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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Good Hang with Amy Poehler won the inaugural Golden Globes podcast award, beating five other nominees, including Call Her Daddy, SmartLess and NPR's Up First — Amy Poehler won the inaugural Golden Globes podcast award for her talk show “Good Hang,” which features her freestyle riffs with fellow comedians, friends and celebs.
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.
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise — Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... For the second consecutive year, unit sales of print books …
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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
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product — Tech giant moves to gain an edge in race to monetise popular AI tools — Google is introducing new personalised advertising …
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.
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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 …
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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.
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.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the visual investigations of the Minneapolis ICE shooting by The NYT, WaPo, and Bellingcat, and how they helped people trying to make sense of events — When everyone has seen the same videos, what service do news sites provide? — Late Wednesday afternoon …
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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 …
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.
