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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.
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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.
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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
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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 …
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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.
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@glendacooper and @chezspecter
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.
Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission opens an investigation into 100+ influencers after 150+ tips they might not be disclosing sponsored content — Consumer watchdog received over 150 tip-offs about influencers who reportedly failed to disclose affiliations with products they were promoting
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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
The New York Public Library acquires Joan Didion and John Dunne's joint personal literary archives, including letters, photos, manuscripts, and family records — The joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, includes manuscripts, photographs, letters, dinner party guest lists and other personal items.
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@nypl, Fox News, @meganeabbott, @crollyson and @pgourevitch
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.
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@nytimestech
Anne Kauranen / Reuters:
A Finnish court finds two journalists at Finland's largest daily guilty of revealing classified intelligence in a 2017 report, sentencing one to pay a fine — A Finnish court on Friday said two journalists at Finland's largest daily Helsingin Sanomat were found guilty of revealing classified …
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Reuters, Reporters Without Borders, Al Jazeera and Fox News
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.
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@mkmasud_bd, @altustro, @altustro, @berci, @iethics, @mmitchell_ai, @jjvincent and @jcreswellbaez, more at Techmeme »
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Charter reports a loss of 144K pay TV subscribers in Q4 2022, up 148% compared with the 58K loss in Q4 2021, ending 2022 with a total of over 15.1M subscribers — The cable giant's mobile business continued to accelerate as the company added 615,000 mobile lines.
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Next TV, MediaPost, Light Reading, The Wrap, Media Play News and @tvgrimreaper
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 …
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The Verge, @bmorrissey, @steipete and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
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