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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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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 …
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Washington Post, Awful Announcing, @lukeoneil47, @mediaevan, @maxrivlinnadler, @kottke, @caseynewton.bsky.social, @sorayaroberts, @libbycwatson, @inthefade, @dannyfunt, @saksappeal, @drewmagary, @mckinneykelsey, @kslane, @freddydeknatel, @biblioracle, @annatarkov, @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, @laurawags, @mikeisaac, @apocalypticanow.bsky.social and @kateconger
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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Front Office Sports, Variety, Inc42 Media, @aviralbhat, @aparanjape, Bloomberg and @ravisutanjani, more at Techmeme »
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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
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, HoldtheFrontPage, @mediaguido and @snigskitchen
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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Axios, Talking Biz News, @rasmus_kleis, GoldDerby, @ltrgoddard, @hellahueck, @jayrosen_nyu, @consultifi, @orskov, @sachinkalbag, @stokel, @thattimwalker, Boing Boing and @shashj
Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: India denied visa renewals to the last two Chinese journalists in the country; of 2022's four Indian journalists in China, at least two can't return — Rift that opened with deadly border clash deepens as neighbors deny reporter visas — SINGAPORE—India and China …
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@huxijin_gt, @imac_too, @zichenwanghere, @sreemoytalukdar and @vikrantkumar
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
For America / Report for America:
Report for America partners with Investigative Editing Corps to oversee up to 10 projects, each taking three to six months, over two years in its host newsrooms — To encourage more investigative reporting in local newsrooms and to help local reporters hone those skills …
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@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]
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@babyboymonaghan, @jbenton, @justicar and @asifintoronto, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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Voice of America, @luighseach, Al Jazeera and Deadline
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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