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5:30 PM ET, January 6, 2025

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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 …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Fubo is expected to become immediately cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo stock jumped 253.85% on Monday
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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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.
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.
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google unveils a Gemini-powered News Brief feature on Google TV that summarizes news stories from the internet and YouTube video headlines from trusted channels
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast plans to launch Universal Ads in Q1 2025 to simplify ad buying and win over SMB advertisers from Big Tech, and signs deals with WBD and others  —  Comcast plans to launch a new advertising platform that will make it easier for smaller businesses to buy ad time — and, the company hopes …
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.
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 …
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.”
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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.
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Free London business newspaper City AM confirms it is ending its Monday print edition and will invest instead in more video and audio products
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
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
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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
Rodney Ho / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Public Broadcasting introduces a new logo and unveils a five-year strategic plan, including growing its donor base by 25% from the current 87,000
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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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's HR team, aiming to “minimize disruption” internally

Associated Press:
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils the $500+ Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, alongside a Windows version for $600+, both available starting in May
 
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