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4:40 PM ET, January 27, 2023

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Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed stock jumped 120% on January 26, bringing its market value to nearly $300M, its biggest gain since going public in December 2021, on its OpenAI news  —  BuzzFeed Inc. shares surged by a record on news that the digital-media company plans to use OpenAI to bolster some of its content creation.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Source: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, the anchors of the third hour of ABC's Good Morning America, are negotiating network exits after their romance surfaced  —  New York CNN —  —  T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, the anchors of the third hour of ABC's flagship morning show “Good Morning America …
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.
Charlie Hall / Polygon:
Dungeons & Dragons' publisher abandons its plan to modify the Open Gaming License and publishes the Systems Reference Document under a Creative Commons license  —  A full retreat by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast  —  Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast will abandon attempts to alter the Open Gaming License (OGL).
RadioToday:
City, University of London launches a Centre of Podcasting Excellence and the UK's first dedicated Master of Arts in Podcasting, which starts in September 2023  —  City, University of London is launching the UK's first dedicated MA in Podcasting and a Centre of Podcasting Excellence.
Discussion: @glendacooper and @chezspecter
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How luxury journalism at The Financial Times, The Times, and New Statesman Media Group is booming thanks to high-end advertisers and wealthy subscribers  —  How the FT, Times and New Statesman Media Group built a strong commercial offering in luxury.  —  No part of the media business is recession-proof.
Discussion: Media Voices
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Despite some big deals signed at the Sundance Film Festival, movie buyers are being much more selective in 2023, as theater audiences and content budgets shrink  —  The kind of independent movies that the festival showcases have struggled at the box office, spurring worries about what the market would be like this year.
Discussion: @nytimestech
CNN:
The US DOJ announces charges against three people for plotting to kill New York-based Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad, who has been targeted by Iran  —  The Justice Department announced new arrests Friday in a plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government.
 
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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
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
Discussion: IndieWire
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
 Earlier Picks: 
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
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more
Discussion: On Substack and Flack
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
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure
 
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