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10:10 AM ET, January 1, 2025

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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Justin Baldoni sues The New York Times for $250M over its Blake Lively story, which accused him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and more  —  On June 2, 2023, Blake Lively began a text exchange with her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni that blamed …
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TMZ.com:
Blake Lively files a lawsuit in a New York federal court against Justin Baldoni and others, claiming mental pain and anguish, emotional distress, and lost wages
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Atlantic plans to hire ~12 journalists, including from WaPo, to bolster its political coverage under Trump; source: it added ~100K subscribers since March  —  The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.
Hanna Park / CNN:
Aaron Brown, the CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and his role in shaping CNN's evening news format, died Sunday at 76  —  Aaron Brown, the renowned CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the September 11 attacks and his pivotal role …
Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and music published in 1929, including William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and sound recordings from 1924 enter the US public domain  —  On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.
Inside Radio:
Salem agrees to sell its seven contemporary Christian radio stations to Educational Media Foundation for $80M and repays all $159.4M of its long-term debt  —  Moving to shore up its balance sheet, Salem Media Group has agreed to sell all its remaining contemporary Christian radio stations …
Bloomberg:
Broadcast networks are seeking higher fees from their local affiliates, often citing the rising cost of sports rights; CBS and Fox have been the most aggressive  —  - FCC chair nominee accuses Disney of ‘siphoning money away’  — Networks spend heavily on sports, want bigger share of fees
Discussion: The Desk
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howl CEO Li Haslett Chen steps down from WBD board, opening the way for a high-profile addition to the board in 2025 amid plans to spin off TV assets  —  The tech exec's exit could open the way for a high-profile addition to the studio's board of directors in 2025 amid plans to possibly spin off its legacy TV assets.
Discussion: Deadline, The Wrap, Variety and Reuters
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company that works for Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and others, recently surpassed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google  —  Online piracy is a constant headache for copyright holders; one that's particularly hard to beat.
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
A look at Germany's new film funding law, which was hastily passed on December 27, that temporarily raises the cash back production grant by 5% to 30%  —  The German parliament on Friday, in its last session before being dissolved, pushed through a watered down version of the country's long-gestating …
Max Tani / Semafor:
News media personalities including Andrew Ross Sorkin, David Remnick, Rachel Maddow, Mehdi Hasan, and Bari Weiss reflect on the things they got wrong in 2024  —  The News  —  The news media is wrong all the time — though not exactly as its loudest critics claim.
Callum Parke / London Evening Standard:
UK High Court documents show hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is seeking at least £79M from the Financial Times in libel damages over sexual assault allegations  —  Mr Odey is suing the publication over allegations that he had sexually assaulted multiple women, which he denies
Discussion: The Times and The Independent
 
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Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that imitated legitimate news outlets
Bloomberg:
Sources: Mobvista explores selling mobile ad platform Mintegral after getting interest from buyers like Bain Capital; Mobvista stock in HK surged ~190% in 2024
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix was the winner among media stocks in 2024, up 92%; Fox was up 64%, Disney was up 22%, WBD was down 10%, Roku was down 16%, and Paramount was down 28%
Discussion: Deadline and @tvgrimreaper
Ivan Oransky / Retraction Watch:
All but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Human Evolution resign, to protest changes like eliminating “support for a copy editor”
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
A federal appeals court upholds a $5M judgment against Trump after a jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll
William Christou / The Guardian:
A look at Syria's state news agency Sana, which led Assad's propaganda effort for the past 13 years, as its journalists hope for freedom after the regime's fall