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8:40 AM ET, January 6, 2023

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Pop-Up Magazine shuts down after hosting live storytelling shows since its 2009 launch, citing the pandemic and economic downturn and affecting 18+ employees  —  The live events publisher explored a sale or investment prior to closing  —  The live performance publisher Pop-Up Magazine …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Vince McMahon plans to return to WWE to pursue a sale of the business, after retiring as CEO and chairman in July 2022 amid sexual misconduct claims against him  —  Vince McMahon, the majority owner and former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., WWE 2.26%increase …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Twitter verified a Washington Post columnist's fake US Senator Ed Markey account, after Elon Musk said “all verified accounts will be manually authenticated”  —  Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue.  Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.
Camila DeChalus / Washington Post:
The US House allowed C-SPAN to let cameras roam the chamber until a speaker is elected, showing loud booing, animated conversations, sleeping kids, and more  —  Loud booing.  Animated conversations in the aisles of the House chamber.  Sleeping children.  Lawmakers scrolling on their phones.
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
Roku let Burrow, a channel dedicated to QAnon conspiracy theories, launch despite seemingly violating its content rules; Burrow got 300K+ installs in 20 days  —  Roku may be making money on the channel via ads, despite its rules against such content  —  Streaming platform Roku has allowed …
Discussion: CNET
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Universal Music Group sues Triller, alleging the short-form video app has not paid its invoices for the past nine months, violating their licensing agreement  —  Universal Music Group sued Triller on Thursday, alleging that the video-sharing app has failed to make payments for the last nine months …
Discussion: Music Ally
Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Twitter laid off ~40 ad optimization data scientists and engineers, as the company targets areas that leadership considers to be failing or unimportant  —  Twitter laid off about 40 data scientists and engineers working on advertising late Wednesday night in what amounted to at least …
Wall Street Journal:
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
The New York Times has yet to hire a media columnist, a year after Ben Smith left; sources: the NYT has talked to Sarah Ellison, Brian Stelter, and Dylan Byers  —  One of the highest perches in the industry has been vacant for a year, leaving journalists inside and outside the paper puzzled about management's lack of urgency.
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
iSpot.tv: in 2022, US TV ad impressions fell 3.5% YoY to 8T and TV ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to $45.36B; CBS had the greatest share of TV ad impressions at 14.55%  —  Total TV advertising impressions in 2022 from linear, streaming and local programming were down 3.5% versus the year before to 8.0 trillion, according to iSpot.tv.
Discussion: Next TV and TVNewsCheck
Dave Biscobing / ABC15:
After The Wall Street Journal asked for a review, Phoenix police investigate an officer handcuffing and detaining WSJ reporter Dion Rabouin in November 2022  —  PHOENIX — The Wall Street Journal is demanding the Phoenix Police Department conduct an internal review and take action …
Ronan Shields / Digiday:
The Trade Desk announces Galileo, a demand-side platform based on its Unified ID 2.0 tool, and says that more than 50 North American media owners are using UID2  —  CES is a gadgetry showcase but adland's digerati has also decamped to Las Vegas this week where The Trade Desk will trumpet its …
 
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A profile of New Lines, an online-only magazine with a remote staff of 25 focused on local reporting from around the world, now printing quarterly editions
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says the company has ended its 12-month restructuring phase after merging with WarnerMedia and 2023 is for “relaunching and building”
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google says Android TV OS, the underlying platform for Google TV and Android TV, now has 150M monthly active devices, up 36%+ YoY
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
TikTok plans to license IMDb data to let US and UK users tag movies and TV shows and access an in-app page with more information, like the cast and release date
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
After FTX collapsed, “citizen journalists” like @AutismCapital, Coffeezilla, and Doomberg beat out mainstream outlets by alleging wrongdoing and adding analysis
Financial Times:
The UK government confirms dropping its privatization plans for Channel 4, opting instead for reforms to preserve the broadcaster's financial sustainability
Agence France-Presse:
Iran warns France of an “effective and decisive response” after Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed insulting