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2:20 PM ET, January 1, 2026

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Katie Campione / Deadline:
Nielsen: The most-watched Christmas NFL game was Netflix's Lions-Vikings, with 27.5M live plus same-day US viewers; Prime Video's Chiefs vs. Broncos drew 21.06M  —  The most-watched game of the holiday proved to be the mid-afternoon Lions-Vikings match up on Netflix, which secured 27.5M live + same …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality  —  Adam Mosseri says creators should prioritize “unflattering” images to prove they are real.  —  It's no secret that AI-generated …
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
Zootopia 2 becomes Disney Animation's highest grossing movie ever, with $1.46B at the global box office, beating Frozen 2, which made $1.45B in 2019  —  “Zootopia 2” is going down in the Disney record books.  —  The animated sequel is now Walt Disney Animation's highest-grossing movie …
Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, music, and works of art published in 1930, including William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and sound recordings from 1925 enter the US public domain  —  On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.
David H. Montgomery / YouGov's The Surveyor:
Survey of 2,203 US adults: 59% say they read at least one book in 2025; readers who prefer e-books report more reading than those who prefer print or audiobooks  —  Featuring data on how many books Americans read in 2025.  —  It's the end of the year, which means it's time for me to count up my reading stats and see how I did.
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New York Times:
The US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA  —  Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming.  Here's how book sales looked in 2025.
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
UK's Ofcom is reviewing multiple complaints against GB News over not challenging Trump's assertions, including that climate change is “a hoax”, in an interview  —  US president's assertions climate change is ‘a hoax’ and London has police no-go areas left unchallenged, say critics
Brent Lang / Variety:
George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says Bari Weiss “is dismantling CBS News as we speak”  —  When George Clooney was preparing to make his Broadway debut appearing as CBS news correspondent Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night …
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Pat Saperstein / Variety:
Following Clooney's criticism, Bari Weiss invites him to “visit The CBS Broadcast Center” where she is “spending the holidays” to “relaunch the Evening News”
Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
ProPublica reporters on three recent stories were ignored by federal or state workers when seeking comment, and then were accused of stalking or intimidation  —  This summer, my colleagues were reporting out a story about the Department of Education's “final mission,” its effort …
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:
The French rightwing party UDR launches a parliamentary inquiry into the “neutrality, workings and financing” of state TV and radio amid accusations of bias  —  Investigation established by UDR party to look at ‘neutrality, workings and financing’ of state TV and radio
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of “New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash” off the air for about 12 minutes on December 31  —  ‘Matlock’ episode briefly runs until the live broadcast from Music City was restored  —  CBS faced a technical snafu …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans to reject Paramount's revised takeover bid at a board meeting next week, viewing the $30-a-share cash bid as still inferior to Netflix's bid  —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. plans to once again reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance Corp. after the rival media company amended …
 
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Kay Powell / Atlanta Magazine:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which had about 75K digital-only subscribers and 40K print subscribers, ends its print edition after 157 years
Jeff Horwitz / Reuters:
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others
Bloomberg:
Nielsen streaming data: none of 2025's 10 most-watched shows were new, Tubi and Roku are almost twice the size of HBO Max and Peacock, and more
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Summer Ballentine / The Detroit News:
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies
 

 
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed

Financial Times:
A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M+ total downloads as of July 2025

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI ramped up efforts to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its AI-powered personal device, which is expected to be largely audio-based
 
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