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4:25 AM ET, January 27, 2023

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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance quizzes and personalize content; a spokeswoman says the newsroom remains focused on human-generated journalism  —  CEO Jonah Peretti intends for artificial intelligence to play a larger role in the company this year  —  Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Sources question The Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan's strategy, after top executives left in 2022, union distrust grew, and layoffs hit beside new job postings  —  After a decade of growth, the paper is laying off staff and was reportedly on track to lose money last year.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
In a memo to staff, Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel announces layoffs affecting 274 people, or ~7% of the outlet's workforce, across nearly all departments  —  Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest print and digital publishers in the country, is laying off 274 people, roughly 7% of its staff …
Scott Lamb / Medium:
Medium updates its standards to welcome “the responsible use” of AI-assistive technology and to require stories created with AI assistance to be clearly labeled  —  Transparency, disclosure, and publication-level guidelines  —  Last month, we asked the Medium community …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Former employees of Russia-backed broadcaster RT America take over its former Washington, DC studios and ramp up GlobalTek, a media venture formed in April 2022  —  Former employees of Russian propaganda broadcaster RT America have taken over its old studios in downtown D.C. and are ramping up a new media venture, Axios has learned.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCU reports Q4 revenue rose 5.9% YoY to $9.89B as EBITDA fell 36.3% YoY to $817M; Peacock had 20M+ paid subscribers and its EBITDA loss grew 75% YoY to $978M  —  Parent company Comcast reported its broadband and pay TV subscriber figures for the latest period.
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Comcast and NBCUniversal executives expect Peacock's EBITDA losses to peak in 2023 at “around $3B” and “improve steadily from there”; Peacock lost $2.5B in 2022
James Vincent / The Verge:
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, doesn't let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed  —  Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, has clarified its policies on the use of AI writing tools in scientific papers.
Meduza.io:
Russia designates Meduza an illegal, “undesirable organization”, meaning anyone who “cooperates” with the outlet, including sources, can face felony prosecution  —  The Russian Prosecutor General's Office designated Meduza as an illegal, “undesirable organization” on Thursday, January 26.
Dessi Gomez / The Wrap:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences partners with Letterboxd, a film-focused social network that has 8M members, ahead of the Oscars on March 12  —  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a partnership with Letterboxd, the growing social network …
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen's most-streamed titles on US TVs in 2022: Stranger Things, followed by NCIS, CoComelon, Ozark, and Encanto; streaming content consumption rose ~27% YoY  —  Nielsen's year-end rankings put the Netflix hit head and shoulders above every other title.  —  One of Netflix's biggest shows ever is …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launched its flagship TikTok account on January 24, after creating specialized accounts including for NYT Cooking and the Hard Fork podcast  —  On March 21, 2007, The New York Times announced itself on Twitter: “Word up!  It is I, the Gray Lady, with a ‘shoutout’ to all my hip young friends.
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Kareem Shaheen / New Lines Magazine:
Mainstream outlets made important missteps in the Hamline University controversy, particularly by not publishing the painting of Muhammad that sparked it all  —  The omission is curious because the drawings are central to both the reporting and the cause of academic freedom
Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:
Discussion: Ad Age and Beet.TV
 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more
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Washington Post:
After layoffs, The Washington Post adds seven contributors to its opinion section and two visual team members to present content in “new and compelling formats”
Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
Following Adult Swim, Hulu cuts ties with Rick and Morty co-creator and co-star Justin Roiland, who worked on two Hulu shows; both will continue without him
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John Hopewell / Variety:
Roots Group, the real estate developer behind Madrid Content City, Netflix's first European production hub, plans to build a Guadalajara Content City in Mexico
Axios:
Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban