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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Onion, backed by some Sandy Hook families and Everytown for Gun Safety, buys Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, and plans a January 2025 relaunch as a parody  —  The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts  —  Rate hikes at the NFL and NBA may mean that sports drive the slight spending increase, with the company reporting $23.4 billion for this past year.
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Disney reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $22.6B, TV network revenue down 6% YoY to $2.5B, and a $321M DTC streaming profit, up from a $387M loss in Q4 2023
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
In Q4, Disney added 4.4M Disney+ Core paid subscribers, reaching 120M in total, Disney+ Hotstar subscribers rose 1% YoY to 35.9M, and Hulu subscribers hit 52M
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
In its Q4 report, Disney, which rarely offers guidance, shares growth expectations to 2027, including a ~$700M operating profit in DTC streaming in 2025
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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Small to mid-sized US unscripted producers like Lucky 8 are looking overseas to find new business and co-producers as the US market contraction hits budgets  —  Last month at MIPCOM, many regulars at the Cannes TV market noticed more American accents on the Croisette than usual.
Lachlan Cartwright / Columbia Journalism Review:
Just before the election, a Trump lawyer demanded $10B in damages from the NYT and Penguin Random House, part of a flurry of Trump's legal threats to media  —  Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.  —  The letter, addressed to lawyers …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube: 45M+ people in the US watched election content on November 5; top livestreams were from Fox News, NBC News, LiveNOW, ABC News, and the PBD Podcast  —  The Google-owned video platform released data Thursday indicating that tens of millions of Americans decided to watch their election returns there.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025  —  Google has announced it will stop showing political ads to users in the European Union next year due to uncertainties around the bloc's new transparency regulations.
UnHerd:
Scientific American EIC Laura Helmuth is stepping down, following criticism for her social media posts suggesting Trump voters were racist, sexist, and fascist  —  The embattled Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American is leaving her role after her anti-Trump social media posts gained national attention.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok adds Getty Images to its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, which lets advertisers use the images to make videos, create AI avatars, and more  —  TikTok will let advertisers pull in content from Getty Images when using the platform's AI ad creation tool.
Dell Cameron / Wired:
The PRESS Act, shielding journalists from US government spying, stalls as Senate Democrats juggle legislative priorities before ceding control January 3  —  The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the House …
Washington Post:
WaPo names Liz Seymour managing editor; she has held various roles over 25 years at the outlet, including deputy managing editor and executive features editor  —  A veteran Washington Post newsroom leader, Seymour marks her 25th year at the publication  —  The Washington Post today named …
 
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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The WSJ is testing AI-generated article summaries at the top of new stories in a “Key Points” box to see how readers respond, following Gannett and others
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Guido Fawkes owner Paul Staines plans to step down as editor of the UK political news blog after 20 years; the blog has crowdfunded £92K+ to fight a libel claim
New York Times:
A look at “blind box livestreaming”, an e-commerce trend in China that has become an entertaining and, some users and experts said, addictive pastime
Christianna Silva / Mashable:
The once-unified BookTok community has become a battleground over politics and how it intersects with writers, influencers, readers, and the books themselves
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on AI-generated music, NotebookLM podcasts, AI recommendations, improving discoverability, and more
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The Guardian says it will no longer post on “any official Guardian editorial accounts” on “toxic media platform” X; reporters will still use X to gather news
 

 
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Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live
 
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