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Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Muck Rack, a database of journalists, launches PressPal, an AI tool that can draft press releases, scan for keywords, and recommend specific media targets — Muck Rack, the public relations tech company, is joining the artificial intelligence race. … - PressPal's pitch recommendations …
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@asilbwrites, @harrymccracken, @davidclinchnews, Quartz, Axios, Convince & Convert, @rafat and Muck Rack
Paul Karp / The Guardian:
Australian media companies including The Guardian, News Corp, Nine, and AAP reject a law proposal that includes a right to sue outlets for invasions of privacy — Coalition of organisations says changes would have ‘devastating impact on press freedom’ and are not in public interest
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Substack writers are getting a pop-up saying Twitter “unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets”, a day after Substack unveiled its Twitter-like Notes — Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack unveils Notes, letting users share posts, quotes, images, links, and more, shown in a short form feed that “may look like familiar social media feeds”
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Michele Weldon / JAWS:
Alicia Shepard, the ombudsman for NPR from 2007 to 2011 and a journalist, author, academic, and advocate for ethical public journalism, died on April 1 at 69 — Alicia (Lisa) Shepard 1953-2023 — Award-winning journalist, author, academic and advocate for ethical public journalism …
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Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
The Moscow City Court plans to hear an appeal on April 18 from the lawyers of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained on spying accusations — A Moscow court will hear an appeal on April 18 that could decide where he is held or grant him bail
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@betswrites, New York Post and NBC News
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube adds a Podcasts tab to channel pages globally, between Live and Playlists, on its website and mobile apps, showing playlists creators marked as podcasts — While we're still waiting for podcasts to widely roll out (in the US) to YouTube Music, YouTube has added a “Podcasts” tab to channel pages.
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@glenngabe, Tubefilter and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Nielsen starts reporting over-the-top local programming metrics, comparable to its over-the-air viewing numbers, letting stations calculate their full reach — Stations can determine full reach of local content across platforms — Nielsen said it has begun reporting metrics for over-the-top feeds …
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MediaPost and Radio & Television …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
New National Enquirer Publisher Ted Farnsworth says the tabloid no longer uses “catch and kill” tactics to buy and bury unsavory stories about powerful people — “Catch and kill,” the tactic of buying and burying stories at the heart of the case against former President Trump …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India amends its IT law to ban social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring that they use its fact-check unit — India amended its IT law on Thursday to prohibit Facebook, Twitter and other social media firms from publishing …
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@mattnavarra, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NPR CEO John Lansing says Twitter adding a “US state-affiliated media” label is “unacceptable”; less than 1% of NPR's annual budget on average is from US grants — Elon Musk tweets that the change to the public broadcaster “Seems accurate”
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Semafor:
Tests show that Twitter stopped showing “Stay informed” labels, added in February 2022 to flag tweets linking to Russia, China, and other state-controlled media
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Matt Novak / Forbes:
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception
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Reuters:
India says China barred two Indian journalists from Beijing; China says the country had to take “countermeasures” after India asked a Xinhua journalist to leave — India and China broke into fresh diplomatic sparring on Thursday, accusing each other of creating visa hassles …
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg:
Six-year-old Paris-based digital media company Brut raised €35M to €40M, bringing its total funding to ~$153M; the outlet has ~500M monthly unique viewers — A youth-focused media company that churns out fast-paced videos has netted another billionaire backer, bringing the total to four of the world's wealthiest people.
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@bloombergasia
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Cable news networks' wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump's arraignment suggests a return to the mutually beneficial model that let Trump monopolize coverage — The wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's arraignment demonstrates how quickly the lessons of 2016 have been forgotten. — The Trump Show is back.
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