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9:40 AM ET, April 24, 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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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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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
Dara Kerr / NPR:
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
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 …
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 …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Disney begins its second round of layoffs today, cutting around 4,000 jobs by the end of the week, as part of plans to lay off 7,000 employees  —  Restructuring will continue “for the next couple of months,” Disney Entertainment chiefs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman wrote to staff Monday …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
President Biden averaged 10 news conferences per year during his first two years in office, the fewest since Reagan, and has granted only 54 press interviews  —  As President Biden prepares to announce his bid for a second term as soon as Tuesday, his decision to keep the news media at arm's length is part of a deliberate strategy.
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico, Al Jazeera and The Hill
Mae Anderson / Associated Press:
Analysts say how much Fox Corp pays of the $787.5M Dominion settlement remains unclear and could be much lower due to insurance and income tax deductions  —  Fox Corp.'s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower.
Discussion: The Nation
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS plans to launch America Decides, a daily streaming politics show, on May 1, featuring a team of the network's anchors and correspondents
Discussion: Deadline
Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
How Doni Chamberlain and her team at A News Cafe are documenting the far-right's takeover of Shasta county in northern California, despite threats of violence
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
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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
Discussion: @zachweiner
Wall Street Journal:
The CPJ: 363 journalists were detained in 30+ countries in 2022, before Evan Gershkovich; RSF's 2022 press-freedom index: Russia ranked 155 out of 180 countries
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at sports media rights money with cable TV's rise and fall, and why leagues and franchises worry they won't replicate the reach and revenue of peak cable
Reuters Institute:
Highlights from talks at International Journalism Festival 2023 in Perugia, Italy, about reporting in exile, investigative journalism, generative AI, and more