Mediagazer: 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 (Meredith Blake/Los Angeles Times)

12:30 PM ET, January 30, 2023

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …

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

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Daily Mail, Metro, and i publisher DMG Media's ad arm Mail Metro Media plans a major restructuring after advertising sales failed to recover post-pandemic — Mail, Metro and i publisher hit by advertising downturn. — [Update: Metro editor Ted Young stepping down as free daily faces major cutbacks]

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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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