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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Paramount's stock jumps ~14% over reports Skydance Media CEO David Ellison and RedBird Capital's Gerry Cardinale are “kicking the tires” on acquiring its assets — The companies are reportedly interested in parent company National Amusements' majority stake in the media conglomerate
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Puck, Deadline, CNBC, Next TV, The Information, Matthew Belloni on LinkedIn, The Hollywood Reporter, @benmullin and Cord Cutters News
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
ABC News plans to host the sixth Republican presidential primary debate, in New Hampshire on January 18, three days before a CNN debate at the same location — ABC News announced Thursday that it will host the sixth GOP debate on Jan. 18 in Manchester, New Hampshire, set to take place just days before a CNN event at the same location.
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CNN plans to host two Republican presidential primary debates, set for January 10 in Iowa and for January 21 in New Hampshire; CNN Max will stream both debates
CNN plans to host two Republican presidential primary debates, set for January 10 in Iowa and for January 21 in New Hampshire; CNN Max will stream both debates
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Reuters:
After a Reuters report found that Israel fired the shells that killed journalist Issam Abdallah on October 13, Israel says Abdallah was in an active combat zone — The Israeli military, responding on Friday to a Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed a Reuters journalist …
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The Wrap, HuffPost, Talking Biz News, CBS News, @jsymmescobb@threads.net, PetaPixel, Why Evolution Is True, The Messenger, UPI and The Guardian
Lee Enterprises, Inc.:
Lee Enterprises reports Q4 operating revenue down 15.3% YoY to $164M, net loss down 80% YoY to $1.3M, and digital-only subscribers up 36% YoY to 721K — Total Digital Revenue(1) was $73M in the quarter, representing 44% of revenue — Digital-only subscribers total 721,000, exceeding guidance and up 36% YOY
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CBS News journalist Catherine Herridge could face a contempt of court sanction and fines for not revealing a source for stories she wrote at Fox News in 2017 — First Amendment advocates are alarmed by the case of Catherine Herridge, who is facing an imminent court deadline and steep fines
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@brandonmillman
Poynter:
Challenger, Gray & Christmas: the news sector of the media industry has seen 2,681 job cuts from January through November 2023, more than in all of 2022 or 2021 — The news sector alone has lost 2,681 jobs so far in 2023 — more than it did in all of 2022 or 2021.
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Donovan Farnham on LinkedIn, @skyler_higley, @danackerman, Challenger … and Variety
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
An experiment involving nearly 1,483 US readers showed that people perceived news outlets as less trustworthy when the outlets labeled articles as AI-generated — “We already expect quite a lot from the public in terms of media literacy to be able to navigate the contemporary information environment …
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Futurism, American Press Institute, @joelmathis.bsky.social and @nic221@techhub.social
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
An untitled countdown timer viewable only on the Threads.net homepage in EU countries suggests that the service will be expanded to EU users on December 14 — Following its rollout in countries like the US and UK this past July, Threads will finally be expanded to users in the European Union on December 14th.
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Engadget, The Messenger, Interhacktives, @Cafeine@mastodon.social, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
Axel Springer is shutting down its news aggregator app Upday at the end of December and plans to relaunch it as a “trend news generator” driven by AI in 2024 — Axel Springer is shutting down the news outlet Upday, the German publishing giant said on Friday, in plans to revive the brand as a …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: DAZN Group, the sports streaming company backed by Len Blavatnik, is exploring ways to raise as much as $1B, seeking to accelerate its global expansion — - Blavatnik's sports broadcaster holds talks with advisers — CEO previously said DAZN would welcome strategic partners
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: X has held preliminary talks with Amazon to make ads available via Amazon's ad-buying software, and PubMatic, seeking to attract more small advertisers — Social-media platform has had preliminary talks with Amazon to sell ads through e-commerce giant's ad-buying software
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PRWeek, The Messenger, The Guardian, Reuters, @iedamarcondes.com, Forbes, The Hill, The Daily Beast, NPR, New York Post, Financial Times and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Lisa Heyamoto / LION Publishers:
Lessons from LION's Revenue Growth Fellowship: revenue growth requires operational readiness, a clear strategy, leader involvement, and hiring the right person — How strategy, structure and consistency are essential for revenue growth, and other lessons learned from our Revenue Growth Fellowship
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Anika Anand on LinkedIn