Mediagazer: The Television Academy sets Emmys rules to allow inquiries about AI use in submissions, and renames Outstanding Television Movie category to Outstanding Movie (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)

César López Linares / LatAm Journalism Review:

How independent Venezuelan outlets, operating from exile and in alliance with reporters who remain in the country, managed to cover Maduro's ouster — It was around 2:00 a.m. on Jan. 3 when reports of explosions and low-flying aircraft in the city of Caracas began circulating on social media.

Discussion: Luz Mely Reyes on LinkedIn, @pressfreedom, @latamjournalism and Committee to Protect …

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:

PBS says it is ending PBS News Weekend, due to federal budget cuts; anchor John Yang says he'll be leaving PBS but many members of the show's team will remain — “Due to federal budget cuts, we've had to make the difficult decision to rework our staffing and programming,” anchor Amna Nawaz shares

Discussion: Breitbart, @barbararybolt.bsky.social, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, mikemcguff.com and PBS NewsHour

Bloomberg:

Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users — Few major companies have tried to pull off a pivot to AI as swiftly as Kuaishou Technology. — Long known as a laggard …

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:

The Television Academy sets Emmys rules to allow inquiries about AI use in submissions, and renames Outstanding Television Movie category to Outstanding Movie — The TV Academy also made rule changes for short-form programs and a few other categories.

Discussion: Gold Derby, Variety, Television Academy, The A.V. Club, Billboard, The Wrap and Deadline

Jennifer Swann / Wired:

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles — Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces.

Discussion: @granitegeeknh.bsky.social, @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social, @craignewmark.bsky.social, @wired.com and Doc Searls Weblog

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Sources: Paramount is seeking a strategic partner to invest in MTV as it aims to refocus MTV on music; Nielsen: MTV averaged <200K viewers in primetime in 2025 — Paramount Skydance Corp. is looking to revive MTV — and it wants the music industry's help.

Discussion: The Hollywood Reporter, Cord Cutters News, @stevekovach.bsky.social, Bradfield Biggers on LinkedIn, Lucas Shaw on LinkedIn, The Wrap, The Ankler, @cnschedules.bsky.social and Barrett Media

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials — Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …

Discussion: Reclaim The Net, Al Jazeera, WebProNews, @eastdakota, @elonmusk, @eastdakota, WebProNews, SportBusiness, PPC Land, Times of India, @daphnek.bsky.social, Politico, AccessWdun, Neowin, Advanced Television and TorrentFreak, more at Techmeme »

Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted — On tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden.

Discussion: Mike O'Brien on LinkedIn, Manasa Chappeti on LinkedIn, WinBuzzer, @segyges.bsky.social, arXiv.org, @damonberes.com, @dbrody.bsky.social, The Decoder and The Register, more at Techmeme »

The Hollywood Reporter:

X sues the National Music Publishers' Association and its members, claiming they conspired to force X into group licensing deals at inflated rates — X alleges antitrust violations over music publishers allegedly refusing to negotiate individual licenses with the company.

Discussion: Variety, The A.V. Club, Digital Music News, Reuters, New York Times, Billboard, @nitishpahwa.com, The Verge and Global Competition Review

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

The San Francisco Standard hires Elizabeth Ralph to oversee its Opinion section; Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and Politico managing editor — Elizabeth Ralph is joining the San Francisco Standard newsroom leadership team to oversee the Opinion section.

Titus Wu / Bloomberg Government:

California's Department of Finance director says Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't plan to commit more funding in 2026 to a Google partnership to help local newsrooms — California Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't plan to commit funding this year to a partnership with Google to help local newsrooms …

Danielle Riendeau / Game Developer:

Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity — The new publication will focus on gender inclusivity and building community. — Former Polygon editors Maddy Myers and Zoe Hannah …

Discussion: Kotaku and Mothership