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4:00 PM ET, December 10, 2024

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Free Press hires WSJ editor-turned-banker Dennis Berman as its first publisher and president and media product veteran Daniel Hallac as chief growth officer  —  - She launched The Free Press as independent publishing was becoming more sustainable.
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz joins OANN to host a weeknight political talk show and co-host a weekly podcast with Dan Ball, starting in January 2025  —  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was President-elect Donald Trump's first pick to be attorney general before removing his name from consideration …
Josh Parry / BBC:
Interviews with 30+ current and former PinkNews employees detail multiple incidents of alleged sexual misconduct by founders Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James  —  The couple who run PinkNews, the world's largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: The Washington Post Acting Executive Editor Matt Murray blocked a story on the departure of Matea Gold, a contender to be WaPo's new executive editor  —  As the Washington Post newsroom awaits the appointment of a new top editor, its acting news chief intervened to block an article …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube is testing a new multiplayer feature for two games, under its collection of lightweight, free “Playables” games on desktop and mobile devices  —  YouTube is experimenting with multiplayer mini-games under its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed “Playables.”
Elias Leight / Billboard:
Source: Sony Music removes its catalog from African streaming service Boomplay over late royalty payments; several labels and distributors report similar issues  —  Multiple rightsholders tell Billboard they have failed to receive recent royalty payments from the streaming service, which has a sizable user base in Africa.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The News Media Alliance sent the DOJ and FTC an open letter last week urging a probe into a Google Search update that upended affiliate businesses of news pubs  —  The new policy has left penalized publishers in a kafkaesque limbo, unsure of how to fix their unspecified violations
Max Tani / Semafor:
The incoming GOP-led Congress and White House, with help from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE, could redouble efforts to defund NPR and other public media  —  THE SCOOP  —  Last week, Republican Sen. John Kennedy introduced the subtly named “No Propaganda Act.”
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM names Wayne Thorsen as COO and unveils a strategic plan focused on costs, including $200M in annualized savings, and on its car subscription business  —  The company will also move its marketing and other resources away from “high-cost, high-churn audiences in streaming.”
 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram officially rolls out “trial reels”, which give creators a way to test out videos by publishing them only to people who don't follow them
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
Over 350 musicians sign Fight for the Future's open letter demanding that major labels drop a lawsuit over Internet Archive's efforts to preserve 78-rpm records
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
In a letter to subscribers, Wired UK says it is dropping from a bimonthly to a quarterly print schedule, as it unites its global newsroom into a single team
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A Florida judge allows a contractor's defamation case against CNN over a November 2021 report on war profiteers during the US' Afghanistan withdrawal to proceed
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Bloomberg:
Google debuts Gemini 2.0 and plans to test the model in search and AI Overviews, saying it enables “agents that can think, remember, plan, and even take action”

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Apple rolls out iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, with Apple Intelligence features including ChatGPT integration, Image Playground, and Genmoji

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A global outage has hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET; Meta says it's “99% of the way” to resolving the issue
 
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