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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Jennifer Jacobs, the Bloomberg News reporter fired for allegedly breaking Russian prisoner swap story embargo, suggests she didn't decide to publish prematurely — Bloomberg News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs shot back at the news outlet on Monday after she was fired …
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Email: Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait says the outlet has taken disciplinary action against those involved in breaking the Russia prisoner swap embargo
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
A US federal judge rules Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and Google's exclusive agreements enabled it to raise prices on that product — A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Red Ventures sells CNET, an early pioneer of online tech coverage, to Ziff Davis, which owns Mashable, PC Mag, and other brands, a source says for $100M+ — Ziff Davis is acquiring CNET for more than $100 million. Its chief executive thinks more acquisitions are on the horizon.
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Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing:
FAST channels NEWSnet and SportsNewsHighlights, owned by Manoj Bhargava's Bridge Media, abruptly shuts down, resulting in the layoffs of 80 employees — Manoj Bhargava at a NewsNet desk. (NewsNet.) — The strangeness around former Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group and its majority owner …
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
Internal memo: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei says the company is laying off ~50 people as part of “changes to adapt fast to a rapidly changing media landscape” — NEW: Axios is laying off 50 people across the company. CEO @JimVandeHei just sent out this note — which says the layoffs are because of “changes in the media business” [image]
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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD looks to avoid breaking up the company by offloading smaller assets, such as selling Polish broadcaster TVN or a stake in WBD's gaming business — Executives fear ‘years of legal challenges’ if they split its TV and movie studio businesses — Warner Bros Discovery's senior management …
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@meowzawowza_ and @annaknicolaou
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corp reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $3.1B, affiliate fee revenue up 5% YoY to $1.9B, ad revenue flat YoY at $1B, and $320M net income, vs. $369M in Q4 2023 — The company said that revenue rose slightly in the quarter thanks to its carriage agreements, but that the election and Super Bowl are setting it up for a big year.
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Variety, Next TV and Fox Corporation
Lili Bayer / The Guardian:
Critics say Hungary's new sovereignty protection office, set up to monitor foreign influence, has been targeting independent journalism and watchdog groups — The country's new sovereignty protection office was set up to quieten anti-government voices, critics say
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@worstall, @tobyvogel and @roberthm75
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so — Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
CBS News names Adrienne Roark as president of editorial and newsgathering and Jennifer Mitchell as president of stations and digital, as part of a restructuring — Roark will be president of editorial and newsgathering, and Mitchell will be president of stations and digital
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Richard A. Webster / Nieman Lab:
A Louisiana law that went into effect last week makes it a misdemeanor for reporters or anyone to be within 25 feet of a police officer after being ordered back — “You can't even get an officer's badge number at 25 feet. So there's no way to hold anyone accountable."
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@richardawebster and Boing Boing
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
After redesigning its website in June 2024, the AP says monthly page views rose 17%, unique visitors rose 16%, video views rose 89%, digital ad revenue rose 20% — A site redesign helped yield a 20% increase in ad revenue — Last June, The Associated Press began a concerted effort to expand …
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