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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit  —  Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit  —  Disney announced a deal …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: layoffs affecting “many dozens of employees” are expected at The Washington Post this week; star reporter Josh Dawsey is leaving WaPo for a job at WSJ  —  The Washington Post is expected to lay off dozens of staffers this week, Status has learned.
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Ann Telnaes / Open Windows:
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist at WaPo since 2008, quits, saying WaPo killed her cartoon showing Bezos and other execs currying favor with Trump  —  Democracy can't function without a free press  —  I've worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist.
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
The Athletic's editorial staff urges NYT management to recognize them as part of the Times Guild, which would expand the union to nearly 1,700 members.  —  It's unclear whether the Times, which shuttered its own sports desk after buying the Athletic, will fight the journalists' effort to join the bargaining unit.
John Koblin / New York Times:
A profile of Dick Wolf, the Law & Order creator who is debuting his show On Call on Amazon Prime Video, as streamers gravitate towards his style of programming  —  Dick Wolf says “On Call,” his first show for Amazon Prime, is part of a strategy to make his company “a player for the years to come.”
Discussion: @jeffjarvis and The Streamable
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Amazon says Prime Video has exclusively licensed a Melania Trump documentary, directed by Brett Ratner in his first film after facing #MeToo allegations in 2017  —  The studio has confirmed that its Prime Video has exclusively licensed an upcoming documentary film on the former and incoming first lady that will be directed by Ratner.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Ten predictions about the future of movies, TV, music, and more, including zero original movies in the top 10 next year and Spotify's video strategy succeeding  —  The movie business isn't back.  Mergers won't save cable.  Spotify and YouTube are poised to have very big years.
Discussion: The Ankler
Tara Deschamps / The Canadian Press:
Google makes a $100M payment to the Canadian Journalism Collective in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act  —  Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to distribute the funds.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Puck hires Leigh Ann Caldwell, the co-author of WaPo's Early 202 newsletter, as chief Washington correspondent, and plans a live events franchise in DC with her  —  - Last month, the company hired veteran Hollywood journalist Kim Masters, who had been The Hollywood Reporter's star investigative reporter for over a decade.
Discussion: @sarafischer
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025  —  Alphabet Inc.'s consumer team will give TV sets running its Google TV operating system an AI upgrade by adding Gemini to its Google Assistant voice-control system.
Variety:
A complete list of the 2025 winners at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association  —  “The Brutalist,” a historical epic that examines the post-war immigrant experience, and “Emilia Pérez,” a musical about a drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Some local US newspapers now allow people to request removal of names or deletion of old stories to protect the privacy of subjects involved in minor crimes  —  A wave of local publications are considering requests to wipe or edit old articles to give their subjects a fresh start
 
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn't say how it calculate MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable
Discussion: MediaPost and Cord Cutters News
NPR:
Q&A about “newsfluencers”, or news influencers, and journalism with TikTok creator V Spehar and Summer Harlow of Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
Financial Times:
China Film Administration: China's 2024 box office sales fell ~23% YoY to $5.8B, as a lack of blockbusters and an ailing economy saw consumers turn to streaming
Jacob L. Nelson / Columbia Journalism Review:
How journalists for the American Jewish press are covering the growing polarization in the Jewish community since the October 7 attack, and its challenges
Ruth Comerford / BBC:
President Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Anna Wintour, who has been serving as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988
Sarah Honosky / The Asheville Citizen Times:
Asheville Blade and two of its reporters file a federal lawsuit against Asheville over the journalists' arrests in December 2021 as police cleared demonstrators
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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North America's ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US
Discussion: Business Insider
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
An unredacted lawsuit from Utah's AG claims TikTok has long known that TikTok Live promoted sexual content streams to minors and facilitated money laundering
BBC:
The BBC says Gavin & Stacey: The Finale becomes the UK's most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since 2002 with 19.3M viewers
 

 
From Techmeme:

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia unveils RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090 and a $999 RTX 5080 coming on January 30 and a $749 RTX 5070 Ti and a $549 RTX 5070 in February

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market will reach $38B in 20 years

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision
 
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