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4:15 PM ET, May 30, 2023

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Jane Bradley / New York Times:
Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Defector's efforts to create an ethically uncompromised journalists' utopia and the accompanying trade-offs, like diminished access to sources  —  Defector in pursuit of a journalists' utopia  —  Deadspin, the influential sports and culture blog that all but imploded a few years ago …
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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Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
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
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 …
For America / Report for America:
Report for America partners with Investigative Editing Corps to oversee up to 10 projects over two years in host newsrooms; projects last three to six months  —  To encourage more investigative reporting in local newsrooms and to help local reporters hone those skills, Report for America …
Discussion: @report4america
Emily Bell / @emilybell:
[Thread] An AI-generated ad from a Twitter Blue account linking to The Guardian and falsely saying TV presenter Ian Wright is dead highlights Twitter's issues  —  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]
Reuters:
The trial of Elaheh Mohammadi, who Iran accused of “colluding with hostile powers” for reporting on Mahsa Amini, whose death sparked unrest, began on May 29  —  An Iranian journalist went of trial behind closed doors on Monday on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral …
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.
Discussion: @esquire
 
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Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council launches investigations against seven opposition TV channels for their allegedly derogatory election coverage
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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
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New York Times:
Greater solidarity from other unions compared to the 2007 WGA strike is helping writers disrupt studio productions with already finished scripts
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
Samuel Agini / Financial Times:
A look at Formula One's D2C broadcast product F1 TV, which has become a key component of the sport's growth strategy in the US, Brazil, Mexico, India, and more
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
An Arizona senator's restraining order against a journalist, now overturned, shows far too many politicians and judges frequently disregard the First Amendment
Discussion: @freedomofpress
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”