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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.
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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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The Guardian, Byline Times, @uvuume, @peterjukes, @peterjukes, @brianstelter, @bgrueskin, @davidfolkenflik and Hacked Off
Drew Richardson / CNBC:
Disney investor Ancora urges other Disney shareholders to put Nelson Peltz on the board and blasts the existing board for “sustained value destruction” — - Activist investor Ancora issued a letter to Disney shareholders urging the company to add Nelson Peltz to its board.
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Business Wire, Yahoo Finance, @ernie.tedium.co, The Wrap and Axios
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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@tomgara, @brianstelter, @jaycodon, @kantrowitz, @theinformation, @mvpeers, @lessin, @jessicalessin, @charlottetklein, @lessin, @theinformation and Talking Biz News
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Telemundo names former Noticias Telemundo president Luis Fernández as chairman, replacing Beau Ferrari, who will become an adviser with NBCUniversal News Group — - Spectrum-Disney Deal “Absolutely” Created Blueprint For Future Carriage Deals, Charter CFO Says; Q4 Broadband Subscriber Loss Warning Hits Stock
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Variety, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, The Hollywood Reporter and WORLD SCREEN
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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@aquinas82nd, @dantracey1983, @novy_williams, @sam__carp, @seaningle, Daily Mail, @mc_of_a, London Evening Standard, @frankdalleres, @rltsports, @darrensmithtwif, @iatalkspace, @tw_seal, @philblundell, @graemebailey, @jackgen0vese, WORLD SCREEN, The Desk, Awful Announcing, Financial Times, Broadband TV News and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
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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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Sports Business Journal, Awful Announcing, Broadband TV News, @robharris, @willohara, @simonlester24, @david_conn, @tariqpanja, @skysports, @sistoney67, BBC and Sky News
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 …
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
Three Pixar movies released solely on Disney+ during the pandemic will come to theaters in 2024: Soul on January 12; Turning Red, February 9; and Luca, March 22 — The three movies will come to theaters nationwide in 2024, with tickets going on sale Jan. 2.
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The Wrap, IndieWire, SlashFilm, ScreenRant, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, The Verge, Engadget, The Walt Disney Company and The Playlist
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
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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@pressfreedom
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
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