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Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
How Disney's Moana, which wasn't a big hit at its 2016 launch, became a top streaming movie in every year from 2020 to 2024, per Nielsen, with 1B+ hours watched — We've now watched ‘Moana’ for more than 1 billion hours. How did it become the No. 1 movie in streaming history?
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The Hollywood Reporter, SlashFilm, New York Post, Ofer Mintz on LinkedIn, Billboard and Screen Rant
Josh Rubin / Toronto.com:
Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use — A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBC says the 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade drew a record 31.3M viewers, up 10% YoY, on NBC and Peacock; streaming hours on Peacock grew 26% YoY — The holiday also brings big audiences for NFL games and NBC's National Dog Show telecast. … NBC says 31.3 million viewers watched …
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Scott Jennings / @scottjenningsky:
Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings says he is joining the LA Times editorial board, as owner Patrick Soon-Shiong works to add “balance” to the board — It's true - I've accepted @DrPatSoonShiong invitation to join the editorial board of the @latimes. I've written columns for the paper over the last few years and was honored to do so under such a storied and important masthead. I love newspapers and believe in strong journalism
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Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline:
France says global streamers invested €974.6M in French film and TV shows from 2021 to 2023, after the country introduced investment obligations in 2021 — France has published its most comprehensive study to date detailing the impact of investment obligations introduced …
Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with journalism professor Stephen G. Bloom on working in Brazil as a young reporter, the history of expat English-language papers in the country, and more — A conversation with the author of The Brazil Chronicles — In 1979, at the age of twenty-eight, Stephen G. Bloom set …
New York Times:
Trump says he plans to nominate Kash Patel as FBI director; Patel vowed last year to “come after” journalists who “helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections” — President-elect Donald J. Trump turned to a firebrand loyalist to become director of the bureau …
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Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Hybe shares closed down 4% after K-pop girl group NewJeans said they are ending their contract with Hybe in protest against its dispute with the band's producer — The K-pop giant and BTS parent company has been battling for control of the lucrative girl group after splitting with the band's creator director.
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Reuters:
Italy's data protection watchdog warns publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with OpenAI, citing concern over potential breaches of EU rules — Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI …
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@claeshs.bsky.social and Hindustan Times
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China sentences journalist Dong Yuyu, an ex-Nieman Fellow whose work has appeared in Chinese editions of the NYT and FT, to seven years in prison for espionage — Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Nielsen: Fox News averaged 2M viewers per day from Nov. 6-22, up from 1.4M for the year to Nov. 4; MSNBC drew 526K viewers a day, down from 847K before Nov. 5 — Liberal audiences tune out while Robert Murdoch's channel attracts record numbers — Rupert Murdoch's Fox News …
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@dennislennox, @thedailybeast, @iankmsmith.bsky.social and MediaPost
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pardons Earlonne Woods, who co-founded the podcast Ear Hustle from inside San Quentin Prison and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist — California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) pardoned a Pulitzer Prize finalist who spent more than two decades imprisoned at San Quentin on Wednesday.
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@earhustlesq, San Francisco Chronicle and KTVU-TV
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