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Tom Symonds / BBC:
Lawyers for News UK and former UK Cabinet minister Chris Huhne reach a settlement in a phone hacking case that Huhne says includes a “six figure sum” in damages — The publisher of the Sun and the News of the World has agreed a “six figure” settlement to a phone-hacking claim from a former government minister.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Sun publisher News Group Newspapers pays out “substantial damages” to a group of celebrities and apologizes over unlawful information-gathering practices — News Group Newspapers apologised to the claimants, who include Mel C and Catherine Tate.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT's new £6.7B UK TV rights deal for four soccer seasons from 2025/2026 — - BBC Names Royals Accused In Omid Scobie Book Of Commenting On Skin Color Of Harry & Meghan's Son
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Paul MacInnes / The Guardian:
The English Premier League signs a new deal with Sky and TNT Sports under which the soccer competition will receive £6.7B over four years for its UK TV rights
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Jessica Lessin and others reflect on 10 years of The Information, which has 65 full-time employees, 475K active readers, and expects revenue growing 30% in 2023 — As the tech website turns 10 this week, its editor in chief reflects on building a sustainable subscription business off Silicon Valley scoops …
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@brianstelter, @jaycodon, @kantrowitz, Talking Biz News, @theinformation, @mvpeers, @lessin, @jessicalessin, @charlottetklein, @lessin and @theinformation
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and CNN are seeing engagement grow on Threads, while the BBC, the Guardian US, and others stopped posting on the platform — This editorial series examines industry trends across the media, media buying and marketing sectors as 2023 closes and the new year begins.
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@gigold.social and @mkarolian@threads.net
Axios:
FazeWorld, a production studio that creates shows for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and others, raised a $750K seed round at a $7.5M valuation — FazeWorld, a production studio that's created viral TikTok shows, has raised a $750,000 seed round at a $7.5 million valuation from a slew of big names in media …
Press Gazette:
Editors at the UK's biggest commercial regional news publishers call for the BBC to stop “suffocating” their businesses and ditch its rollout of 34 local sites — In a rare joint public statement, senior editors at the UK's five biggest commercial regional news publishers …
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@iancarterim, Paul Rowland on LinkedIn, @pressgazette and HoldtheFrontPage
Committee to Protect Journalists:
In 10 days in November, eight Mexican journalists were abducted or shot at in four separate incidents; three regularly report on crime, security, and politics — Mexico City, December 4, 2023 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a spate of violent abductions and attacks …
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Jody Rosen / New York Times:
Behind the scenes of a Sunday Night Football broadcast, which is one of the most inventive and artful uses of the TV medium — Months of preparation, hundreds of staff, convoys of cutting-edge gear: inside the machine that crafts prime time's most popular entertainment.
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@fordm, @jodyrosen, @canonusa, @brianstelter, New York Post and Awful Announcing
Timmy Shen / The Block:
Sources: as part of its January 2023 merger with CryptoSlam, Forkast Labs laid off the majority of its editorial staff and suspended operations in November — - The crypto news site wound down editorial operations on Nov. 30, sources close to the matter said.
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Ex-Fox News employee Andrew Delancey sues the network and top producer Justin Wells over an alleged sexual assault; Wells now works on Tucker Carlson's X show — A former Fox News staffer is suing the producer — who was fired last spring along with the host — over the alleged assault …
Catharine Tunney / CBC News:
CBC/Radio-Canada plans to cut ~10% of its workforce, or 600 workers, and cut CA$40M in programming over the coming year to cope with a CA$125M budget shortfall — Public broadcaster says most cuts will take effect over the coming year — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada announced Monday …
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