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10:15 PM ET, April 23, 2023

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is leaving the company effective immediately, after a Comcast investigation into an employee's complaint of inappropriate conduct  —  Jeff Shell had been at the Comcast Corp. unit for roughly two decades  —  NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Shell is leaving …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A timeline of BuzzFeed News, from hiring Ben Smith in December 2011 to announcing IPO plans in March 2017, including funding deals and competitors' critiques  —  The “BuzzFeed is the most important news organization in the world” era.  —  A little over a decade after BuzzFeed News came to life …
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Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti innovated and kept BuzzFeed News going longer than others would have, only for Facebook's pivot away from news to kill his creation  —  I heard about BuzzFeed News shutting down right before it hit Twitter.  Word travels fast among industry old-timers like myself, and we try to keep each other in the loop.
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
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Dara Kerr / NPR:
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads
Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
Alan Baldwin / Reuters:
Funke Media Group sacks the editor of German magazine Die Aktuelle, which ran an AI-generated interview with Michael Schumacher, and apologizes to his family  —  The publishers of a German magazine that ran an ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked …
Ben Smith / Vanity Fair:
An inside look at Disney's offer to buy BuzzFeed in 2013 for $450M, with the potential to earn $200M more, that was nearly accepted by Jonah Peretti  —  In an excerpt from his new book, Traffic, former BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith reports how Jonah Peretti enraged Bob Iger by turning …
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Bloomberg:
Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week  —  Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday.  Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN announces King Charles, a weekly one-hour primetime show hosted by Gayle King and Charles Barkley, expected to launch in fall 2023 and air on Wednesdays  —  Gayle King and Charles Barkley will help break traditional barriers around news programming later this year when they launch …
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr is causing transactional disputes and increasing client and freelancer mistrust  —  While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms.
Reuters Institute:
Highlights from talks at International Journalism Festival 2023 in Perugia, Italy, about reporting in exile, investigative journalism, generative AI, and more  —  Here are a few highlights from the festival on topics such as press freedom, investigative journalism, climate coverage and AI
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Alastair Reid / @ajreid:
[Thread] At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, journalists debate the shifting value of social networks, especially Twitter and Facebook
 
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