In a letter, the UK's News Media Association warns Apple that imposing a "web eraser" tool to block ads would threaten journalism's financial sustainability (Financial Times)

Mediagazer: In a letter, the UK's News Media Association warns Apple that imposing a “web eraser” tool to block ads would threaten journalism's financial sustainability (Financial Times)

Top News:

Puck:

Sources: Netflix is nearing a deal to stream two NFL games on December 25— It looks like Netflix will wind up carrying the two NFL games scheduled for December 25, per a bevy of sources. It's a first-of-its-kind deal, and almost certainly not the last.
Discussion:

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Netflix Reportedly Eyeing NFL Christmas Day Games

Mary Ann Halford /
Mary Ann Halford on LinkedIn: The National Football League (NFL) and Netflix may be teaming up for an epic Christmas present in 2024! According to John Ourand of Puck, this could be a game-changer for both parties. …

Peter Kafka /
@pkafka: Netflix could be streaming NFL games this Christmas, says @Ourand_Puck. Would have seemed unbelievable a few years ago, and very plausible now. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...

Ahmad Austin Jr /
Mediaite: Netflix Emerging As ‘Likely Winner’ to Land Exclusive Rights to NFL's Christmas Games Next Season: Report

Ryan Glasspiegel /
New York Post: Netflix the ‘likely winner’ in the NFL's Christmas sweepstakes

Peter Kafka /
Business Insider: Netflix said it didn't want to be in sports. Now it could be streaming two NFL games on Christmas.

Wayne Friedman /
MediaPost: Netflix Reportedly Closing In On Two Christmas Day NFL Games

David Satin /
The Streamable: Netflix Reportedly in Pursuit of Christmas Day NFL Contest in Latest Bid to Secure Live Sports

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Netflix may score two Christmas Day NFL games

Reice Shipley /
Awful Announcing: Netflix could reportedly host 2 NFL Christmas Day games

New York Times:

Talk radio station WABC suspends Rudy Giuliani and cancels his daily show, saying he broke rules by trying to discuss discredited claims about 2020's election— The station's owner, John Catsimatidis, a Republican billionaire, said he suspended the former mayor for persisting in talking …

Discussion:

Azi Paybarah /
Washington Post: Giuliani fired from top NYC radio station over 2020 election falsehoods

Carl Campanile /
New York Post: Rudy Giuliani's election rant, other behavior ‘makes it hard not to terminate him,’ WABC radio boss says

Matthew Keys /
@matthewkeyslive: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has lost his WABC-AM radio show after violating an internal policy about airing election-related misinformation. https://thedesk.net/...

Clyde Haberman /
@clydehaberman: WABC radio show has canceled Giuliani's show because he ignored warnings to stop questioning the 2020 election's legitimacy. He called this a violation of his free speech. That's a laugh, given he was the most repressive NYC mayor in my lifetime. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Jennifer Bowers Bahney /
Mediaite: Giuliani Goes On Unhinged Rant About ‘Atomic Destruction’ of Biden After WABC Cancels His Radio Show

Martin Pengelly /
The Guardian: Rudy Giuliani suspended by New York radio station over 2020 election lies

Jacob Shamsian /
@jayshams: This was one of Rudy Giuliani's main — and only — sources of income, per his bankruptcy filings.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: “We're not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

Holland Cooke /
Holland Cooke on LinkedIn: We're not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election," Mr. Catsimatidis said in a brief phone interview. “ We warned him once. …

Tara Suter /
The Hill: Giuliani radio show canceled over 2020 election claims: ‘He left me no option’

George Conway /
@gtconway3@threads.net: “Rudolph W. Giuliani was suspended by WABC radio on Friday and his daily talk show was canceled after he violated station policy by trying to discuss discredited claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election on air. ” …

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: WABC Radio cancels Rudy Giuliani's show over election-related misinformation

Wiley Miller /
@Wileymiller@mastodon.social: #WompWomp — My question is, how did Giuliani have a show on WABC in the first place? — https://www.nytimes.com/...

Nikki McCann Ramirez /
Rolling Stone: Rudy Guliani's Radio Show Cancelled Over His Election Conspiracies

Georgetown University:

22-year-old Gabe Fleisher, who's been writing the Wake Up To Politics newsletter since 2011, plans to expand his business after his imminent college graduation— At the 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner, the night's headliner, comedian Roy Wood Jr., brought Gabe Fleisher (C'24) as a special guest.

Discussion:
Media Voices, @andria.bsky.social, @tomlobianco, @wakeup2politics, @mctothstl, @chriscillizza and @lpdonovan

Discussion:

Andria /
@andria.bsky.social: This is a graduation story y'all want to read. — I don't know his politics! I don't know what faction Georgetown will suck him in to. — I would like to read more about the role of his first subscriber though: his mom. [embedded post] @tomlobianco: @ChrisCillizza 100 this — I've seen @WakeUp2Politics at a bunch of events over the years, he hustles and it shows in his reporting. Congrats, Gabe!

Gabe Fleisher /
@wakeup2politics: Thanks to @Georgetown for featuring my work ahead of graduation next week. It's been a great four years, and I'm excited to share soon what's coming next. https://www.georgetown.edu/... [image]

Gabe Fleisher /
@wakeup2politics: Balancing classes and a daily newsletter wasn't always easy, but I wouldn't trade the experiences of the last four years for anything. Thanks to all my professors — and sorry if I ever had to miss your class 😳 https://www.georgetown.edu/...

Mark Toth /
@mctothstl: I watched Gabe grow up as we once lived in the same neighborhood and he & my son attended the same school. His journey & success are remarkable. While I only report on national security & intentionally stay away from politics, I do encourage you to follow @WakeUp2Politics.

Chris Cillizza /
@chriscillizza: Gabe is amazing. I get his daily newsletter. You should too! https://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/

Liam Donovan /
@lpdonovan: This is awesome

Financial Times:

In a letter, the UK's News Media Association warns Apple that imposing a “web eraser” tool to block ads would threaten journalism's financial sustainability— UK press says proposed ‘web eraser’ tool in next iOS update threatens journalism's financial sustainability

Discussion:
@popsarah and @parismarx@mastodon.online

Discussion:

Sarah Zupko Kondeusz /
@popsarah: This sort of thing is threatening @PopMatters' very existence. We've already seen a huge loss of revenue since last year at this time. AI depends on publishers' content for their knowledge base and now AI will be deployed by Apple to kill our revenue. https://www.ft.com/...

Paris Marx /
@parismarx@mastodon.online: I feel conflicted about this because I know journalism is in a rough spot, but I also hate the online ads so much. Usually I'd say this would be a nudge to force them to change course, but give the media's in such dire straits, I'm not so sure this time. — https://www.ft.com/... …

Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representatives to propose a new performance-based compensation regime, as Amazon and Netflix work on similar plans— Apple builds a bonus system around sign-ups, viewer loyalty and production costs. — Good afternoon from 30,000 feet.

Discussion:

Luca Shaw /
@lucas_shaw@threads.net: Apple, Netflix and Amazon are all looking to change the way they pay Hollywood talent. Unreported details on Apple's plan — and why this is happening now — in this week's newsletter. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life@threads.net: During the strikes a I noticed that the actors were making more money than the past decade due to the streaming wars. Even as they were complaining about residuals. I wondered where would even higher pay come from when most streamers are unprofitable? https://www.actorsequity.org/ ...

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life@threads.net: During the actor's strike last year, I talked about how the demands were disconnected from the business reality that streaming was a ZIRP. The actors won raises and now Apple, Amazon & Netflix are working to change contracts to pay stars based on if their shows are hits or not. …

Semafor:

The publisher of Hunterbrook Media failed to disclose it owns a stake in a rival to a company that was recently the subject of a critical Hunterbrook article— The Scoop — The publisher and co-founder of Hunterbrook Media, the startup newsroom whose affiliate places stock market bets …

Nieman Lab:

Editors from four independent student newspapers discuss how they have approached covering US campus protests under immense pressure and a national spotlight— “We don't come in when there's something crazy happening and then leave when it's over. This is just what we do all the time.

Discussion:

Rick Green /
@editorrag: I'm so impressed by this generation of student journalists who are making a difference in their communities + on campuses on stories — big + small. #LocalJournalismMatters, especially on consequential breaking news. CC: @acpress + J school advisers everywhere

Hannah Thacker /
@hannahpthacker: As pro-Palestinian protests sweep college campuses across the country, most on-the-ground reporting has come from the most local of local news: college newspapers. My latest for @njhotline (s/o to @gwhatchet, @dailybruin, @WKCRFM) 🔓free to read! https://njour.nl/... @spj_tweets: “Student journalists stick around — and unlike national media, they are part of the same community as the people protesting, the people who disagree with the protests, and everyone in between...” https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Zeynep Tufekci /
@zeynep: What I am saying is that you should read solid reporting from local and student journalists about the campus protests.

Zeynep Tufekci /
@zeynep: Yes. A good deal of the reporting on campus protests outside of local and STUDENT press is various fantasies or other national issues projected onto a local a situation mostly via videos they watched on Twitter, with occasional superficial accounts from drive-by whining.

Sophie Culpepper /
@s_peppered: “We don't come in when there's something crazy happening and then leave when it's over. This is just what we do all the time.” How student journos have reported relentless breaking news abt campus protests with empathy, navigated anonymity, + more: https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Levi Vonk /
@vonklevi: Really hard to overstate how important local press has been in holding police & UVA admin accountable. Having multiple journalists dedicated to around-the-clock fact finding is crucial to push against UVA's otherwise whitewashed, corporate narrative that blames the students. @niemanlab: In the past few weeks, thousands of student journalists have gone above and beyond — in many cases during finals, leadership transitions, and outside of normal production schedules — to cover the historic protests that have exploded on college campuses. https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Hannah Thacker /
National Journal: Locally Sourced — College newspapers are proving the value of local news

Sophie Culpepper /
@s_peppered: Thank you to @sonel_cutler + @elicurwin of @HuntNewsNU, @IrelandBlouin_ of @thedailytexan, @zachblackburn23 of @gwhatchet, and Anjali Patel of @dailytrojan for taking the time to talk about your work — blown away by your grace under pressure + excellent reporting

Sanya Mansoor /
TIME: What America's Student Photojournalists Saw at the Campus Protests

Gretchen Peck /
Editor and Publisher: When war abroad comes to campus: Student newspapers meet the moment with on-the-ground coverage of protests

Piper French /
The New York Review of Books: UCLA: Whose Violence?

The Hollywood Reporter:

Ahead of YouTube's Brandcast, three top creators talk about producing polished content to be viewed on TVs and how YouTube connects them with audiences at scale— As YouTube closes in on one year atop the Nielsen Gauge charts, some of its top creators weigh in on why the platform has become bigger than Netflix on TV sets.

Discussion:
@mythical: This was an incredible discussion about how far digital creators have come, and the quality of shows available on @YouTube. Thank you @THR & @alexweprin for hosting such a thoughtful conversation, we're proud to be a part of it!

Michelle Khare /
@michellekhare: Incredibly honored to be interviewed for @THR on how @YouTube creators are making longform content that rivals traditional television! So proud of our team. 📺 [image]

Michelle Khare /
@michellekhare: This is just the beginning of what we've got planned for this year💥

Alex Weprin /
@alexweprin: Is YouTube UGC, or is it TV? The lines have been blurred, @Mythical stars Rhett & Link tell me. “We're not making user generated content. We're making independent television.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...

Lauren Verrusio /
Lauren Verrusio on LinkedIn: I am so incredibly proud of our team, our partnership with our YouTube creators, and our work to showcase how YouTube and our creators are defining a new era of entertainment. …

Jacob Moncrief /
Jacob Moncrief on LinkedIn: Such a great article from The Hollywood Reporter today from Alex Weprin featuring Mythical. As YouTube hits one year atop the Nielsen Gauge charts …

Alex Weprin /
@alexweprin: YouTube star @MichelleKhare spends a year developing each episode of her series “Challenge Accepted.” When she tried to recreate Harry Houdini's deadliest trick, she spent weeks training with freedivers and magicians. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...

Matt Navarra /
@mattnavarra@threads.net: YouTube's Secret Weapon to Win the TV Streaming Wars: Its Top Creators As YouTube hits one year atop the Nielsen Gauge charts, some of its top creators weigh in on why the platform has become bigger than Netflix on TV sets. YouTube is marking one year as the most-watched streaming platform on Nielsen's Gauge chart, which tracks what consumers are watching on TV. …

Wall Street Journal:

How Acquired, a podcast that offers case studies of successful companies in monthly four-hour episodes, became a favorite among C-suite and VP-level executives— How did Acquired become the business world's favorite show? — It's a wonky podcast about business history and strategy with four-hour episodes that drop once a month.

Discussion:
Jeff Krimmel on LinkedIn, @rachaelrad, @lennymoses, @mathangcito, @energyfalcone, @dannygroner, @danielpearson, @calbucci, @greymunford, @statesdj, @jakesaper, @gilbert, Isaac Blake on LinkedIn, Hanna Cannell on LinkedIn, @ainemacdermot.bsky.social, Marco Salcedo on LinkedIn, Ben Cohen on LinkedIn and @acquiredfm

Discussion:

Jeff Krimmel /
Jeff Krimmel on LinkedIn: I'm very much a podcast guy. — And none has captured my attention as consistently as Acquired. — The WSJ piece does a great job of introducing Acquired. …

Rachael Horwitz /
@rachaelrad: “How something started with nothing in obscurity and turned into the most important or valuable institution in our modern world,” Gilbert says. “That's a hell of a hook, and that's our hook basically every time.” https://www.wsj.com/...

Lenny Moses /
@lennymoses: “I think corporations are the biggest and best nonfiction stories of our day. There's no Roman Empire anymore.” https://www.wsj.com/...

Mathang Seshagiri /
@mathangcito: By turning case studies into cinematic spectacles, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, have built the business world's favourite podcast—Acquired. https://www.wsj.com/... [image]

Tom Falcone /
@energyfalcone: Here's an article about the excellent “Aquired” podcast. Each episode describes why a company was successful. We listen to it with our kids on long drives and the stories are so engaging the kids ask to turn it on again the next time we're in the car. https://www.wsj.com/...

Danny Groner /
@dannygroner: “Gilbert and Rosenthal have become known for their comprehensive analysis, clear storytelling and overall craftsmanship. They focus on quality. They embrace scarcity. They want to do less, better.” Been saying for years that we all must do less, better. https://www.wsj.com/...

Daniel Pearson /
@danielpearson: Overnight success, 10 years in @AcquiredFM 🎉 https://www.wsj.com/...

Marcelo Calbucci /
@calbucci: Whoa! Amazing coverage of the @AcquiredFM in the @WSJ! A bit of a miss to not quote me as the #1 fan, first listener (maybe?), and the person who has listened to the most episodes (all but one). 😅 https://www.wsj.com/...

Grey Munford /
@greymunford: Can confirm that many at Spotify are obsessed with @AcquiredFM https://www.wsj.com/...

David States MD PhD /
@statesdj: Secret is out. Hope it doesn't ruin a great show. Smartest People in the Room Are All Listening to the Same Podcast https://www.wsj.com/...

Jake Saper /
@jakesaper: “Business porn” is the most colorful phrase I've heard to describe David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert's amazing podcast @AcquiredFM. I've been an avid listener (and occasional lucky guest) since the beginning. LOVE. https://www.wsj.com/...

Ben Gilbert /
@gilbert: Totally surreal to wake up and see your 9-year passion project on the front of the @WSJ. Thanks @bzcohen, for really capturing the essence of @AcquiredFM. https://www.wsj.com/...

Isaac Blake /
Isaac Blake on LinkedIn: To celebrate the cat being officially let out of the bag on the best business/investing podcast out there, I wanted to share some of my favorite older episodes that might still fly under the radar: …

Hanna Cannell /
Hanna Cannell on LinkedIn: I know there's some tough competition, but I really do believe I'm Acquired's #1 fan. — It's funny, “Acquired isn't just another podcast …

Áine /
@ainemacdermot.bsky.social: Navel gazing: favorite hobby of narcissists, both wealthy & poor. — Hoarding is in the DSM as a mental illness. Money isn't excluded. [embedded post]

Marco Salcedo /
Marco Salcedo on LinkedIn: Acquired is my go to podcast for business education (and passing the time). As the hosts describe it though, each episode is more of a conversational audiobook and can run up to 3 hours. …

Ben Cohen /
Ben Cohen on LinkedIn: How did Acquired become the business world's favorite podcast? — It's a show about company history and strategy with four-hour episodes that drop once a month. …

The Streamable:

Fox says Tubi had ~80M MAUs in Q3, up from 67M a year ago, 22% YoY revenue growth, and a 36% YoY increase in total view time, 90% of which comes from on-demand— Tubi finished Fox's fiscal third quarter just behind Disney+ in terms of total TV viewing time, and may continue to climb.

Discussion:
@yudhishthu, The Desk, Cord Cutters News, StreamTV Insider, Seeking Alpha and Media Play News

Discussion:

Rich Yudhishthu /
@yudhishthu: Viewership at Tubi is up, which is good...but only 10% of audience watching the passive channel streams. Perhaps a good lead gen experience, but shows complete unappeal of linear TV https://thestreamable.com/...

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Fox CEO: Most Tubi streamers watching on-demand content

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: Tubi Sees Strong Growth, Hitting 80 Million Average Monthly Users & 22% Jump in Revenue

The Desk:

C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding— Forty years ago, you might be hard-pressed to find anyone in the country who regularly watched the political affairs network called C-SPAN …

Discussion:
@matthewkeyslive

Discussion:

Matthew Keys /
@matthewkeyslive: @cspanSusan ... Dish Network and Comcast support C-SPAN, but don't offer the channel on Sling TV or Now TV. Verizon supports it, but pushes Fios customers to YouTube TV. Maybe it's C-SPAN that is standing in the way of its own progress? https://thedesk.net/...

RELATED:

The Hill:
Google's YouTube TV, which now has over 8M subscribers, should add C-SPAN to its channel lineup as a public service, as more consumers ditch cable subscriptions

Discussion:
@cspansusan and Cord Cutters News

Financial Times:

Studies show a negativity bias in US coverage of the economy and gas prices, particularly cable news, as the tone of economic news moves away from reality— A new study adds to the evidence that competition for eyeballs may be warping our sense of the world

Discussion:

John Harwood /
@johnjharwood: “The research tells us several things. “First, there is far more news coverage of gas prices when they are high than low. If it exceeds, it leads, you might say. “Second, the price at which this negative coverage takes off has been falling steadily lower in real terms — making...

John Harwood /
@johnjharwood: “as recessions have become far fewer and further between over the last century, news articles written about the economy have been more downbeat. “Another study found the tone of economic news has further decoupled from the fundamentals in recent years.” https://www.ft.com/...

Michelle Manafy /
@michellemanafy: The muddy relationship between audience-optimized publishing and public understanding has long been apparent in the case of crime. But there is a growing body of evidence that the same troubling phenomenon may now be playing out with public perceptions of the economy. [image]

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: “Charts showing American incomes and wealth rising, inequality falling and unemployment remaining low just can't compete with easily debunked but very clickable claims that most families are living pay cheque to pay cheque.” https://www.ft.com/...

Jennifer Schulze /
@newsjennifer: THIS is an important read about the obsession with bad news click bait & the horrible impact it's having. Just this graphic alone on coverage of gas prices ought to make journalists across the country hang their heads in shame. https://www.ft.com/... [image]

Michelle Manafy /
@michellemanafy@journa.host: Data from the US Federal Reserve shows the same tell-tale pattern we have grown used to with crime: people assess their own financial situation to be relatively healthy, and this changes very little from year to year, but their assessment of the national economy has cratered, opening up a huge gulf. … @zeitung@mastodon.social: “First, there is far more news coverage of prices when they are high than low ... Second, the price at which this negative coverage takes off has been falling steadily lower in real terms — making negative headlines more and more likely even for the same level of affordability ... third …

Reuters Institute:

Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels, citing government notices— As the country votes in this year's crucial election, news channels are being banned or demonetised in a move criticised by press freedom groups

Discussion:
@risj_oxford and Media Matters for America

Discussion:
@risj_oxford: NEW on our website 🇮🇳 Indian journalists turned to YouTube to dodge Modi's censorship. Amid this year's crucial election, some of those news channels are being banned or demonetised in a move criticised by press freedom groups ✍️ By @Raksha_Kumar https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...