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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
[Thread] On May 11's editorial call, CNN's Chris Licht says Kaitlan Collins “made a lot of news” and “America was served very well by what we did last night” — Chris Licht begins CNN's 9am editorial call by praising @kaitlancollins for a “masterful performance last night.” He says “I couldn't be more proud of her” and the whole team in NH. Then he says he's aware of the backlash... More to come
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In CNN's town hall, Donald Trump repeated lies that the 2020 election was rigged, mocked E. Jean Carroll, and called moderator Kaitlan Collins “a nasty person” — The former president condones violence on Jan. 6, 2021 and a government default in a televised appearance
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Tucker Carlson's Twitter show may temporarily solve his need for relevance, but to generate revenue he may use Rumble or launch something akin to The Daily Wire — The Scoop — Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter is intended to preserve his influence and political relevance …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Google Search changes could significantly decrease publishers' traffic and affiliate revenue, but the Perspectives section may highlight individual journalists — A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
The Washington Post names Matea Gold as a managing editor, replacing Steven Ginsberg, who left in 2022 to join The Athletic; Gold joined The Post in 2013 — Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday.
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Wall Street Journal:
To leverage NFL Sunday Ticket, YouTube plans to give access to NFL games to high-profile creators, who could post behind-the-scenes videos for a revenue share — Google unit plans to have content creators post videos from NFL sidelines, locker rooms — YouTube has a new pitch for advertisers …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian, The Times, The Economist, Financial Times, and Tortoise form the Publishers in Podcasting consortium coordinated by Acast, to share best practices — The five publishers will share expertise and best practice in a new consortium set up by Acast.
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Mathieu Pollet / Politico:
European media group Mediahuis acquires Brussels-based EU news website Euractiv, whose founder says the goal is to become “one of Europe's media champions” — Mediahuis owns numerous newspapers across Europe. — European media group Mediahuis has acquired …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images — Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at The Athletic's writer-hosted live rooms, which serve as a two-way audio platform for beat reporters to have postgame conversations with subscribers — The Athletic's first live room took place in September 2021. By January 2022, they'd done 100. Today, they're closing in on 1,000.
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Reuters:
News Corp beats estimates with Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $2.45B vs. $2.37B est., net income down 43% YoY to $59M, and news media revenue down 3% YoY to $563M — News Corp (NWSA.O) on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue on cost-cut measures and strong digital subscriptions across …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Sony's faith-based $8/month streaming service Pure Flix, which has ~1M subscribers in the US and Canada, plans to merge with Hallmark rival Great American Media — - Sony's Pure Flix, a faith-based streaming service, will merge with Great American Media, the owner of two cable networks.
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Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz:
The WGA writers' strike is disrupting productions, stopping the production of some shows completely, closing writers' rooms, suspending existing deals, and more — Netflix's Stranger Things, Marvel's Blade, AppleTV+'s Severance, and more — The impact of Hollywood's ongoing writers' strike …
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos pulls out of next week's PEN America gala, saying he didn't want to distract from the organization's work, amid the writers' strike
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