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5:30 AM ET, December 18, 2023

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Disney, WBD, and other studios are licensing more content to Netflix in return for much-needed cash, but are holding back their most popular movies and shows  —  When building their own streaming companies, many entertainment studios ended lucrative licensing deals with Netflix.
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  —  The Deming Headlight's office shares a downtown block with a barber, a hearing aid supplier and quinceañera dress shop …
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  —  A number have returned or are angling to come back — from retired Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger, who resumed his duties a year ago …
Alan Rusbridger / Prospect Magazine:
The Prince Harry hacking verdict shows that newspaper management at two of the UK's biggest media companies lied to Parliament, other journalists, and others  —  Piece by painful piece, the murky truth about the darker corners of the British newspaper industry has been revealed
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The Guardian:
Piers Morgan, Daily Mirror's editor from 1995 to 2004, denies he was aware of the paper's phone hacking, after a UK judge said there “can be no doubt” he knew
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
A UK judge rules that 15 out of 33 Daily Mirror articles about Prince Harry were a result of phone hacking and awards him £140,600 in damages for the “distress”
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  —  The Comcast-owned group has secured rights to broadcast 1,200 football matches a year  —  Sky will aim to capitalise …
CBC News:
Canada plans to distribute 63% of Google's CA$100M media fund each year to print and digital media, 7% to CBC/Radio-Canada, and 30% to other broadcasters  —  CBC/Radio-Canada will get a maximum of 7% of fund, other broadcasters to split 30%  —  Almost two-thirds of the $100 million Google must give …
Clare Duffy / CNN:
As TikTok rolls out its new Creativity Program Beta, some creators say they're frustrated by its push to become a “mini YouTube” with videos of up to 10 minutes  —  New York CNN —  —  When TikTok took off in 2020 — with short dancing or comedy clips providing much-needed entertainment …
Tom Kizzia / Anchorage Daily News:
Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Weaver, a former editor of the Anchorage Daily News and a former McClatchy vice president for news, dies at 73 of pancreatic cancer  —  Weaver led the Daily News through a period of remarkable growth and transformation for Anchorage and Alaska, and later became an executive with McClatchy newspapers.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, such as supporting following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability  —  The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’
 
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Israeli drones fired missiles in Khan Younis, Gaza, killing Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Samer Abudaqa on December 15 and wounding bureau chief Wael Dahdouh
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