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3:50 PM ET, December 16, 2024

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos deactivated his account on X, where he had 2.3M+ followers, over the weekend after ABC News settled Trump's lawsuit  —  ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos deactivated his account on X, formerly Twitter, where he had more than 2.3 million followers.
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Associated Press:
ABC News apologizes and will give $15M to Trump's presidential library to settle a lawsuit over George Stephanopoulos' comments about Trump and E. Jean Carroll  —  ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump's presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George …
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David Enrich / New York Times:
How Trump and his allies are using actual or threatened lawsuits to crack down on unfavorable media coverage, even before Trump moves back into the White House  —  The small flurry of threatened defamation suits is the latest sign that the incoming Trump administration appears poised …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Some media lawyers say ABC had a good chance of beating Trump at trial, but risked severe reputational damage when internal emails are scrutinized in discovery
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
An interview with Patrick Soon-Shiong, who has spent ~$1B on the LA Times, on his non-endorsement in the presidential race, adding a “bias meter”, and more  —  Patrick Soon-Shiong had become accustomed to making the news.  —  He was the doctor and medical technology innovator …
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Major news outlets like Fox, MSNBC, and CBS are leveraging their reporters' personal TikTok accounts rather than the companies' own to reach younger audiences  —  Some big brands have been slow to join the platform but now are experimenting with ways to reach a new audience
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the law that could ban TikTok on Jan. 19; Trump said today he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok, when asked about the law  —  The law will go into effect on Jan. 19 if the justices don't grant the company's request.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to all logged in users, not just subscribers, and says ChatGPT Search can be set as their browser's default search engine  —  The product, called ChatGPT Search, will be available to any user who is logged in with an account for the chatbot across …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Two unidentified people shot and killed Daily Khabrain reporter Malik Zafar Iqbal Naich in Pakistan on December 12, the 11th Pakistani journalist killed in 2024  —  Two unidentified persons shot and killed Malik Zafar Iqbal Naich, a reporter for Daily Khabrain newspaper, on Thursday …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
CNN says it is investigating after Syrian fact-checking group Verify-Sy said a man CNN reporter Clarissa Ward freed from a Syrian prison was an Assad officer  —  CNN says it is investigating the identity of a Syrian man who may have given the network a “false identity” during a segment depicting …
 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI model that can create 2+ minute long clips in resolutions up to 4K, behind a waitlist as part of VideoFX
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Khloé Kardashian will launch her video podcast Khloé in Wonder Land on Jan. 8 on X, as part of its Originals on X initiative, with a 24-hour exclusivity window
Max Tani / Semafor:
Kamala Harris' deputy campaign manager and digital chief says the campaign tried to book Harris on sports shows and podcasts but was rejected by the top names
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic's merger shows how the industry is preparing for an AI-driven upheaval, which is squeezing out creative talent
Mark Caro / Local News Initiative:
A deep look at the emergence of local news startups in Massachusetts, as some “ghost newspapers” owned by Gannett still publish but without original reporting
Mel Ottenberg / Interview Magazine:
Q&A with New York Magazine EIC David Haskell on Olivia Nuzzi, optimism in the media business, print's power, how journalists traffic in secrets, and more
 

 
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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, which would value the company at almost $1.77T

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal:
Alphabet upsized its equity raise to $84.75B, including $35B in underwritten public offerings, up from a planned $30B; a source says it contacted ~75 investors

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory
 
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