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4:40 PM ET, January 22, 2024

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Los Angeles Times managing editors Sara Yasin and Shani O. Hilton have exited less than two weeks after executive editor Kevin Merida resigned from the paper  —  UPDATED, 11:42 AM: Two more top editors have resigned from the Los Angeles Times ahead of a new round of planned layoffs.
Max Tani / Semafor:
The 2024 GOP primary races are failing to lure news audiences back, with ratings down, as media execs reckon with the lack of a “Trump bump” to save ad budgets  —  The News  —  For one week every four years, the DoubleTree hotel in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: popular YouTuber MrBeast is nearing a deal for a reality-competition show with Amazon's Prime Video; the deal is reportedly worth around $100M  —  MrBeast, the massively popular YouTube creator known for big-money giveaways and outlandish stunts, is nearing a deal for a reality-competition show …
Discussion: Puck and Tubefilter
Reuters:
Sony sends a termination notice to Zee Entertainment to call off the $10B merger between its Indian media unit and Zee, citing unmet conditions as the reason  —  Japan's Sony Group (6758.T) said on Monday it has sent a termination notice to Zee Entertainment (ZEE.NS) to call off a $10 billion merger …
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Memo: Verizon chief content officer Erin McPherson, who helped make distribution deals with Netflix, Disney+, and others, is leaving at the end of February  —  Erin McPherson, senior vice president and chief content officer at Verizon who spearheaded the telecom giant's content and distribution deals …
Discussion: TVLine and @sizpatel
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, raised an $80M Series B co-led by a16z, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation  —  There's a lot of money in voice cloning.  —  Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create …
Joe Posnanski / JoeBlogs:
Joe Posnanski, a former Sports Illustrated senior columnist, reflects on the magazine's impact on his own life and on sports journalism before the internet  —  At the moment, there's confusion.  Heartbreak and confusion.  Sports Illustrated may live on.  It may not.  It may morph into something else.
Discussion: @tommytomlinson and NPR
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
The UK publishes its mid-term review of the BBC's Royal Charter, ending on December 31, 2027, saying “the BBC needs to adapt or risk losing” audience trust  —  The U.K. government is giving more power to the BBC and media regulator Ofcom to handle complaints as part of its mid-term review into the corporation's functioning.
 
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Aylin Woodward / Wall Street Journal:
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Donald Trump's campaign refused to let NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard travel as a pool reporter, leading to NBC News' access being cut off for the day
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
How a cascade of media failures led to misleadingly truncated quotes from Israeli officials about Gaza being cited in the BBC, NPR, The New York Times, and more
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Nightshade, a free tool that lets artists “poison” AI models being trained on their artwork without permission, is now available to download for Mac and PC
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
An interview with The Guardian US director of consumer revenue about how the publisher raised a record $2.2M in its 2023 year-end fundraiser
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
After concerns about Trump ally David Smith's purchase of The Baltimore Sun, a partner in the deal says personal politics would not affect The Sun's journalism