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6:00 PM ET, January 28, 2025

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Jim Acosta says he is leaving the network after nearly 20 years; sources: Acosta is stepping down after CNN wanted to move his show to the 12am ET slot  —  The network wanted to move Mr. Acosta to the midnight time slot, a backwater in cable television news.
Paul Krugman / The Contrarian:
Paul Krugman says he felt a push toward blandness at The NYT in 2024, toward avoiding saying anything that might rile up some people, particularly on the right  —  I left to stay true to my byline  —  As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announces dedicated “new media” seating and restoration of credentials for 440 people “wrongly revoked” under Biden  —  In her first press briefing, Leavitt started with a question from an Axios journalist and made several criticisms of the media.
Reuters:
OpenAI seeks to block India's biggest media organizations from joining a copyright lawsuit that is set to shape the legal framework for AI in the country  —  Microsoft-backed OpenAI sought to block on Tuesday India's biggest media organisations, including those of billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani …
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023, taking its total to nearly $60B since its 2006 founding  —  Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Bookshop.org starts selling e-books from Bookshop or independent stores via its website and app, starting with 1M+ titles, and plans to add self-published books  —  Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
Bloomberg:
Sources: the UK is considering options to make BBC funding more sustainable, including making households that only use streaming services pay the license fee  —  - Government in talks to make BBC funding more sustainable  — Options also include taxing streaming apps, tiering payments
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Sky News plans to overhaul its programming and newsroom around paid content, in a strategy dubbed Sky News 2030, citing “largely stagnant” revenue  —  UK broadcaster is launching new premium model to combat steep decline of linear TV  —  Sky News has unveiled plans …
Editor and Publisher:
The MacArthur Foundation announces $6M+ in grants for 15 independent newsrooms and organizations focused on climate journalism in the United States  —  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced more than $6 million in grants to support the growing field of climate journalism in the United States.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The CBS Evening News debuted a new format on January 27, with a focus on fewer but more in-depth stories, reporters in the field, and nods to 60 Minutes  —  CBS is once again testing out new ingredients for one of its oldest, most recognizable programs, “The CBS Evening News.”
Leah Sottile / OPB:
A look at Hoodview News, a monthly local newspaper in Clackamas County, Oregon, that reflects the views of its owner, who used to work for an anti-LGBTQ+ group  —  Mike Wiley made his name as communications director for the Oregon Citizens Alliance — an anti-LGBTQ+ group.  Now his views drive a local newspaper.
 
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Sources: Peter Spiegel, the Financial Times' US managing editor, is in talks with the Washington Post for a senior job overseeing its national coverage
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
A look at Good Daily, an AI-generated newsletter network run by one person, aggregating local news across 47 US states without disclosing its use of AI
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Pulitzer Board seeks to pause Trump's 2022 defamation case against it, using his own argument that state courts shouldn't exert control over a sitting president
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Paul MacInnes / The Guardian:
WBD plans to merge Eurosport channels into TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, ending Eurosport's 35-year legacy and casting doubts on future free-to-air coverage
Ethan Shanfeld / Variety:
Nielsen: Bluey was 2024's most-streamed program with 55.62B viewing minutes on Disney+; Prime Video's Fallout was the most-streamed new original drama series
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple releases iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3, disabling AI summaries for news apps after complaints from news outlets that they were inaccurate
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
PBS and Amazon say 150+ local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will stream ad free on Prime Video, available to all users regardless of Prime subscription
 

 
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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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