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Jane Bradley / New York Times:
Sources: FT editor Roula Khalaf killed a story on allegations of unwanted advances by ex-Guardian columnist Nick Cohen, saying the story was not an “FT story” — Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances.
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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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Axios, Inc42 Media, @ajumplakdibampa, @rohitkhilnani, Deadline and Variety
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 32M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final; Hotstar had 25.3M in 2019 — India's JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday …
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Variety, Inc42 Media, @aviralbhat, @aparanjape, Bloomberg and @ravisutanjani, more at Techmeme »
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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Media Voices, @michaelwhite, @richardjmurphy, @mediaguido, @snigskitchen and HoldtheFrontPage
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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Report for America, Axios, GoldDerby, @ltrgoddard, @hellahueck, @jayrosen_nyu, @consultifi, @sachinkalbag, @shashj, @stokel, @thattimwalker and Boing Boing
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
Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: India denied visas to the last two Chinese journalists in the country; of the four Indian journalists in China in 2022, at least two can't return — Rift that opened with deadly border clash deepens as neighbors deny reporter visas — SINGAPORE—India and China …
Emily Bell / @emilybell:
[Thread] An AI-generated ad from a verified Twitter account linking to The Guardian and saying TV presenter Ian Wright is dead highlights Twitter's dysfunction — Welcome to the @elonmusk advertising nightmare. Friend sent me this tweet asking wtaf the @guardian url is doing on this weird AI generated ad suggesting (incorrectly) that Ian Wright is dead . The link goes to an old page on the Guardian site 1/ [image]
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@justicar, @jbenton and @asifintoronto, more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
The trial of Elaheh Mohammadi, accused of “colluding with foreign powers” by Iran for reporting on Mahsa Amini, whose death sparked unrest, began on Monday — An Iranian journalist went of trial behind closed doors on Monday on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral …
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Deadline, Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel and Reporters Without Borders
Ben Mack / Esquire:
A look at the US government-funded Antarctic Sun, Antarctica's biggest and longest-running newspaper, which covers scientific research on the continent — Meet the one-person team behind Antarctica's longest-running newspaper, the Antarctic Sun. — The whipping wind wasn't letting up in the Allan Hills.
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@esquire
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.
Robby Soave / Reason:
If Twitter becomes a home for right-leaning content, Republicans will have to rethink their ire toward Section 230, which they argue allows too much moderation — Twitter is in the midst of a transformation: It is becoming a right-leaning news platform. This will have profound consequences …
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New York Times and @stephenlemons