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5:10 AM ET, February 13, 2024

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Slate says 2023 was the most profitable year in its 27 year history, with revenue up 28% YoY through investments and growth in its podcasts and website  —  The Scoop  —  Amid a difficult year for news media last year, at least one legacy digital media company has quietly been moving the other direction.
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Interviews with the four co-founders of 404 Media, who each own 25% of the tech news outlet, which they say is profitable six months after launch  —  “Owning our own work, and being beholden to no one but our readers and colleagues — as opposed to say, investors, venture capitalists …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
How generative AI is transforming the advertising industry; WPP and Publicis plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to embed AI in their businesses  —  At the start of the year, every single one of the roughly 100,000 people working for advertising giant Publicis received a video message …
Lynn Neary / NPR:
Bob Edwards, the veteran broadcaster who hosted NPR's Morning Edition for 24 years, dies at 76  —  Bob Edwards, the veteran broadcaster and longtime host of Morning Edition who left an indelible mark on NPR's sound, has died.  He was 76 years old.  —  NPR's Susan Stamberg …
John Archer / Forbes:
Amazon Prime Video's basic ad tier, which US subscribers who didn't pay extra were downgraded to on January 29, doesn't support Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos  —  Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.
Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen and Adobe Analytics: Super Bowl 2024 averaged 123.4M viewers across CBS and streaming services, making the game the most-watched telecast ever  —  The Feb. 11 Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers brought in an average of 123.4 million viewers …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A look at Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow's test to boost talk TV via Monday appearances; Vivvix: Daily Show had $39.9M in ad sales in 2022 vs. $129.1M in 2014  —  Can Mondays do for the TV business what Thursdays and Sundays once did?  Some of the medium's best-known personalities are trying to figure this question out.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Music encyclopedia EveryNoise, which uses Spotify data, stopped updating after Spotify laid off the employee running the site in December, pissing off its fans  —  Now, Glenn McDonald's beloved Every Noise At Once project is in jeopardy  —  On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found …
Carlos Aguilar / New York Times:
A look at movie distributor GKids, which is redefining animation for US audiences by releasing bold work from around the world, including Studio Ghibli's movies  —  The small distributor has outsize influence because it handles Studio Ghibli films in the United States.  Its titles have earned 13 Oscar nods.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with the US DOJ's Jonathan Kanter on Google's ad tech and search cases, media consolidation, blocking Penguin's merger with Simon & Schuster, and more  —  The assistant attorney general says “the resonance these issues have is something that I've never witnessed in my lifetime.”
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Guardian forecasts a £39M deficit in FY 2023/24 as ad revenue was down 16%, or £9M, in the nine months to Dec. 31 and membership revenue was £3M behind budget  —  Digital reader revenue came in 4% below expectations.  —  Advertising revenue at Guardian News and Media was down £9m …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
A look at the uncertain future of TalkTV as its star presenter Piers Morgan moves to YouTube, saying his daily show had become an “unnecessary straitjacket”
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
A look at STIRR, launched in 2019 by Sinclair with 100+ FAST channels and sold to Thinking Media in January 2024, as it plans an international expansion
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A look at the state of news media, which faces an “extinction-level event” despite constantly reshaping itself in the first three decades of digital publishing
Jenny Crawford / Pex:
Analysis: in 2023, 84.63% of TikTok videos contained music, up from 69.13% in 2019 and 83.06% in 2022, vs. 84% on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook
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