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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
A look at Amsterdam-based Vylo, an app that combines news aggregation with user-generated video commentary and has raised a $2M pre-seed led by Kleiner Perkins — TikTok has revolutionized the way people consume and share information. Now a startup called Vylo wants to take the short video format …
Bloomberg:
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment, which runs apps that publish animated shows and novels, raised $930M from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and others — Kakao Entertainment Corp. has won $930 million from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia and Singapore …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney names Nike Executive Chairman Mark Parker as its chairman, succeeding Susan Arnold, and fights activist investor Nelson Peltz's effort to join its board — - Disney has named Mark Parker, the executive chairman of Nike, its new chairman of the board.
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
A look at Matt Yglesias' boring journey toward the political center, as 13,000+ Substack users pay $80/year for his slightly contrarian, mildly annoying takes — The Washington ur-blogger's slightly contrarian, mildly annoying, somewhat influential, very lucrative path toward the political center
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Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Alphabet and Meta face fiercer ad market competition from streaming TV and retailers like Amazon, after making 50%+ of online ad dollars in the past seven years — For more than a half-decade, Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have ruled the digital advertising market—the money machine that funds the modern internet.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
C-SPAN co-CEO Susan Swain writes to newly elected US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for permission to use the network's independent cameras in the House chamber — New York CNN — — C-SPAN isn't packing up its cameras quietly. — The public affairs network on Tuesday sent a letter …
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
US Representative Matt Gaetz introduces an amendment to allow C-SPAN cameras on the House floor during normal proceedings, replacing the “antiquated” pool view
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