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6:50 PM ET, January 22, 2025

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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Settlement: Murdoch's NGN apologizes to Prince Harry over “unlawful” phone hacking by The Sun and “extensive coverage and serious intrusion on his private life”  —  In the past few minutes, the BBC reported NGN apologizing for phone hacking, and the impact this had on Harry …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Prince Harry reaches a settlement with Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers over allegedly gathering unlawful information, an abrupt end to the London trial  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers offered Harry an “unequivocal apology,” admitting for the first time to “unlawful activities” …
Journal Sentinel:
WDJT-TV meteorologist Sam Kuffel has been dropped by her station after she criticized Elon Musk's gesture at the inauguration, on her personal Instagram account  —  Daniel Bice Mary SpicuzzaMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster has been dropped by her station …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: WBD's CNN plans to lay off hundreds on Thursday as it refocuses on its global digital audience; NBC News also plans cuts, affecting well under 50 jobs  —  Warner Bros. Discovery's CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees Thursday as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Chris Brown sues WBD and others for $500M over sexual assault claims in the documentary Chris Brown: A History of Violence, released on October 27, 2024  —  Chris Brown may like Donald Trump, but the ‘Weakest Link’ singer really doesn't like Warner Bros. Discovery.
Bloomberg:
An analysis of two years of episodes by nine prominent podcasters shows how they became mainstream sources for young men and rallied support for Trump's agenda  —  Podcasters including Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Logan Paul are mobilizing America's men to lean right.  An analysis of over 2,000 videos shows how.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Adobe makes an additional $5M commitment to support underrepresented film and TV creators and filmmakers, on top of its $6M pledge in 2024  —  Company also donating $1 million toward L.A. wildfire relief  —  Software giant Adobe is making an additional $5 million commitment …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr restores three of four complaints against TV stations that his predecessor had dismissed; all three align with Trump's gripes about media  —  Brendan Carr, newly installed as chairman of the FCC under the new Trump administration, is reviving a trio of complaints aimed at NBC …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube adds experimental features for Premium users, including higher audio bitrate of up to 256kbps for music videos and faster playback on mobile  —  YouTube said Wednesday that it is adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, faster playback speed option on mobile …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Antenna estimates Netflix gained 650K+ new US subscribers in the days surrounding the NFL games; the Paul-Tyson fight drove 1.43M US subscription sign-ups  —  Netflix's big bet on live events is paying off.  New data published by the analytics firm Antenna indicates that Netflix added 1.43 …
Advanced Television:
MediaRadar: advertisers spent $4.8B on TikTok in 2024, up 27% YoY, and top 10 advertisers spent $690M; Omdia earlier said TikTok made ~$8B in 2024 US ad revenue  —  Data from MediaRadar shows that advertisers spent $4.8 billion (€4.59bn) on TikTok during 2024, a 27 per cent YoY increase from 2023, when $3.8 billion was spent.
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Nielsen gains MRC accreditation for its Big Data + Panel measurement, which includes viewership data from 45M households across 75M+ set-top boxes and smart TVs
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annapurna Interactive hires Leanne Loombe, who previously oversaw Netflix's second- and third-party game development and publishing, as its head of games
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's ITV News appoints Channel 4 News executive Laura Wilshaw as editor, succeeding Andrew Dagnell, who will become director of news and current affairs
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Ankler launches Like & Subscribe, a trade publication on the creator economy, as a weekly Substack newsletter for $129/year with plans for podcasts and more
Jake Lahut / Columbia Journalism Review:
After years of the Biden press office keeping reporters away from the president, some White House reporters say they look forward to having more access to Trump
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Nielsen: Trump's inauguration drew an average of 24.59M viewers on 15 networks from 10:30am ET to 7pm ET, down from 33.76M in 2021 and 30.64M in 2017
 

 
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process

Bloomberg:
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed
 
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