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11:20 AM ET, December 20, 2024

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Robert Booth / The Guardian:
The UK ICO criticizes Google as “irresponsible” after the company announced plans to let advertisers employ fingerprinting techniques from February 16, 2025  —  ICO says allowing advertisers to track digital ‘fingerprints’ will undermine consumers' control over information
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix secures exclusive US streaming rights to the 2027 and 2031 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup, plans to produce documentaries around the tournaments  —  The streaming giant will exclusively stream the 2027 an 2031 tournaments, with documentaries also planned.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India  —  A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down …
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Sources: CoinDesk owner Bullish fired three editors, including EIC Kevin Reynold, amid a row over Bullish forcing editors to take down an article on Justin Sun  —  Bullish, the owner of leading crypto publication CoinDesk, abruptly dismissed three top editors on Friday …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
A look at the merchandise, contests, and in-person experiences Netflix has rolled out in advance of the release of Squid Game Season 2 on December 26  —  It starts in the gift shop. … Players begin the journey in a room styled as a night market stocked with icons from the series …
Washington Post:
WaPo names Karen Pensiero as standards editor, a new masthead position reporting to Executive Editor Matt Murray; she earlier worked with Murray at The WSJ  —  The role is a newly formed masthead position that will report to the executive editor Matt Murray.  —  By WashPostPR
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A survey of 400+ Hollywood insiders: ~50% would sell a show to Netflix over its rivals, Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan is the most in-demand producer, and more  —  Hollywood insiders answer 20 burning questions about the entertainment business.  —  For the last 12 months, you've had to read more than 100,000 words of my writing.
Discussion: @trungtphan and @lucas_shaw
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail creative differences between the Broccoli family, which has creative control over the James Bond franchise, and Amazon, which owns the franchise  —  A clash between the Broccoli family, which has creative control over 007, and the e-commerce giant, which owns the franchise, has put Bond's future on pause
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The Baltimore Banner, launched in June 2022, expects 2024 revenue to rise 37% YoY to $13M+, with subscriber count growing 50%+ in 2024 to ~55,000  —  The 2.5-year-old non-profit generates nearly half of its business from paying readers  —  Nonprofit newsroom The Baltimore Banner will bring …
 
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John Robson, co-founder of kid-focused studio Moonbug, is stepping down; Moonbug bought CoComelon in 2020, and Candle Media acquired Moonbug in 2021
Joe Easton / Bloomberg:
Canal+ shares sink 15%+ as UBS says the stock is fairly valued after its London listing on December 16; CAN is down 32%+ since its listing
Discussion: Reuters
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Ankler hires Alison Brower as its executive editor; Brower was Los Angeles bureau chief at Business Insider before leaving in February
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Meta teases an AI editing tool powered by Movie Gen AI in Instagram that can change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos using a text prompt, coming in 2025
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Neil Cavuto is leaving Fox News after 28 years at the network; source: Fox offered him a new deal that he declined to accept and ultimately decided to leave
Graham Fraser / BBC:
Reporters Without Borders urges Apple to scrap Apple Intelligence's notification summaries after a BBC complaint said the feature created a misleading headline
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Semafor plans to launch an invite-only newsletter for CEOs, The CEO Signal, in January 2025, written by former FT US News Editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz:
As part of Sony's Kadokawa investment, the companies plan to adapt Kadokawa's IP into live-action films and TV dramas globally, co-produce anime works, and more
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them early next year

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Experts say Apple's spyware notifications for victims are a game changer for research; the notifications direct the victims to nonprofit security lab Access Now

Hugh Son / CNBC:
The CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, BoA, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since the launch of Zelle in 2017
 
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