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Frank Landymore / Futurism:
CNET has been using an “AI engine” to write financial explainers under a CNET Money byline since November 2022, reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by a human — Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Tim Davie says the BBC isn't “proactively putting a date on a digital switchover” and that the shift won't “remove things used by lots of people too soon” — The BBC is “not proactively putting a date on a digital switchover or anything stupid like that,” …
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Union email: Dow Jones, which owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch, is laying off staff; no WSJ newsroom cuts are expected in this round — Dow Jones, a division of News Corp that includes the financial news outlets the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Sources: DirecTV, which has fewer than 10,000 employees, is laying off ~10% of its upper ranks to cut costs; the last day for affected staff will be January 20 — - DirecTV is laying off hundreds of employees — roughly 10% of its upper ranks — as the company looks to reduce costs, according to people familiar with the matter.
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New York Times:
Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, sold 1.43M copies on its first day, including pre-orders, a record for any nonfiction book ever published by Penguin Random House — The steady drumbeat of revelations that preceded the book's release helped push early orders and initial sales, making “Spare …
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Sam Kille / The GroundTruth Project:
The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World, names Rob Zeaske as its new CEO, starting January 23 — The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World, is pleased to announce the selection of Rob Zeaske as its CEO and president …
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Saksha Menezes / Bloomberg:
Research: UK vinyl sales reached £150.5M in 2022, surpassing CD sales, which fell 17.4% YoY to £124M, the first time vinyl outsold CDs since 1987 — Vinyl Outsold CDs in the UK Last Year — Sales from 2018 to 2022 — Source: The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association
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ERA Ltd and Digital Music News
The Information:
Sources: GroupM clients cut Twitter ad spend by 40%-50% since Elon Musk took over; Standard Media Index is seeing fewer January and February ad bookings in 2023 — Twitter's ad business is not recovering. — Clients of WPP-owned GroupM, the world's largest ad-buying firm …
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Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
Q&A with The Last of Us showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann on working with HBO, adapting a video game, avoiding past failures, fan reactions, and more — Hollywood has mostly failed to adapt successful video games into satisfying series and films.
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
A September 2022 New York Times investigation inadvertently exposed apparent phone numbers of Russian soldiers, critical of the Ukraine war, and their families — For months, the Times has been exposing the phone numbers of soldiers who criticized the war as well as the numbers of potential family members.
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New York Times:
Noah Oppenheim is leaving NBC News in a reorganization; NBCUniversal appoints Rebecca Blumenstein, a top New York Times editor, as NBC News' editorial president — The appointment of Ms. Blumenstein, a deputy managing editor at The Times, is a part of a broad overhaul of the news division at NBCUniversal.
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Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku:
Some creators are protesting YouTube's policy changes to regulate swearing and violence, which demonetize gaming videos and retroactively impact old content — YouTube's policy changes on swearing and violence are being retroactively applied to old gaming content
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