Mediagazer: BuzzFeed debuts a Verishop-powered online store for its lifestyle commerce brand Goodful, its first store combining licensed and curated goods (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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Philip Bump / Washington Post:

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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces suffers crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches on Twitter that prevented him from declaring his candidacy.

Peter Kafka / Vox:

Both The Messenger and CNN promise down-the-middle news and try to sell themselves as antidotes to “biased media”, but there's little evidence people want that — CNN and the Messenger both say they're chasing the middle. Uh-oh. — Item 1: Last week, the Messenger …

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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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Sara Fischer / Axios:

BuzzFeed debuts a Verishop-powered online store for its lifestyle commerce brand Goodful, 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 as a joint venture with snack company Mondelez.

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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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Andrew Fedorov / The Fine Print:

A Forbes contributor sent two story drafts to his source “first for approval and changes”; other writers are criticizing the practice as damaging to journalism — A publicist's email snafu reveals the lax editorial standards — allowing sources to review copy before publication …

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The NewsGuild of New York:

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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:

The American Prospect, Balls and Strikes, Bolts, The Guardian US, Hammer & Hope, Popular Information, and States Newsroom are reimagining 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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Katie Robertson / New York Times:

The New York Times reaches a deal with the NewsGuild of New York that would raise the salary minimum from $37.5K to $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.

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Linda Yaccarino's main challenge will be improving Twitter's 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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