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11:40 AM ET, December 17, 2024

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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Filing: Trump sues Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer for “brazen election interference” and fraud over the final poll showing Harris leading in Iowa  —  The Des Moines Register published pollster Ann Selzer's final poll showing Harris leading in Iowa by 3 points, despite Trump's eventual 13-point victory
Melissa Clarke / ABC:
Australia's ABC names former Nine CEO Hugh Marks as managing director, starting March 10, 2025; Marks oversaw the AU$4B merger of Nine and Fairfax Media in 2018  —  In short:  —  The ABC's next managing director will be former Nine Entertainment chief executive Hugh Marks.
Axios:
Sources: NYT's Cliff Levy and Meta's Anne Kornblut withdrew from consideration to become The Washington Post's executive editor after hearing its strategy  —  - One person involved in the search told us Lewis' pitch was foggy and uninspiring. … Other candidates include current interim executive editor Matt Murray.
Julian Fowler / BBC:
A UK court finds the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on two Belfast journalists to identify their sources  —  The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Metropolitan Police acted illegally by spying on two Belfast journalists' to identify their sources.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Memo: LAT opinion staff express concern over Soon-Shiong's new policy forcing editorials critical of Trump to be presented side-by-side with an opposing view  —  Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, has dismayed staffers as he curtails critical coverage of Donald Trump.
The Boston Globe:
The Everett Leader Herald, a weekly newspaper publishing for 139 years, will shut down and pay $1.1M to settle a defamation lawsuit with Everett Mayor  —  The Everett Leader Herald will shut down after 139 years as part of the settlement  —  Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria will receive $1.1 million …
CNN:
Syrian locals say a man filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime  —  A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud launches a cheaper paid plan for artists for $3.25/month or $39/year, with limitations on features like track uploads, distribution, and monetization  —  Music streaming platform SoundCloud announced Tuesday that it is introducing a new, cheaper paid plan for artists simply called Artist …
Discussion: Variety and Music Week
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ABC News will never live down its capitulation after paying $15M to help establish Trump's library and $1M in legal fees, and it should have used 1A protections  —  ABC News not only settled a defamation suit with Trump.  It paid out $15 million.  What?
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos deactivated his account on X, where he had 2.3M+ followers, over the weekend after ABC News settled Trump's lawsuit
Jack Kenmare / SPORTbible:
The European Super League, dropped in 2021, relaunches as the Unify League, promising free, ad-supported streaming of soccer matches via its own service  —  It would feature 96 clubs in total.  —  The European Super League has relaunched as ‘The Unify League’ and it sounds like they are ready …
Axios:
Sources: Refinery29 laid off staff, and its CEO Cory Haik has left, as it closes in on eight months under new ownership; Sundial has not named an interim CEO  —  Sundial Media Group has not named an interim CEO.  — The former Vice Media executive was named CEO when Sundial Media Group agreed …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival, attended by movie stars, filmmakers, and execs in search of cash, as the KSA tries to boost its local industry  —  Stars, producers and financiers are traveling to Saudi Arabia looking for cash.  The country wants foreigners to help nurture a local industry in exchange.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube is testing the ability for some US creators to reply to comments on their videos using voice notes in its iOS app  —  YouTube is experimenting with a new way to engage fans by giving creators the ability to post voice notes and reply to comments on their videos, the company announced on Monday.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100M+ DAUs, revealing its DAU figure for the first time, and 300M+ MAUs, up from 275M+ MAUs in November 2024
Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
A US judge sentences Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and lenders by lying about Ozy's finances
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the US law that could ban TikTok on January 19; when asked about the law, Trump says he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI model that can create 2+ minute long clips in resolutions up to 4K, behind a waitlist as part of VideoFX
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to logged-in users, not just subscribers, and says users can set ChatGPT Search as their browser's default search engine
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Khloé Kardashian plans to launch her video podcast Khloé in Wonder Land on January 8 on X, as part of X's Originals on X, with a 24-hour exclusivity window
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Wall Street Journal:
Databricks is raising $10B from a16z, Thrive, and others at a $62B valuation, among the largest VC raises in history; docs show Databricks has $2.6B in revenue

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M for a Facebook security breach that affected ~29M users globally, ~3M in the EU and EEA, in September 2018

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Framework releases a $39 modular component that adds two M.2 slots to the Laptop 16, letting users have 26TB+ of storage, and updates the Laptop 16's cooling
 
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