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9:50 PM ET, January 2, 2023

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Debbie Elliott / NPR:
Former staff reminisce about The Birmingham News, as Alabama's three largest newspapers plan to go digital-only after February 26, 2023 due to low circulation  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It's gotten harder to find a sidewalk newspaper box to buy a copy of The Birmingham News …
Rowan Moore Gerety / Esquire:
A profile of Channel 5 News frontman Andrew Callaghan, whose YouTube channel has become a reporting powerhouse with 2.2M subscribers and ~$100K/month on Patreon  —  They've gone from upstart YouTube channel to undeniably influential reporting powerhouse.  And they're just getting started.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
After a tough year, Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, and Comcast do not expect their standalone streaming services to break even until 2024 or 2025 at least  —  2022 was one of the hardest years ever for traditional television companies — and it's only expected to get worse as the ad market continues …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Disney, Netflix, and other media stocks suffered major losses in 2022 as streaming growth waned and ad sales slowed; some analysts expect more pain in H1 2023
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
France's César Awards won't invite those indicted or sentenced for acts of sexual or sexist violence, after facing protests about Roman Polanski in 2020  —  The French César Academy, the French equivalent to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences …
Luke DeCock / Raleigh News & Observer:
Learfield Communications indefinitely suspends North Carolina State radio announcer Gary Hahn for referencing “illegal aliens” during a football game broadcast  —  N.C. State radio broadcaster Gary Hahn has been suspended indefinitely after making a reference to “illegal aliens” …
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
US News & World Report plans to revamp some elements of its law school ranking, after deans at 12 of the top 14 schools publicly challenged the list's value  —  Publication to make changes in wake of public rebuke by top-ranked schools  —  U.S. News & World Report is revamping some elements …
Salem Solomon / Voice of America:
A profile of Lucy Kassa, a Magnitsky Award-winning journalist who covered the war in Ethiopia's Tigray but left after three armed men attacked her in her home  —  Lucy Kassa never expected to be a war correspondent.  Working for a Norwegian magazine, the freelance journalist wrote …
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Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian:
A look at the murder of broadcaster Percy Mabasa, known as Percy Lapid, and how his killing amplified calls to fix threats against the media in the Philippines
Matthew Carey / Deadline:
Q&A with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed director Laura Poitras on telling the story of artist Nan Goldin's campaign to hold the Sackler family accountable
ABC News:
Barbara Walters, the first female anchor in US TV evening news and a trailblazer whose career spanned over six decades from 1951 to 2016, dies at 93
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 Earlier Picks: 
The Intercept:
Hacked VGTRK emails show a July 2021 deal between Russia's and China's government ministries and outlets to cooperate on media narratives, including on Ukraine
Mike Barnes / The Hollywood Reporter:
Robert J. Dowling, who led The Hollywood Reporter from 1988 to 2005, dies at age 83 in his Santa Monica home after a short battle with cancer
Axios:
Morning Consult: 33% of US Gen Zers don't watch sports at all, compared to 24% of US adults; 28% of US Gen Zers watch sports on linear TV vs. 47% of US adults
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Bloomberg:
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region
 
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