Mediagazer: The News Leaders Association's board approves a member vote to dissolve NLA by June 2024 and distribute assets, such as Sunshine Week, to journalism nonprofits (News Leaders Association)

Jay Peters / The Verge:

Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed — Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.

Discussion: About Netflix, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, The Streamable, Variety, CNBC, Engadget, Vanity Fair, @loudmouthjulia, Marianna Scharf on LinkedIn, Consequence, Bloomberg, Media Play News, @netflix and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:

The New York Times hires Quartz co-founder Zach Seward to work with its newsroom's leadership to establish principles around using and not using generative AI — Quartz co-founder Zach Seward tasked with establishing principles for how the Times will and won't use generative AI

Discussion: The New York Times Company, Talking Biz News, The Wrap, Connie Guglielmo on LinkedIn, Jeff Jarvis on LinkedIn, Zach Seward on LinkedIn, @alexbruell, @scottnover and @agoldmund, more at Techmeme »

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:

Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023 — - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers

Discussion: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, The Messenger, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today and The Drum, more at Techmeme »

Paresh Dave / Wired:

On November 17, YouTube removed code that said if a channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, which gives a cut of ad revenue, leaving researchers in the dark — YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit most from the platform.

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Paramount Global may lay off 1,000+ employees in early 2024, due to a weaker-than-expected ad market, after paring down its staff since earlier in 2023 — Shari Redstone considers sale of controlling stake in National Amusements amid pressures from Paramount's cable business, ad market

Discussion: Variety, The Desk, Jessica Toonkel on LinkedIn, The Wrap, Bloomberg, Madison and Wall, The Messenger and New York Post

Daniel Frankel / Next TV:

Comcast starts offering its Xumo Stream Box to its nearly 30M residential internet customers; the first device is free, and each additional one costs $5/month — The new joint-venture gadget replaces the Xfinity Flex puck that Comcast had been giving out for free to its broadband-only subscribers

Discussion: The Desk, Light Reading, Comcast, Cord Cutters News and Media Play News

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

Russian state media: in a new case, Russia accuses veteran RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, detained in October 2023, of spreading fake news about its army — Russian investigators have reportedly filed another case against veteran RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who is already being held …

Discussion: Agence France-Presse, The Straits Times, The Moscow Times and Meduza.io

News Leaders Association:

The News Leaders Association's board approves a member vote to dissolve NLA by June 2024 and distribute assets, such as Sunshine Week, to journalism nonprofits — During its final meeting of the year, the News Leaders Association Board of Directors unanimously approved the NLA membership's November vote …

Discussion: Poynter

Tiny News Collective:

The Tiny News Collective hires Amy L. Kovac-Ashley as its first executive director and says the nonprofit has helped launch 25 newsrooms in the US since 2021 — A Note from Kara Meyberg Guzman, Board Chair — Since 2020, the Tiny News Collective's board and staff have worked to build …

Discussion: Tiny News Collective, @terabithia4, Tiny News Collective, @terabithia4 and Chris Krewson on LinkedIn

David W. Dunlap / New York Times:

As The New York Times prints its 60,000th issue, the newspaper explains how a news assistant discovered in 1999 a numbering sequence error dating back to 1898 — In 1999, a news assistant's number crunching revealed that The Times had gotten ahead of itself.

Discussion: Sónia Matos on LinkedIn, The Hill, @silvermanjacob, @peterbakernyt, @elwasson, @michaelstarobin, Marc Lacey on LinkedIn, @benhoffmannyt and @nytimespr

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:

Liberty Media's LSXM combines with SiriusXM to form a new public company, called New SiriusXM, which will continue to operate under the SiriusXM brand — “This combination will create value for all stockholders by eliminating the tracking stock structure” and “enhancing liquidity.”

Discussion: Billboard, Inside Radio, RADIO ONLINE, Radio Ink, Radio & Television … and Cord Cutters News

Ted Johnson / Deadline:

Sports Illustrated publisher The Arena Group announces the termination of CEO Ross Levinsohn and names 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava as its interim CEO — - Anderson Cooper And Andy Cohen To Return For CNN's New Year's Eve Special; Sara Sidner and Cari Champion Tapped As Co-Hosts