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8:05 AM ET, December 19, 2023

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard plans to fully integrate with ActivityPub and is testing the move with select accounts, like Semafor, Medium, Polygon, Kotaku, Digiday, and The Verge  —  Instagram Threads isn't the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps …
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
MGM+ partners with Lionsgate on a licensing deal to expand into Latin America as part of its international rollout, starting with Brazil and Mexico in January  —  Under the pact, the MGM+ offer will boast leading series and movies from Lionsgate and Starz, alongside iconic films …
Discussion: The Desk and The Wrap
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Diamond Sports Group about an investment and a multiyear streaming partnership; Diamond would keep operating its cable networks  —  E-commerce giant would partner with Diamond on streaming as part of deal under discussion  —  Amazon is in talks to invest …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Puck announces a sports vertical, to be led by veteran SBJ reporter John Ourand; a source says Puck's $13M Series B over the summer valued the company at $70M+  —  New York CNN —  —  Puck is stepping into the sports arena.  —  The buzzy digital subscription publication that offers readers …
Julia Kollewe / The Guardian:
Hipgnosis delays its half-year results, saying the valuation by its independent valuer was “materially higher” than that implied by recent transactions  —  Company says songs have been assessed as worth more by independent valuer than recent transactions in the sector
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple says The NYT's The Athletic is now available to Apple News+ subscribers, and all Apple News users will be able to read Wirecutter for free in early 2024  —  NYT's Wirecutter reviews will be available free in Apple News app in 2024  —  The New York Times Co. inked a deal with Apple …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
How incarcerated journalists inside San Quentin prison are making podcasts about life behind bars and winning awards, despite facing retaliation and censorship  —  Inside San Quentin, residents are drawing mainstream audiences and shifting narratives about life behind bars
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
NewsGuard: since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created false articles have grown from 49 to 600+; some generate “hundreds if not thousands of articles” per day  —  AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news
Discussion: @pranshuverma_
Jon Porter / The Verge:
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access  —  X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union's tough new Digital Service Act rules …
Wall Street Journal:
The trial of Hong Kong media mogul and activist Jimmy Lai begins; Lai faces possible life imprisonment if convicted on charges of collusion with foreign forces  —  Media mogul faces up to life in prison if convicted under national security law  —  HONG KONG—The most high-profile case …
The Guardian:
Sources: the UK's Labour party won't oppose plans to weaken press regulation as its leaders court rightwing media owners like Rupert Murdoch before the election  —  The party has made it clear that Keir Starmer had no intention of reviving the second stage of the Leveson inquiry
Mikhail Klimentov / ReaderGrev:
A postmortem of The Washington Post's Launcher gaming vertical: 20 staff laid off, a lack of resources, executives' under appreciation of gaming media, and more  —  Why did The Washington Post kill its video game vertical? … November would have marked my four-year anniversary at Launcher …
 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
WWD names Eugenia Miranda Richman as its EIC, effective January 26, reporting to Fairchild Editorial Director Jim Fallon; Richman was previously SheKnows' EIC
Discussion: MediaPost
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Newsquest's head of editorial AI, Jody Doherty-Cove, says the UK regional publisher now employs seven AI-assisted reporters publishing “thousands of articles”
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Amy Bell / Financial Times:
Games Workshop finalizes a deal with Amazon to develop Warhammer 40,000 series movies and TV shows, bringing the fantasy games to the screen for the first time
Savannah Maher / Marketplace:
How new local ownership, in one year, revived The Deming Headlight, after Gannett turned the small-town New Mexico newspaper into “a ghost paper” without staff
Bloomberg:
Disney seems to have more than its share of boomerang executives, which include Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer, both once seen as potential successors to Bob Iger
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Streaming TV appears to have entered its franchise era; Netflix plans spinoffs of the Addams Family, Peaky Blinders, and action movie Extraction, among others
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Days after securing the rights to show the majority of English Premier League games, CEO Dana Strong says Sky plans to show up to 1,200 soccer matches per year
Discussion: Sky News and MediaPost