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8:05 AM ET, January 7, 2024

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Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Pat McAfee, who signed a lucrative deal in 2023 for his YouTube show to air on ESPN, accuses top ESPN executive Norby Williamson of “sabotaging” his program  —  The former NFL punter accuses Norby Williamson of leaking inaccurate ratings information  —  Video
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
Universal had the largest share of 2023's global box office, after releasing 24 films that made $4.91B, dethroning Disney, which had the top spot since 2016  —  Box office jumped more than 8 percent to $1.35 billion but remained well below pre-COVID levels.  —  Thank you Barbenheimer.
Discussion: Deadline
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:   Comscore: UK and Ireland box office revenue rose 8.3% YoY to £1.06B in 2023, the first time it crossed £1B since 2019; box office from 2015-2019 was £1.3B+/year
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline:   Gower Street estimates the global box office reached $33.9B in 2023, up 30.5% on 2022 but 15% below the 2017-2019 average; China rose 83% YoY to ~$7.7B in 2023
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Taylor Swift's associates say they are dismayed by an NYT opinion piece that speculated on Swift's sexuality, calling it “invasive, untrue, and inappropriate”  —  A controversial New York Times opinion piece that openly speculated this week whether Taylor Swift is a closeted queer person …
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Top execs at Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Vox Media express caution and sometimes optimism about 2024 ad revenue  —  Media execs are setting their ad revenue goals for 2024 with an abundance of caution as they wait and see just how much of the …
Financial Times:
Source: the British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October cyberattack that rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services
Wall Street Journal:
A look at the ambitious bid to turn around the Golden Globes, as a source say CBS is paying a significantly lower licensing fee than the ~$60M NBC used to pay  —  The Golden Globes are back with new owners, new prizes and a new network.  Now they need viewers to tune back in.
IEEE Spectrum:
How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims  —  This is a guest post.  The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Joseph Lelyveld, The New York Times executive editor from 1994 to 2001 and Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 86 from complications of Parkinson's disease  —  As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships …
Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
Nielsen: NFL made up 93 of 2023's 100 most-watched TV broadcasts, up from 82 in 2022; SOTU and Macy's Parade were the only non-football broadcasts in the top 50  —  The actor's glum endorsement of the generic—he looked like a referee who'd been going through a bad divorce …
Washington Post:
Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft  —  A lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of violating the New York Times's copyright.  But the law is anything but clear.
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Sources: Axios names Holly Moore as Axios Local executive editor, replacing Jamie Stockwell; staff were told local ad revenue rose 40% in 2023  —  Scoop: Holly Moore — formerly of USA Today and currently head of local innovation Hub for Axios —named exec ed for local. Jamie Stockwell, current exec editor, leaving for a new gig. Staff told eight cities now have 100,000 (unpaid) subs. Local ad revenue was up 40% last year.
Discussion: @jmhaigh
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Sources: Jamie Stockwell, who had been Axios Local executive editor, will oversee Washington Post local coverage, replacing Mike Semel, who has been promoted
 
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Jules Roscoe / VICE:
After WHYY fired a reporter in 2023 for jokes he made as a stand-up comedian, an arbitrator ruled he must be reinstated but delete his jokes from social media
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The SEC rules that Disney must have a vote on a proposal for a transparency report on Disney's use of AI at its next shareholder meeting
Discussion: The Wrap and Reuters
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Puck names ex-Twitter executive Sarah Personette as its new CEO; source: the two-year-old publication has 40K paying subscribers and $10M+ in revenue in 2023
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix is weighing how to make money from video games, like via IAPs and ads; Apptopia: as of October 2023, <1% of subscribers played its games daily
 Earlier Picks: 
Press Gazette:
Analysis: in 2023, media outlets in the UK, the US, and Canada cut at least 7,900 jobs and only made 361 announcements for new positions
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Substack wants to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, akin to Cloudflare, but Substack can't claim to be simple infrastructure while recommending content
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: The Messenger made ~$3M in revenue in 2023 and told potential investors it had $1.8M in cash on hand at the end of December after losing ~$38M in 2023
Om Malik / On my Om:
The decline of Wired, once a magazine that inspired hope in technology's future, illustrates a broader loss of necessary optimism among tech writing communities
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in collaboration with Kylie Jenner

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present
 
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