The Recount for undisclosed equity — The News Movement, a video news organization started by former top executives at the BBC and News Corp., is hoping to establish …

Discussion: Axios, @semafor, @semaforben, @rafat, @clarajeffery, @jayrosen_nyu and Press Gazette

Russell Brandom / Rest of World:

The BBC issuing copyright takedowns to platforms hosting copies of its Narendra Modi documentary may unintentionally aid the impact of India's censorship orders — Copyright claims by the BBC are making a bad situation worse. — For just over a week, India's Ministry of Information …

Discussion: Reuters, Ryan Grim, The Indian Express, The Siasat Daily, @risj_oxford, Deadline, @restofworld, Day In The Life, Boing Boing and Al Jazeera

Patrick Frater / Variety:

Australia plans to add content quotas for video streaming services in the middle of 2024, as part of a five-year plan to reset the country's cultural strategy — Australia will introduce content quotas for video streaming platforms from the middle of next year, the federal government said on Monday.

Discussion: The Streamable, @parismarx, @tvgrimreaper, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and WORLD SCREEN

Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:

Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones on adapting The 1619 Project into a six-episode Hulu docuseries, responding to critics, incorporating her family history, and more — When “The 1619 Project” was released 3½ years ago, the ambitious reexamination of American history sparked difficult conversations …

Discussion: @meredithblake, @ebony, The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, Footwear News and Fox News

Max Goldbart / Deadline:

The first BBC-commissioned impartiality report says that BBC News journalists' failure to understand “basic economics” is bringing a “high risk to impartiality” — BBC News' journalists failure to understand “basic economics” is bringing a “high risk to impartiality,” according to a BBC-commissioned report.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, Press Gazette, BBC, @meadwaj and Too Much TV Newsletter

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

Kantar: UK households with at least one streaming subscription fell from 17.12M in 2021 to 16.24M in 2022 and total subscriptions fell by 2M+ to 28.5M in 2022 — Small recovery at end of 2022 likely to be short-lived, with Netflix's new ads package failing to reignite growth

Discussion: Reuters

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:

Source: Spotify's podcast team, under new head Sahar Elhabashi, is focusing less on quantity in favor of courting creators and building a select group of hits — Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite. It's another bleak week in the media and audio worlds, so we'll be talking …

Discussion: @sarthakgh, Digital Music News, Hot Pod News, The Hollywood Reporter and Podnews

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Mail Metro Media, the advertising arm of Mail, Metro, and i publisher DMG Media, plans a major restructuring amid sales not recovering well after the pandemic — Mail, Metro and i publisher hit by advertising downturn. — [Update: Metro editor Ted Young stepping down as free daily faces major cutbacks]

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @pressgazette and @pressgazette

Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:

HuffPost Union says 98% of its 91 members voted to strike if a new collective bargaining agreement is not reached before the current contract expires on Tuesday — Members of the HuffPost Union issued a statement Monday that they are ready to strike if a new collective bargaining agreement …

Discussion: @huffpostunion and Deadline

Deadline:

CNN aired raw police body cam footage of Tyre Nichols' fatal arrest first, as MSNBC, Fox News, and others were initially cautious in showing the graphic video — CNN went first, but other cable news outlets were cautious today in showing the horrific police body cam video footage of the fatal January 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols.