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Sources: French studio Mediawan is in advanced talks to merge with Peter Chernin's North Road Company; the deal values North Road between $700M and $1B (Bloomberg)
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January 17, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Sources: French studio Mediawan is in advanced talks to merge with Peter Chernin's North Road Company; the deal values North Road between $700M and $1B (Bloomberg)
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CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
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January 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
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Hachette and Cengage file to join an existing copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in which authors say Google used their books to train its Gemini LLM (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
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January 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Hachette and Cengage file to join an existing copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in which authors say Google used their books to train its Gemini LLM (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
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NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150+ AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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January 16, 2026 at 9:02 PM
NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150+ AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (Business Insider)
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January 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM
TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (Business Insider)
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Filing: President Trump acquired corporate bonds issued by Netflix and WBD, valued as high as $1M each, in the days after Netflix announced its deal to buy WBD (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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January 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Filing: President Trump acquired corporate bonds issued by Netflix and WBD, valued as high as $1M each, in the days after Netflix announced its deal to buy WBD (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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A look at long-running BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, which reaches 2M+ listeners a week, as Misha Glenny replaces original host Melvyn Bragg, who has retired (Nicholas Quah/Vulture)
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January 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
A look at long-running BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, which reaches 2M+ listeners a week, as Misha Glenny replaces original host Melvyn Bragg, who has retired (Nicholas Quah/Vulture)
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OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: it expects to make "low billions" from ads in 2026 (Financial Times)
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January 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: it expects to make "low billions" from ads in 2026 (Financial Times)
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Condé Nast owner Advance Publications and Vox Media sue Google over its ad market monopolization, following Penske, The Atlantic, and McClatchy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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January 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Condé Nast owner Advance Publications and Vox Media sue Google over its ad market monopolization, following Penske, The Atlantic, and McClatchy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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Goalhanger now has 250K+ paying subscribers across podcasts like The Rest Is History, who pay an average of £60/year, or an annual subscriber income of ~£15M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
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January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Goalhanger now has 250K+ paying subscribers across podcasts like The Rest Is History, who pay an average of £60/year, or an annual subscriber income of ~£15M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
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Craig Newmark shifts away from journalism as a primary focus of his philanthropy, saying "a lot of my efforts haven't been as effective as I'd like them to be" (Ben Gose/Chronicle of Philanthropy)
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January 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Craig Newmark shifts away from journalism as a primary focus of his philanthropy, saying "a lot of my efforts haven't been as effective as I'd like them to be" (Ben Gose/Chronicle of Philanthropy)
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Q&A with Kathleen Kennedy about the highs and lows of her 14 years at Lucasfilm, going back to producing, the future of Star Wars, exploring AI tools, and more (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
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January 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Q&A with Kathleen Kennedy about the highs and lows of her 14 years at Lucasfilm, going back to producing, the future of Star Wars, exploring AI tools, and more (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
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Former Guardian and Prospect EIC Alan Rusbridger has been appointed editor-at-large for The New World, which rebranded from The New European in mid-2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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January 16, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Former Guardian and Prospect EIC Alan Rusbridger has been appointed editor-at-large for The New World, which rebranded from The New European in mid-2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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Ted Sarandos says that Netflix will maintain 45-day theater windows for movies after its acquisition of WBD closes, adding that he wants to "win" the box office (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
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January 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Ted Sarandos says that Netflix will maintain 45-day theater windows for movies after its acquisition of WBD closes, adding that he wants to "win" the box office (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
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YouTube adds over 100 full episodes from previous seasons of Sesame Street and also hosts an expanded library of Sesame Street content on Shorts (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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January 16, 2026 at 8:36 AM
YouTube adds over 100 full episodes from previous seasons of Sesame Street and also hosts an expanded library of Sesame Street content on Shorts (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Sources: the BBC plans to announce a major deal to make bespoke shows for YouTube for the first time, which will later be aired on the BBC iPlayer and Sounds (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
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January 16, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Sources: the BBC plans to announce a major deal to make bespoke shows for YouTube for the first time, which will later be aired on the BBC iPlayer and Sounds (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
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Australia's eSafety Commissioner reports social media platforms "removed access" to ~4.7M accounts under its ban for under-16s, which took effect in December (New York Times)
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January 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Australia's eSafety Commissioner reports social media platforms "removed access" to ~4.7M accounts under its ban for under-16s, which took effect in December (New York Times)
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FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
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January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
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Some CBS News staffers expressed deep skepticism about a story that used unnamed sources to report that the ICE officer who shot a woman had "internal bleeding" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
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January 16, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Some CBS News staffers expressed deep skepticism about a story that used unnamed sources to report that the ICE officer who shot a woman had "internal bleeding" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
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YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
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January 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
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Tokyo-based broadcaster TBS Holdings is acquiring a $150M stake in Legendary Entertainment to develop Japanese IP; source: the deal values Legendary at $4B+ (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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January 15, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Tokyo-based broadcaster TBS Holdings is acquiring a $150M stake in Legendary Entertainment to develop Japanese IP; source: the deal values Legendary at $4B+ (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president of Lucasfilm after nearly 14 years and will be succeeded by the studio's Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
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January 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president of Lucasfilm after nearly 14 years and will be succeeded by the studio's Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
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An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
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January 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM
An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
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The Pentagon says Stars and Stripes will move "away from woke distractions" and cease publishing AP "reprints"; its EIC says he'll work to save its independence (Washington Post)
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January 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
The Pentagon says Stars and Stripes will move "away from woke distractions" and cease publishing AP "reprints"; its EIC says he'll work to save its independence (Washington Post)
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