Mediagazer: Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” (Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo)

5:30 AM ET, April 12, 2023

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Joanna Partridge / The Guardian:

In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk said Twitter will change @BBC's “government-funded media” tag to “publicly funded” and he had “utmost respect” for the broadcaster — Billionaire also says pain level from owning site is ‘extremely high’ but the business is ‘breaking even’

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Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:

Twitter considers outlets to be “Government-funded Media” when “the government provides some or all” of their funding and “may” be involved in editorial content — The Twitter CEO told an NPR reporter that he was using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets …

David Pierce / The Verge:

YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user's subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year — Football fans, start saving those pennies. YouTube just announced pricing for its new Sunday Ticket package …

Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo:

Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's article app is taking a page from Reddit's playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.

Discussion: @chrismessina@mastodon.xyz, Engadget, @chrismessina@mastodon.xyz, Artifact News and TechCrunch

Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look back at the UK tabloid phone-hacking case, ahead of the Dominion-Fox case: Rupert Murdoch and Fox survived the scandal and press rules changed little — A little over ten years ago, a long-awaited report, authored by Lord Justice Leveson, examined the incestuous relations between …

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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

ESPN, Slate, and NPR explain why they're putting more podcasts on YouTube: more traffic thanks to Shorts and reach that allows them to monetize a new audience — ESPN, NPR, and Slate are experimenting with watchable podcasts. — It has recently come to my attention that some people prefer to watch podcasts.

Discussion: Slate, NPR, Signal Hill Insights, Ad Results Media and @sarahscire

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:

Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker — Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider.

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:

Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network — Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app — LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …

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Agence France-Presse:

The Kuwait News shows a short video of Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter, and says the anchor might deliver news on the site's Twitter account in the future — Kuwait News introduced Fedha, promising that it could read online news in the future — A Kuwaiti media outlet has unveiled …

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Google adds free ad-supported streaming TV content from Tubi, Plex, Haystack News, and FAST channels of its own to Google TV in the US, for a total of over 800 — FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) channels are becoming inescapable these days and booming in popularity through …

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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:

Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple, and other platforms to block developers training AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …

Discussion: Music Ally, @rasmus_kleis and Music Business Worldwide

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:

Instagram gives brands access to parts of its creator marketplace via two APIs and expands access to the marketplace for brand agencies — Instagram announced today that it's extending access to parts of its creator marketplace via API to make it easier for brands to discover and work …

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