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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 …
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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 …
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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
Paramount Global will rebrand Showtime and the ad-free pricing tier of Paramount+ as “Paramount+ with Showtime” in 2023 and warns of “uncertainty” for staff — It's been a long time coming, but later this year, Paramount Global will finally fully integrate the streaming arm …
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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 …
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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.
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Mustafa Abu Sneineh / Middle East Eye:
BBC Arabic, the BBC's first non-English radio service, closes after 85 years, as part of a September 2022 announcement of cost cutting and a shift to digital — The first foreign language radio of the British Empire Service, set up to counter the German and Italian propaganda, began its life in 1938
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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.
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 …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Donald Trump sues Bob Woodward over audio interviews for Woodward's book Rage that Trump says he didn't agree could be used in a separate book, The Trump Tapes — Former President Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward over interview recordings that Trump alleges he didn't agree could be included in an audiobook.
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 …
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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
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Memo: HarperCollins plans to cut 5% of its North American workforce by June 30, as the sales surge during the pandemic has “slowed significantly of late” — HarperCollins, which laid off a “small number” of workers last fall, is taking more drastic steps to reduce its workforce …
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