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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Q&A with CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht on giving correspondents more airtime, 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 will air Bill Maher's Overtime, the offshoot of his HBO show Real Time, at 11:30pm ET on Friday nights, after new episodes of Real Time 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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Mediaite, CNN, @jbenton, @mikeelgan, Deadline 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 …
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Axios, @semafor, @semaforben, @rafat, @clarajeffery, @jayrosen_nyu and Press Gazette
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Australia plans to introduce content quotas for video streamers from 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.
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The Streamable, @tvgrimreaper, WORLD SCREEN, @parismarx, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline
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 …
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@sarthakgh, Digital Music News, Hot Pod News, The Hollywood Reporter and Podnews
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Kantar: UK households with at least one streaming subscription fell from 17.1M in 2021 to 16.24M in 2022; the total number of subscriptions fell by 2M to 28.5M — 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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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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Ryan Grim, @restofworld, The Siasat Daily, The Indian Express, @risj_oxford, Deadline, Day In The Life, Boing Boing, Al Jazeera and MediaNama
Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
Q&A with an 18-year-old who started solving crossword puzzles while at camp and got his crossword published in the Sunday New York Times after 16+ rejections — Placing a Sunday crossword in the New York Times is a major achievement for anyone, but it's particularly impressive when you're still in high school.
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@realaxelfoley, @intelligencer and Financial Times
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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@meredithblake, @ebony, The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, Footwear News and Fox News
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.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The first BBC-commissioned impartiality report says BBC News journalists' failure to understand “basic economics” brings 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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Too Much TV Newsletter, BBC and @meadwaj
Sophie Vershbow / Esquire:
Authors, editors, agents, booksellers, and others worry about the potential final days of #BookTwitter, a community creating book deals, friendships, and more — “It feels like the castle we made is being swept off the table by a billionaire's tantrum,” one writer says.
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