Mediagazer: DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer (Matthew Keys/The Desk)

Matthew Keys / The Desk:

DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer — Pay television provider DirecTV on Thursday officially announced it will terminate its agreement to acquire rival satellite company Dish Network and its streaming service Sling TV from Echostar this week.

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:

A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed — Some prominent podcast hosts are shifting away from interviews in favor of monologues and co-hosts — Hello and welcome back to Soundbite.

Gene Maddaus / Variety:

WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers — Writers on “Frontline,” “American Experience,” “NOVA” and other PBS shows have averted a strike after reaching a deal with three affiliates.

Discussion: TVNewsCheck, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Writers Guild of America East, Writers Guild of America East and AV Club

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years — New Statesman editor-in-chief Jason Cowley has announced he will step down at the end of December after 16 years at the title.

Discussion: New Statesman, @kevmag.bsky.social, @georgeeaton.bsky.social, @helenlewis.bsky.social, @gabrielmilland.bsky.social, The New European and Guido Fawkes

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites — Reporting that pops up in different media, documents as proof, and crowdsourced investigations have revealed corruption.

Max Goldbart / Deadline:

The English Premier League ends its content partnership with IMG and plans to bring content production and distribution in-house in 2026 — The UK's Premier League soccer is to start producing and distributing its own content for the first time in two decades after ending its partnership with IMG.

Discussion: Premier League Football News …, Advanced Television and @brandonsvg.bsky.social

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price — Media Concierge submits £56.2m cash offer for National World, underbidder in the auction for the Telegraph titles

Discussion: Press Gazette, Financial Times, London Evening Standard and HoldtheFrontPage

The New York Times Company:

The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021 — Dick, who embodies the mission of producing independent journalism, brings decades of experience to the role.

Discussion: The Wrap

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:

Texas' AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to find if it conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms”; X sued the WFA in August — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday he is opening an investigation into the World Federation of Advertisers …

Discussion: Techdirt, MediaPost, @elonmusk, Texas Attorney General, @lolagaylec.bsky.social, @kenpaxtontx, Bloomberg Law, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Reclaim The Net and The Post Millennial

Diane Sylvester / Editor and Publisher:

A look at The 51st, a worker-led nonprofit news startup in Washington, DC, and how the founders studied worker-led organizations and similar newsrooms — The 51st has set out to redefine local journalism in Washington, D.C., as one of the country's growing number of worker-led, nonprofit newsrooms.

Discussion: Gretchen A. Peck on LinkedIn, The 51st and r/Journalism

David Spector / New York Post:

Email: WaPo senior politics editor Dan Eggen says he was told Monday that he will “be removed” at the end of 2024, and “will leave it to others to explain why” — The Washington Post abruptly removed its politics editor without giving him a reason for the decision …

Discussion: @lachcartwright, @bamabonds, @farhip, @nicoleperlroth, @jamespmanley, @hangleyjr, @awinston, @froomkin, @lachcartwright, @awinston, @sjvn@mastodon.social, @scire.bsky.social and The Daily Caller

The New York Times Company:

Elisabeth Bumiller, the NYT's Washington bureau chief since 2015 and nearly a 30-year NYT veteran, is stepping down to return to writing and reporting — Elisabeth, incomparable Washington bureau chief since 2015, has decided to return to writing and reporting.

Discussion: @peterbakernyt, @ignatiuspost, @glennthrush, @moorehn, @peterbakernyt, @andrew_marshall, @peterbakernyt, @moorehn and @edmundlee.bsky.social