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7:55 AM ET, May 9, 2023

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The Pulitzer Prizes:
List of 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners, including WSJ for Investigative Reporting, WaPo for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting  —  New York, NY (May 8, 2023) — Columbia University today announces the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Four of the 16 Pulitzer Prize awards went to local outlets reporting on corruption; Spotify's Gimlet Media won for audio reporting, its first Pulitzer Prize  —  The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with four of the 16 awards for journalism across 15 categories …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Tucker Carlson wants to force Fox News to let him out of his contract, which expires in January 2025; Carlson and Elon Musk discussed working together  —  Tucker Carlson is preparing to unleash allies to attack Fox News in an effort to bully the network into letting him work for …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says 40+ new advertisers came into the 8pm slot since Tucker Carlson's exit and it hopes to bring back a full complement of advertisers to the slot  —  Tucker Carlson is out at 8 p.m. on Fox News Channel, and the network hopes that a host of blue-chip advertisers that for years avoided …
David Pierce / The Verge:
How Google's attempt to create a better, faster mobile web for media companies with the AMP standard ended up ruining publishers' trust in the internet giant  —  Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP.  In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
AMC Networks Q1: revenue up 0.7% YoY to $717M, operating income down 0.8% YoY to $173M, US ad sales down 20% YoY; streaming subs fell to 11.5M from 11.8M in Q4  —  This drop in subs follows a slight increase of 700,000 paid streaming customers between Q3 and Q4 of last year.
Anna Fazackerley / The Guardian:
More than 40 scientists resign from the editorial board of science journal Neuroimage, which charges £2,700+ per paper, to protest publisher Elsevier's “greed”  —  Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Puck News co-founder and CEO Joe Purzycki is leaving, H1 2023 ad revenue so far is up 200% YoY, and subscribers “more than doubled during the past year”  —  Puck News co-founder and CEO Joe Purzycki is leaving the company, according to an internal note sent from co-founder …
J. R. Moehringer / New Yorker:
The ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir Spare on becoming a ghostwriter, gaining a new perspective on the tabloids after the UK media covered him, and more  —  Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.
Low De Wei / Bloomberg:
Chinese authorities arrest a man for using ChatGPT to write and spread fake news articles, one of the first known instances, with one article having 15K+ views  —  Chinese authorities have detained a man for using ChatGPT to write fake news articles, in what appears to be one of the first instances …
 
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
How Something Awful plans to archive the source images of millions of Imgur links by May 15, after Imgur announced it would delete nudity, porn, and old content
Diana Li / Bloomberg:
After GPTZero gained 1.2M users since January, co-founder Edward Tian raised $3.5M to launch Origin, aimed at “saving journalism” by detecting AI disinformation
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment will run a global task force to tackle online sports piracy, working with Interpol, Europol, DAZN, beIN, and more
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NYT is getting ~$100M from Google over three years as part of a deal allowing Google to feature Times content on its platforms, including News Showcase
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Amazon launches Amazon MGM Studios Distribution to offer its movies and TV shows for rent or purchase on streaming services besides Prime Video and on airplanes
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product Officer Tyler Whitworth on building Max from the ground up, new features, and more
Rolling Stone:
Sources: in spring 2020, Tucker Carlson tried to get Fox to fire PR chief Irena Briganti by convincing Lachlan Murdoch, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, and others