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Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Source: the FBI searched a media consultant's home in its investigation into whether Fox News video outtakes, leaked to 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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Christopher Spata / Tampa Bay Times:
A profile of Tim Burke, aka @bubbaprog, known for his media scoops and whose video equipment the FBI seized in a probe of leaked Tucker Carlson video outtakes — The former Deadspin journalist, who tweets often as @bubbaprog, has gone silent. — FBI agents served a warrant at a home …
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@markkatches, @tomscherberger, @spatatimes, Vanity Fair and @tbbaseballmkt
New York Times:
Sources detail how a series of missteps and miscalculations by Fox in the Dominion lawsuit led to one of the biggest debacles of Rupert Murdoch's media empire — Fox's handling of the defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which settled for $787.5 million, left many unanswered questions.
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@nytmike, @bgrueskin, @jfleming2870, @kimmasters, @mrbromwich, @eghosao and @dicktofel
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Axios' CEO says AI will lead to fewer big, generic media brands and more niche ones, force publishers to tighten direct relationships with consumers, and more — Artificial intelligence will soon transform media on a scale and pace that rivals the internet two decades ago.
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@sarafischer, @mathewi, @davidclinchnews, @ckrewson, @jayrosen_nyu, @kylewilsontharp, @mattdpearce, @mikeallen, @marcelonleite, @jakewilkns, @jason_kint, @scottmonty, @brianstelter and MarTech
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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@heidibeirich, @mastrobradipo, @accountabletech, @fboversight, @davidlaz, @ttp_updates, @jesselehrich, @haydenfield and The Wrap
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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@emilymbender, @emilymbender, @emilymbender, @emilymbender, @venkatananth, @janebsinger and @datadhrumil
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
Steven McIntosh / BBC:
After former This Morning host Phillip Schofield admitted to an affair with a younger colleague and left ITV, some question how much ITV managers knew in 2020 — ITV has said it investigated rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and a younger employee in 2020 - but both “repeatedly denied” it.
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Brian Melley / Associated Press:
A UK court clears for trial Hugh Grant's lawsuit against News Group Newspapers over alleged illegal snooping by The Sun journalists and investigators in 2011 — A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging …
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Variety, @dave1agar, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, New York Daily News, BBC, Plain Dealer, The Messenger, The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
An interview about free speech with Masha Gessen, who quit PEN America's board after the group disinvited Russian writers from an event when Ukrainians objected — A conversation about balancing free-speech commitments in an era of war. — Last week, my colleague Masha Gessen announced …
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@rlswrites, @newyorker, @newyorker, @megan_buskey and @ichotiner
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
An interview with Jimmy Finkelstein, the former owner of The Hill and founder of 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, @scottgordonwi, @nataliekorach, @scclemons, The Wrap, @jason_kint, @joepompeo, @joeconchatv, @jbenton, @jbenton, @mediaevan, @clairehoworth, @scottnover, @jadubin5, @vanityfair, @ckrewson and @pkafka
Chris Pash / AdNews News:
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson criticizes the Global Disinformation Index, saying such organizations that rank news outlets have “undue influence on ad spend” — Robert Thomson, CEO of global media group News Corp, says he's discovered advertising agency staff letting personal …
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International News … and New York Post
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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