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CNBC:
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook — - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety …
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The Wrap, @fboversight, @ttp_updates, @haydenfield, @davidlaz and @jesselehrich, more at Techmeme »
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40% — Twitter - already a small source of clicks for publishers - has further declined in importance as a traffic referrer in recent years.
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@mattnavarra, @anelsona and @robpegoraro
Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the media's coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting — The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months.
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@datadhrumil
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
An interview with Jimmy Finkelstein, former owner of The Hill who just launched The Messenger, on the site's business model, expansion plans, critics, and more — In a wide-ranging sit-down, the former Hill owner opens up to Vanity Fair about what's to come for his week-plus-old news site …
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@joepompeo, @jbenton, The Wrap, @jason_kint, @jbenton, @joepompeo, @jbenton, @scottgordonwi, @scclemons, @nataliekorach, @joeconchatv, @mediaevan, @clairehoworth, @scottnover, @jadubin5, @vanityfair, @ckrewson and @pkafka
Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Source: FBI searched a media consultant's home as it probes whether leaked Tucker/Kanye interview videos published by Vice and MMFA came from hacked material — The search at City Council member Lynn Hurtak and Tim Burke's home was part of a probe into computer hacks at Fox News.
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@willsommer, Awful Announcing, The Hill, Mediaite, Deadline, The Messenger, @brianstelter, Florida Politics, @oneunderscore__, @willsommer, @bristei and The Daily Beast
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A second wave of podcasting consolidation seems to have arrived with two acquisitions in the past week: Audily bought Rococo Punch and LiveOne bought Kast Media — Hello, hello, welcome back to Soundbite. This week is all about consolidation in podcasting.
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Talking Biz News
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Freedom of the Press Foundation announces the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, a position dedicated to secrecy infrastructure reforms in the US — In one of his last public talks, to a room full of more than 200 journalists, Daniel Ellsberg was asked what the media could do to better support whistleblowers.
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@twocatsand_docs, @runasand, @azmatzahra, @freedomofpress, @johncusack and @raineyreitman
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Axios Local's July launch in San Diego will be its last in 2023 and possibly 2024; source: the program missed its $10M revenue forecast for 2022, netting $8.6M — The nationwide program—now in almost 30 markets—generated $8.6 million in 2022 — The nationwide network of free …
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@mikeorren, @adweek, @lucasgrindley and TVNewsCheck
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches …
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@morning_joe, Platformer, Semafor, Insider, NBC News, @karaswisher, Mediaite, New York Daily News, @jason, @karaswisher, @alexeheath, Boing Boing, @davidfrum, @elonmusk, CNN, @ike_saul, @therickwilson, @jasonmillerindc, @rmac18, The Nation, @davidsacks, New Republic, The Spectator World, The Hill, @davidsacks, @nameredacted247, @gc22gc, @benjysarlin, @fortunemagazine, Fox News, @kenroth, @joebiden, The Verge, @mehdirhasan, New York Times, @futureshift, New York Times, Fortune, @karaswisher, @kylegriffin1, @mattnavarra, Forbes, @oneunderscore__, @wakeup2politics, @andreasharsono, @shutupamanda, The Register, @tedlieu, @bcmerchant, The Guardian, @jayrosen_nyu, @briannawu, @sherman4949, @andrewkimmel, @karaswisher, @mollypriddy, @rolandsmartin, @ike_saul, @briannawu, @brianstelter, @benjysarlin, @aidnmclaughlin, @oneunderscore__, @mattbinder, @_kxdyn, @oliverdarcy, @mattgertz, @karaswisher, @oneunderscore__, The Week, @jason_kint, @jonathanvswan, @karaswisher, @justinbaragona, @chrislhayes, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, Gizmodo, Axios, TVNewsCheck, Semafor, NPR, The Verge, The Wrap, Slate, The Information, New York Magazine, NBC News and TechCrunch
Wired:
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.
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@laurengoode, more at Techmeme »
Emma Hurt / Axios:
How CNN helped and benefited from Atlanta, as the company prepares to move out from downtown's CNN Center into its original, smaller Techwood campus in Midtown — Cable News Network — CNN — was founded in Atlanta in 1980 by media mogul Ted Turner as the world's first 24-hour television news network.
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@conorsen, @conorsen, @reubenr80027912, @dkthomp, @conorsen, @stphnfwlr, @emma_hurt, @axios and @conorsen
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
DirecTV strikes a nonexclusive multiyear deal with EverPass Media, formed to distribute NFL games to commercial spots, to keep broadcasting NFL Sunday Ticket — - DirecTV has struck a multiyear deal with EverPass Media to commercially provide the NFL's “Sunday Ticket” package.
Scott Mendelson / The Wrap:
Lionsgate reports Q4 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $974.9M estimated, net loss down 7% YoY to $96.8M, and Motion Picture revenue up 85% YoY to $532.1M — The Santa Monica-based mini-major again blasted past Wall Street predictions — Lionsgate again came in above market expectations …
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Motion Picture Association, Yahoo Finance, WORLD SCREEN, MediaPost, Lionsgate, Variety, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
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