Media
Armytage enters the 60 Minutes fray at Nine
The Australian’s Steve Jackson reports Samantha Armytage is finally set for a bigger editorial moment at Nine.
Word is she’s been promised a run of stories on 60 Minutes in the new year, putting her into the orbit of Tara Brown, Tracy Grimshaw and Amelia Adams.
LinkedIn emerges as surprise player in News Bargaining Incentive talks
The government is midway through its four-week consultation sprint on the revived News Bargaining Incentive, the plan that would force tech platforms to pay for news.
According to John Buckley in Capital Brief, the Treasury has now quietly floated LinkedIn as a possible inclusion, according to people briefed on recent meetings.
Radio
AI blunder names wrong man on Triple M bulletin
Adelaide journalist Dylan Hogarth has found himself accidentally cast as a fugitive, after a Triple M news bulletin wrongly identified him as a man on the run from police.
Yes, really.
According to Radio Info, Hogarth had written a paywalled story for The Advertiser about an unnamed suspect the night before, then woke to messages from friends who thought he was being hunted across the city.
Advertising
Sydney Sweeney breaks silence on American Eagle backlash
As Lanre Bakare writes in The Guardian, the actress has conceded she should have spoken up sooner during the backlash over her American Eagle jeans campaign, which critics accused of flirting with eugenics-coded messaging.
Staying quiet, she now says, only made things worse.
Companies
Netflix seals Warner Bros deal in $72bn power play
The BBC’s Rachel Clun reports Netflix has struck a colossal $72bn deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery’s film and streaming assets, emerging on top after a long tussle with Comcast and Paramount Skydance.
Hollywood consolidation just hit another gear.