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Todd Spangler / Variety:
After backlash, Max will change back film credit listings to break out directors and writers, blaming a technical “oversight” for grouping them under “creators” — Now the company says it is changing the listings back to how they were presented on HBO Max, blaming the issue on a technical “oversight.”
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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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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Semafor raised $19M from Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and others, replacing the $10M from Sam Bankman-Fried, and says the outlet has $10M+ in 2023 revenue so far — The media start-up's new backers include Henry Kravis, a founder of the private-equity giant KKR, and Jerry Yang, a Yahoo founder.
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Variety, @eliotwb, The Information, @bmorrissey, @viajoshhunt, @sdkstl, @jimlaporta, @justin_b_smith, @benmullin and @hkanji
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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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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American Press Institute, Columbia Journalism Review, @amyhanauer, @chrisgeidner, @jmshumway and The Rural Blog
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Hands-on with Sudowrite's Story Engine, a generative AI tool for writing long-form fiction novels that works better than expected but still has big limitations — Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. — Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for writing whole novels.
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@jjvincent and @shakeelhashim, more at Techmeme »
Sara Fischer / Axios:
BuzzFeed launches a Verishop-powered online store for lifestyle commerce brand Goodful, launched in 2016, its first store combining licensed and curated goods — BuzzFeed on Tuesday will debut a new online retail storefront for Goodful, a lifestyle commerce brand it launched in 2016 initially …
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@sarafischer and @dottkhan
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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Journalism.co.uk and @markstenberg3
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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@craignewmark, @grahambrookie, @emilytav, @paulohm, @paulohm, @blackamazon, Knight Foundation, @jcperrino, @techgeorgetown, @ashleyzohn, @iohnsands, @csetgeorgetown and @lauradenardis
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Linda Yaccarino's main challenge at Twitter will be improving advertiser relationships while keeping Elon Musk happy; sources say she wants to raise her profile — Elon Musk joked in December that he'd step down as Twitter's chief executive officer once he found someone “foolish enough” to take his place.
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@profgalloway, @sarahfrier, CNN and The Messenger, more at Techmeme »
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.
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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@benmullin, @jayrosen_nyu, @devonheinen and @justinbaragona
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