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Sources detail Fox's 20 months of missteps and miscalculations in the Dominion lawsuit that 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.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
The Messenger Chief Growth Officer Neetzan Zimmerman, a star of online media's meme-happy early days, is trying to recapture the best of the old blogosphere — The News — Months before the launch of The Messenger's news website earlier in May, its newly minted Chief Growth Officer …
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Jesse Armstrong / The Guardian:
Succession's creator recalls the show's origin and says Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and Robert Maxwell served as the “holy trinity of models” for Logan Roy — It has been the TV drama of our time - a brutal, hilarious unpicking of how power works.
Roula Khalaf / Financial Times:
The FT's editor says the newsroom will have a team to experiment responsibly with AI to help with tasks like mining data, analyzing content, and summarizing — Our journalism will continue to be reported, written and edited by humans who are the best in their fields
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@hellahueck, @sachinkalbag, @shashj, @ltrgoddard, @jayrosen_nyu, @consultifi, @tonywalker1, @stokel, @thattimwalker and Talking Biz News
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
A coalition of UK media industry bodies issues a statement challenging the Conservative party's £137/journalist fee to attend its October 2023 party conference — UK Conservatives are only party to charge press delegates for accreditation at annual gathering
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@michaelwhite, @richardjmurphy, @mediaguido and @snigskitchen
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
WPP partners with Nvidia to produce ads at scale for its clients using generative AI, helping create campaigns in minutes that would previously have taken weeks — Technology platform will drastically speed up production of bespoke content for clients — WPP, one of the world's largest …
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Bloomberg, @jonnoorlander, Nvidia Newsroom, MediaPost, Nvidia Newsroom and CNN, more at Techmeme »
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to crack down on dangerous and misleading videos — Neal Mohan goofs around with creators and woos advertisers to the platform's short videos and TV offerings
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@tsoh_investing and @youtubeliaison
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Global says Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, and Lewis Goodal's daily podcast The News Agents had 30M downloads in May 2023; their US weekly podcast debuts on June 20 — The News Agents announced on Thursday they would launch a new weekly US podcast. — The executive producer of the News Agents …
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.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Viacom18 signs a multiyear deal to bring NBCUniversal movies and TV shows to JioCinema in India, and plans to make the content exclusive to paying subscribers — JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney's Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for …
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Deadline, @ajumplakdibampa, @rohitkhilnani and Variety
New York Times:
Greater solidarity from other unions compared to the 2007 WGA strike is helping writers disrupt studio productions with already finished scripts — Workers from other unions have shown solidarity with the strikers, catching entertainment companies off guard. — Nicole Sperling reported from Los Angeles in the early-morning dark.
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@mymuppetnook, @grrmspeaking, @yashar, @nicsperling, @rawsonthurber and Los Angeles Times
Kelvin Chan / Associated Press:
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter dropped out of a voluntary EU agreement to combat online disinformation but adds that Twitter's “obligations remain” — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.
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