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Nielsen: The most-watched Christmas NFL game was Netflix's Lions-Vikings, with 27.5M live plus same-day US viewers; Prime Video's Chiefs vs. Broncos drew 21.06M (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/christmas-2025-n…

Netflix’s Lions-Vikings Leads NFL Christmas Day Audiences; Prime Video Trails With Chiefs-Broncos But Sets ‘Thursday Night Football’ Record
Netflix had the largest audience for this year's Christmas Day NFL matchups, and Prime Video still set a record despite trailing

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18 (Summer Ballentine/The Detroit News)
https://www.detro…

End of newspaper JOA heralds new era of competition in Detroit
Dave Hunke: 'Good journalism, in the end, I swear it will win. I just wish somebody could find a way to unlock the economics.

George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says CBS News EIC Bari Weiss "is dismantling CBS News as we speak" (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/george-clooney-bari-weiss-des…

George Clooney Says Bari Weiss Is Destroying CBS News
George Clooney says Bari Weiss is "dismantling" CBS News and more broadcast news networks need to oppose Donald Trump.

Bari Weiss says she wants CBS News to redraw "the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate", such as elevating voices like Alan Dershowitz (@dropsitenews)
https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/1993154653941362892

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch

Yahoo launches AI answer engine, Scout
Scout is on the Yahoo Search app and integrates across Mail, News, Finance and Sports.

The Atlantic hires David Brooks as a staff writer and host of a new weekly video podcast, starting in February, after 22 years as an NYT opinion columnist (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/2026/01/atlantic-hires-davi…

The Atlantic hires David Brooks as a staff writer
New home for his writing, and to launch a video podcast

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

Antenna: 57% of new Fox One subscriptions between its August 21 launch and October 31 came from Prime Video Channels, giving Fox One an edge over ESPN Unlimited (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/antenna-amazon-gives-fox-one-edge-over-es…

Antenna: Amazon Prime Video driving sign-ups to Fox One
Fox's decision to partner with Amazon for sales of Fox One helped it grow faster than ESPN Unlimited, according to Antenna.

Reach's Manchester Evening News launches a metered paywall and a £4.99/month digital subscription as Reach starts rolling out paywalls across its titles (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/manchester-evening-news-launc…

Manchester Evening News launches paywall
Title begins charging online for premium content.

An interview with Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, on conflict reporting, sexism in the field, and balancing motherhood and work (Megan Cattel/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/lynsey-addario-chai-vasarhel…

Lynsey Addario in ‘Love+War’: A War Photographer’s Life on the Front Lines and at Home - Nieman Reports
A new documentary captures Lynsey Addario’s work as a photojournalist balancing conflict reporting and motherhood.