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4:35 PM ET, December 2, 2024

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Ryan Grim / Drop Site News:
An investigation finds that OCCRP, which works with major newspapers on scoops like the Panama Papers, is primarily bankrolled by the US and its Western allies  —  Drew Sullivan is unknown to the broad public, but the head of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is one of the most influential journalists in the world.
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Yann Philippin / Mediapart:
Docs: German public broadcaster NDR shelved an investigation it started into OCCRP as part of a consortium due to pressure from OCCRP co-founder Drew Sullivan  —  After launching an investigation into the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), and after subsequently inviting Mediapart …
Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
Some reporters say they are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky, as Elon Musk turns X into an increasingly difficult place for journalists  —  Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
Financial Times:
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is weighing an ads model, but plans to be “thoughtful”; sources and LinkedIn analysis: OpenAI hired Meta and Google ad talent  —  ChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals  —  OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising …
John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount co-CEO Chris McCarthy aims to revitalize Showtime by using successful formulas like Yellowstone from Paramount+ and investing in high-profile projects  —  Before a new owner takes over, the TV brand once known for ‘Billions’ and ‘Homeland’ is working to come up with new marquee hits
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
How YouTuber Ms. Rachel, whose baby-focused educational videos get 100M views, has attracted huge interest from toy companies and publishers before the holidays  —  About a year and a half ago, Laura Henderson, a toy company executive and 38-year-old mother in Toronto, was at the tail end of maternity leave with her second child.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
The Verge plans to launch a $7/month or $50/year sitewide paywall on Tuesday; some content and the publication's social feed-like homepage will remain free  —  Vox Media, parent company of New York Magazine, is preparing to announce several changes aimed at boosting revenue and rewarding its most faithful subscribers.
Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Moana 2 took $221M in the US during the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, including $135.3M from Friday to Sunday, breaking multiple Box Office records  —  The Walt Disney Animation sequel sailed into history with a Thanksgiving haul of $221 million, the biggest five-day opening of all time, among numerous other milestones.
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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
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Twitch creator Kai Cenat completed a “subathon”, streaming 24 hours a day for 30 days, breaking Twitch subscriber records with ~727,700 subscribers in November  —  Creator Kai Cenat broke the record for the highest subscriber count on Amazon's Twitch during a non-stop live stream for the entire month of November.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Documents: in 2023, LeBron James' Springhill lost $28M on $104M in sales; the production company aims to be profitable in 2024, after its merger with Fulwell 73  —  Film and TV businesses started by celebrities have raised lots of money.  What's missing are profits  —  I changed my mind about the newsletter.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom: the BBC had a 37% share of local news page views in H1 2024 in the UK, up from 26% in 2022; commercial publishers' share in England fell from 80% to 67%  —  An increase in local news being produced online by the BBC is adding to the “headwinds” facing commercial publishers, regulator Ofcom has found.
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
Pulse Films co-founder Thomas Benski unveils Lumina, a “talent and IP-led media group” with a “mid-eight figure” backing from BFK, Dorfman Media, and SVS  —  The Pulse Films co-founder unveiled his new venture, which claims “mid-eight figure” backing from the likes …
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Ido David Cohen / Haaretz:
A site linked to Israel's ruling Likud party publishes a list ranking presenters from public radio Kan Reshet Bet according to their support for the government  —  Melukadim News publishes a list ranking Kan Reshet Bet presenters by their government support, as the government advances a bill to privatize the broadcaster.
 
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Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Meta says it will require advertisers globally to get verified before running financial service ads targeting Australian users, starting in early February 2025
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
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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”
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
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
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Intel says CEO Pat Gelsinger retired and left its board on December 1, and names CFO David Zinsner and Client Computing Group GM Michelle Holthaus as co-CEOs

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AWS launches Data Transfer Terminal to let customers upload their data to AWS Cloud by plugging in their storage devices at a set of physical locations

Wall Street Journal:
The US adds new HBM chip transfer restrictions for China, the fourth attempt in three years to curb China, and adds 140 Chinese companies to its trade blacklist
 
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