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2:40 PM ET, February 22, 2023

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR plans to lay off ~10% of its workforce, or at least 100 people, and eliminate most vacant positions, citing reduced ad revenue, particularly for podcasts  —  HEADLINE: NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops  —  NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
A profile of Casey Bloys, the CEO of content for HBO and HBO Max, as he oversees programming on a new mega-service combining HBO Max and Discovery+ this spring  —  Casey Bloys was about four years into his tenure as a programming executive at HBO when he was driven to champion a project that was disliked by others at the network.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches DJ, an AI-powered radio DJ feature that offers curated music and commentary about the tracks and artists in a “stunningly realistic voice”  —  Ahead of Spotify's upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Artifact, the personalized news reader created by Instagram's co-founders, opens to the public, with new features and no sign-up required, on Android and iOS  —  Artifact, the personalized news reader built by Instagram's co-founders, is now open to the public, no sign-up required.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at Substack-hosted entertainment publication Ankler Media, which says it is profitable, with 50% of revenue from subscriptions and 50% from advertising  —  Rushfield's sharp-tongued missives have earned him a bold-faced subscriber list.  ("I read it the second I see it pop up," says Richard Plepler.)
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
BritBox International reports 3M subscribers across the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, up from 2.6M in March 2022  —  BritBox International has reached three million subscribers across its eight international markets, Variety can reveal.
David Marchese / New York Times:
Q&A with YouTube star Emma Chamberlain about shifting her focus to podcasting, her Spotify deal, the pressures of being a YouTube creator, and what's next  —  At only 21, Emma Chamberlain is already a veteran of YouTube fame.  Starting at 16, Chamberlain began making and sharing videos …
 
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Dozens of New York Times staff object to the NewsGuild of New York head's letter affirming the right to criticize the newspaper, amid a feud over trans coverage
Eduardo Suárez / Reuters Institute:
An interview with Nick Waters, a journalist on the Bellingcat team that collects, verifies, and archives social media evidence of war crimes in Ukraine
James Hercher / AdExchanger:
Walmart's ad revenue grew nearly 30% YoY to $2.7B in 2022, led by Walmart Connect in the US and Flipkart Ads, and over 20% YoY in Q4 2022
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Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February 2023, as some worry that generative AI could commoditize book writing
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems
 
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