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2:45 AM ET, December 2, 2024

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Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
How Disney's Moana, which wasn't a big hit at its 2016 launch, became a top streaming movie in every year from 2020 to 2024, per Nielsen, with 1B+ hours watched  —  We've now watched ‘Moana’ for more than 1 billion hours.  How did it become the No. 1 movie in streaming history?
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Docs: LeBron James' Springhill lost $28M on sales of $104M in 2023; the production company aims to be profitable this year, following its merger with Fulwell 73  —  Film and TV businesses started by celebrities have raised lots of money.  What's missing are profits  —  I changed my mind about the newsletter.
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Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with journalism professor Stephen G. Bloom on working in Brazil as a young reporter, the history of expat English-language papers in the country, and more  —  A conversation with the author of The Brazil Chronicles  —  In 1979, at the age of twenty-eight, Stephen G. Bloom set …
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBC says the 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade drew a record 31.3M viewers, up 10% YoY, on NBC and Peacock; streaming hours on Peacock grew 26% YoY  —  The holiday also brings big audiences for NFL games and NBC's National Dog Show telecast. … NBC says 31.3 million viewers watched …
Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline:
France says global streamers invested €974.6M in French film and TV shows from 2021 to 2023, after the country introduced investment obligations in 2021  —  France has published its most comprehensive study to date detailing the impact of investment obligations introduced …
Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Meta says it will require advertisers globally to get verified before running financial service ads targeting Australian users, starting in early February 2025  —  Exclusive: Businesses to require financial services license number to post Facebook ads, while individuals will need government-issued ID
Scott Jennings / @scottjenningsky:
Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings says he is joining the LA Times editorial board, as owner Patrick Soon-Shiong works to add “balance” to the board  —  It's true - I've accepted @DrPatSoonShiong invitation to join the editorial board of the @latimes. I've written columns for the paper over the last few years and was honored to do so under such a storied and important masthead. I love newspapers and believe in strong journalism
Reuters:
Italy's data protection watchdog warns publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with OpenAI, citing concern over potential breaches of EU rules  —  Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI …
Discussion: @claeshs.bsky.social
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Hybe shares closed down 4% after K-pop girl group NewJeans said they are ending their contract with Hybe in protest against its dispute with the band's producer  —  The K-pop giant and BTS parent company has been battling for control of the lucrative girl group after splitting with the band's creator director.
Josh Rubin / Toronto.com:
Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use  —  A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …
 
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK Culture Secretary says the BBC's license fee will rise with inflation until 2027; from April 2025, it will rise £5 to £174.50, bringing in another ~£75M
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China sentences journalist Dong Yuyu, an ex-Nieman Fellow whose work has appeared in Chinese editions of the NYT and FT, to seven years in prison for espionage