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5:05 PM ET, January 10, 2022

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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Republican leaders say journalists will no longer be allowed to work on the Iowa Senate floor, breaking a more than 140-year tradition, worrying press advocates  —  When Iowa's 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Axel Springer names Goli Sheikholeslami as CEO of Politico Media; Sheikholeslami previously served as the president and CEO of WNYC  —  It is the first major move by the German media giant since it purchased the Virginia-based political publication.  —  Axel Springer has tapped Goli Sheikholeslami …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery takes a minority stake in OpenAP, a joint venture between Fox, NBCU, and ViacomCBS to define video ad audiences  —  After making a successful bid to grow its heft in the media business with the looming acquisition of WarnerMedia, Discovery wants to extend its influence in the world of audience measurement and data.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ names Internews Europe CEO Jodie Ginsberg as its CEO, succeeding Joel Simon, who stepped down at the end of 2021 after leading the organization for 15 years  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today named Jodie Ginsberg as its new President.  Ginsberg will succeed Joel Simon …
Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Survey of 246 media leaders in 52 countries: 59% say revenue grew in 2021 and 47% worry subscription models may be excluding less affluent audiences  —  1. The business of journalism is looking up for some |  2. Audience strategies and publisher innovation |
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News names Jesse Watters as the permanent host of its 7PM opinion show after a year of rotating guest hosts  —  Fox News announced Monday that Jesse Watters will be the permanent host of the network's 7 p.m. ET hour, which will be re-named Jesse Watters Primetime beginning January 24.
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Joe Biden has held fewer news conferences and given fewer interviews than his five immediate predecessors after nearly one year in office  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In what's become a familiar scene, President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and others ignored an old allegation against an Andrew Cuomo accuser that she filed false claims of sexual assault against a fellow student  —  News organizations last year pursued many leads about the conduct of now-former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D) …
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Variety:
Variety appoints Ramin Setoodeh as co-editor-in-chief to work alongside Cynthia Littleton to lead editorial operations in the coming months  —  Littleton and Setoodeh will  co-run the newsroom and oversee editorial activities across all Variety platforms.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Edison Research: the 10 most popular US podcasts in 2020 were seven or more years old on average and none debuted in the last couple of years  —  Dawn Ostroff wants to find more hits.  The chief content officer of Spotify is upset that her company isn't producing enough new popular podcasts …
Caitlin Petre / Nieman Lab:
Research finds journalists consider some uses of metrics “clean”, like those used for a story's promotion, while using metrics to determine content is “dirty”  —  In late January 2012, A. J. Daulerio, then the editor in chief of Gawker.com, published a post on the site announcing an experiment.
 
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS News names Mark Lima vice president and Washington bureau chief, alongside several new appointments at the news division
Times Higher Education:
Times Higher Education acquires US-based Inside Higher Ed and says they will have a combined audience of more than 50M annually
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Symone Sanders, the former chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, to join MSNBC as an anchor and will host a new weekend program
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Jason Kilar says HBO Max “broke through” in 2021 and WarnerMedia will spend $18B+ on content in 2022; Disney and Netflix are expected to spend $33B+ and $17B+
 Earlier Picks: 
Benjamin Lee / The Guardian:
The Power of the Dog and Succession were the big winners at an unusual Golden Globes ceremony, featuring no stars, audience, or winners to accept the prizes
Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:
How Ryan's World, launched in 2015 with a then three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content behemoth with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Politico Playbook issues a correction after misidentifying Sen. Schumer's wife as Justice Sotomayor, blaming an editor for not verifying a tipster's photo
Politico:
Ruth Shalit Barrett sues The Atlantic for $1M, claiming the magazine defamed her in an editor's note retracting her October 2020 article on niche sports
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
John Pinette, Meta's VP of Global Communications, leaves the company after overseeing its public relations teams since 2019