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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis says opinion section changes are “not about siding with any political party” but about “being crystal clear about what we stand for” — David Shipley, The Post's opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Marty Baron condemns changes to WaPo's opinion section, says he is “disgusted” as Bezos is “betraying” WaPo's “longstanding principles” for commercial interests — Former executive editor Marty Baron told the Daily Beast there was “no doubt in my mind” …
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Jeff Bezos / @jeffbezos:
Jeff Bezos says the WaPo's opinion pages going forward will largely focus on personal liberties and free markets, and opinion editor David Shipley is leaving
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
The White House kicked out Reuters and a HuffPost reporter from Trump's Wednesday press pool; with AP still blocked, just one wire service remained in the pool — Breaking with decades of precedent, the Trump White House is insisting on the ability to choose which reporters cover the president.
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Reversing decades of precedent, the WHCA announces it will no longer coordinate shared coverage of President Trump amid an escalating dispute over press access — The move breaks from decades of cooperation between the White House and the journalists who cover the president.
Reuters News Agency:
Reuters, AP, and Bloomberg News editors, all permanent members of the White House pool, say limiting wire access to the president harms people and markets
Brian Stelter / CNN:
On day one of choosing its own “press pool”, the White House replaced HuffPost with Axios; two staunchly pro-Trump outlets, Newsmax and The Blaze, were added
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New York Post, @gilmored85.bsky.social, @brianstelter, HuffPost, @tancred1098.bsky.social, @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, @paulmainwood.bsky.social, @paulmainwood.bsky.social, @alherix.bsky.social, @unlox.bsky.social, @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, The Wrap, New Republic and Columbia Journalism Review
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: MrBeast is in early talks to raise $200M to fund a holding company that would own his packaged goods and media businesses, targeting a ~$5B valuation — - YouTube star aims to raise a couple hundred million dollars — He lost ‘tens of millions’ of dollars on Amazon reality show
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Hindustan Times
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Internal memo: Paramount is making changes to its DEI policies to conform to efforts by the Trump administration to eliminate diversity programs — The company has a merger pending before the Federal Communications Commission, whose chief has criticized programs focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Variety, @benmullin, @doriandavis, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Yahoo Finance, RetailWire, TechCrunch, Fortune and Observer, more at Techmeme »
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky COO Nick Herm criticizes Amazon for failing to tackle sports broadcast piracy, costing “hundreds of millions”, and to stop illegal Fire Stick TV devices — Broadcaster accuses company of failing to do enough to tackle piracy, often involving its Fire Stick TV devices
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix says its customers watched 94B+ hours in H2 2024, up 5% YoY; Squid Game, despite premiering on December 26, dominated the period with nearly 87M views — Netflix subscribers streamed more content than ever in the back half of 2024 — and the second season of Korean hit drama “Squid Game” was the biggest TV show on the service.
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Advanced Television, The Hollywood Reporter, Media Play News and Deadline
Reuters:
A Vietnam court sentences former journalist Truong Huy San to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts; San wrote “The Winning Side” about post-war Vietnam — A court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a former journalist to 30 months in prison after finding him guilty of …
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Committee to Protect …, Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Notus, the nonprofit outlet created by the Allbritton Journalism Institute, launches the Washington Bureau Initiative to provide DC coverage to local newsrooms — - Reporters covering Washington on behalf of local outlets bring a different perspective to D.C. coverage that is meant to serve local constituents.
Advanced Television:
Gracenote: sports programming on top five streamers globally, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, Paramount+, and Netflix, grew by 72%+ in the recent quarter — Gracenote, the content data business unit of Nielsen, has reported that five of the top SVoD services globally - Prime Video …
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The Media Leader and NewscastStudio
Kirk Carapezza / GBH:
Student newspapers that increasingly rely on financial support from the institutions they cover face struggles for editorial independence, as ad sales drop — • 4:18 Student journalists struggle for independence when cash is hard to find — Outside a modest basement room at the University …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK right-wing political news outlet Guido Fawkes settles a defamation case by Ecotricity founder Dale Vince; founder Paul Staines says costs would be “ruinous” — Guido Fawkes has settled a defamation case brought by Ecotricity founder Dale Vince after a preliminary ruling went against the political blog.
Discussion:
@dalevince and The Guardian
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
A look at budget pressures on WBD's movie studio unit: sources say WBD CEO David Zaslav has been pushing for more financial accountability and consistency — The group's co-leaders keep handing tentpole budgets to original projects from critical darlings. Will any of them make money?
Discussion:
The InSneider and SlashFilm
Max Tani / Semafor:
YouTube's VP for News Partnerships Tim Katz says the platform has continued to boom as a news platform, particularly for news commentators like MeidasTouch — The News — YouTube is touting a mind-boggling statistic to demonstrate its increasing dominance in podcasting.
Discussion:
YouTube Official Blog, Digiday, @maxwelltani, Pedro Pina on LinkedIn and Kimberly Diaz on LinkedIn
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