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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The BBC plans to produce nine fewer hours of BBC2 documentaries, cut BBC News' Our World, and move BBC News at One to Salford and extend the show by an hour — - Andrew Lloyd Webber-Backed Drama School ArtsEd To Launch External Review Amid Bullying Allegations
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The Guardian:
The BBC says Newsnight will become a “30-minute interview, debate, and discussion show” and cuts 30+ jobs to save £7.5M as part of plans to make £500M in cuts — Loss of more than half of jobs at flagship BBC Two political programme part of plan to save £500m
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Music and culture outlet Paste Magazine buys Jezebel, with plans to start publishing today, and Splinter, the political news site shut down by G/O Media in 2019 — The pioneering feminist website is being sold to Paste by G/O Media, which had shut down the site this month.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Adalytics: Google ads appear on many compromising sites that make up its Search Partners network; Google attacks Adalytics but plans to review its findings — Adtech report exposes brand safety and ad fraud risks lurking in the Google Search Partners network...
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Steven J. Horowitz / Variety:
Spotify reveals 2023's most-streamed artists, albums, songs, and podcasts: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus' Flowers, The Joe Rogan Experience, and more — Spotify has revealed its annual Wrapped campaign for 2023, announcing the top-streamed artists, albums, songs and podcasts …
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Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a Me in 2023 feature that assigns users one of 12 themes to describe their listening habits, on mobile and desktop
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A Washington Post spokesperson says the company has decided to pause advertising on X, after Elon Musk's amplification of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory — The far-right theory motivated a gunman to fire multiple rounds inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Northwest Washington in 2016.
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Steph Brawn / The National:
The BBC apologizes after an “editing error” led to an inaccurate Arabic translation being shown against an interview with a released Palestinian prisoner — THE BBC has issued a formal apology after an “editing error” led to an inaccurate translation being shown against an interview with a released Palestinian prisoner.
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Variety:
Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech slamming Donald Trump, which he read anyway from his phone — The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday's Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage …
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The Guardian reaches a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to develop the Guardian Media Group's content for adaptation to film and TV — Collaboration will give Sony Pictures Entertainment exclusive first-look rights to Guardian's global journalism
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Mike Seymour / fxguide:
Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its workforce, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its core business in a “company reset” — UPDATE: Scroll down for a statement from WētāFX: — Reuters is reporting that Unity Software …
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Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Digital TV Research: global video-on-demand subscriptions are expected to grow by 321M between 2023 and 2029 to 1.79B, with the six top US-based services up 26% — Global subscription video-on-demand/SVOD subscriptions will grow by 321 million between 2023 and 2029, to reach 1.79 billion …
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Jeff Zucker, CEO of Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI and ex-CNN head, insists he would preserve editorial independence of The Telegraph under RedBird's funding plan — CNN veteran insists editorial independence would be preserved under proposed new ownership — The leader of the Abu-Dhabi …
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