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6:35 AM ET, January 25, 2024

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR names Web Summit CEO and former Wikimedia Foundation chief Katherine Maher as its 12th permanent CEO and president  —  NPR has selected former Wikimedia Foundation chief Katherine Maher to lead the network through an era of declining broadcast listenership, financial uncertainty and technological turbulence.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Antenna: Peacock's exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game drove a record 2.8M sign-ups for the streaming service  —  NBCU already claimed the Jan. 13 playoff game was the biggest live-streamed event in U.S. history — delivering an average audience of 23 million viewers.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Skydance CEO David Ellison has made a preliminary offer to buy Redstone family's National Amusements, as a way to take control of Paramount Global  —  - Both sides have advisers, are sharing financial information  — Son of Oracle Corp. co-founder has met with Shari Redstone
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at City Cast, which now has four-person teams producing local news newsletters and podcasts in 11 US cities, after a 2021 launch in Chicago and Denver  —  This month, City Cast published guest demographic data for podcasts in its 11 cities and analyzed how that data compared to each local community.
Discussion: City Cast
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
How the rising prices of streaming services are driving a new era of US pirate sites, bringing ~$2B per year in ads and subscriptions with a 90% profit margin  —  Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.
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Yona Tr Golding / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Ann Cooper, co-author of an upcoming book about the AP in Nazi Germany, on AP's choice to submit to censorship, the politics of war reporting, and more  —  In 2016, seventy-one years after the end of World War II, Harriet Scharnberg, a German historian, published a report alleging …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comedy Central says Jon Stewart will return to The Daily Show as Monday host during the 2024 election cycle, starting on February 12, and as executive producer  —  Comedy Central is reaching back to the past to keep its long-running “The Daily Show” going in the present.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bloomberg names veteran technology journalist Brad Stone as the next editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, as the magazine shifts from weekly to monthly publication  —  Mr. Stone will take the helm as the 94-year-old magazine shifts from weekly to monthly publication.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Bob Iger's ex-colleagues and others say he is making the same mistakes as his predecessor Michael Eisner, when faced with investor attacks and other challenges  —  Two decades after replacing Eisner, CEO faces many of the same challenges  —  Disney's embattled CEO was under fire from activist investors.
Discussion: Business Insider
New York Times:
How Sports Illustrated, whose cover was once the most coveted real estate in sports journalism, lost its power to set the agenda as its elite photographers left  —  It used to be the most coveted real estate in sports journalism.  But its power to set the agenda disappeared along with its elite photographers.
 
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Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch changes the Prime Gaming subscription payout model to a fixed rate, expands the Partner Plus Program, and removes the $100K cap for 70/30 revenue share
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: G/O Media is shopping around its portfolio of editorial assets on an individual basis, with an emphasis on offloading The Onion, which isn't profitable
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
HuffPost UK increased its freelancer invoicing period from 30 to 60 days in September 2023, telling some freelancers that the outlet had “cash flow problems”
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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
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Noam Cohen / Bloomberg:
As Wikimedia Russia shuts down, a look at the Kremlin-compliant Wikipedia alternative Ruwiki, which recently went live, led by an ex-Wikimedia Russia director
John Koblin / New York Times:
Sources: Netflix plans to begin streaming HBO's Sex and the City in early April 2024, but the series' spinoff And Just Like That will remain exclusive to Max
James Tapper / The Guardian:
A filing in a class action suit by 10 US artists against Midjourney and others lists 16,000 artist names whose work Midjourney had allegedly used for training
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
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