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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight — It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics sat squarely at the center of the national spectrum.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks — The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times reaches a tentative deal with the NewsGuild of New York that would set a salary minimum of $65K; a vote is expected in the coming week — The new agreement, if ratified, will give union members immediate salary increases of up to 12.5 percent.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets some accounts add an extra member outside their household for $7.99/month — Streamer intros “extra member” option priced at $7.99/month for adding access to those outside account holder's household
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
A US West Coast editor quit before The Messenger launched; she said she was hired for long-form journalism but the job demanded aggregated content and clickbait — “What was presented to me as the job and what the job was was two entirely different things,” said Bender, an editor who quit the much-hyped startup days before its launch.
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Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD's Max, formerly HBO Max, does not provide specific credits for writers, directors, and other creatives, instead grouping them under “Creators” — The former HBO Max no longer provides specific credits for writers, directors and other creatives.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google launches topic authority to surface content for Search and News based on the source's notability of topic or location, reputation, and original reporting — Google has announced a search system named “topic authority” to help surface relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and Google News.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google plans to experiment with running Search and Shopping ads, which are fully customized based on users' queries, inside its conversational AI Search tool
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Belarus pardons Roman Protasevich, the journalist sentenced to eight years after he was arrested on a Ryanair flight; former allies say he has turned on them — Roman Protasevich became a symbol of the struggle for democracy when Belarus forced down a plane and arrested him.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
A look at New York Magazine's investment in newsletters, growing its subscribers from ~500K in 2019 to pass 1M across its 30 email products in December 2022 — The publisher has used pop-up, subscriber-only newsletters to boost retention — Since retooling its newsletter strategy in 2019 …
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
News sharing app Artifact now lets users flag articles as clickbait, monitoring reported articles to potentially reduce distribution or change their headlines — Feel like an article is clickbait-y? Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram's co-founders, now has a tool that lets you feel like you can do something about it.
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
How The American Prospect, Balls and Strikes, Bolts, The Guardian US, Hammer & Hope, Popular Information, and States Newsroom are changing political journalism — Political journalism is in crisis. Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets …
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Georgetown University:
Georgetown and the Knight Foundation commit $30M to establish the Knight-Georgetown Institute to connect researchers, journalists, and tech leaders on policy — Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute …
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Michael Paulson / New York Times:
How playwrights worked to find a compromise with the WGA amid the writers' strike to allow the Tony Awards on June 11 to go on, without a written script — The screenwriters' strike threatened next month's broadcast, a key marketing moment for the fragile theater industry.
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