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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
An in-depth profile of CNN under Chris Licht and his vision for the network as ratings fall and he seeks to create a forum for conversation and “truth” — CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network's reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
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Wall Street Journal:
CNN names veteran Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Leavy as its COO, to take over commercial, operational, and promotional activities across the channel
CNN names veteran Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Leavy as its COO, to take over commercial, operational, and promotional activities across the channel
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections” — In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines marked as clickbait by many users — Last month, the Artifact news app introduced an option for users to flag an article as clickbait.
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Mike Krieger / Artifact News:
Artifact will replace a clickbait title with a GPT-4 headline first only for users who request it, and a human reviewer may later make the new title the default — At Artifact, we harness the power of AI and combine it with creative product design to improve the news & content experience for our users.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Internal memo: Insider CEO Henry Blodget thanks all employees and criticizes the Insider Union for its strike, calling contract demands “unworkable” — Insider chief executive officer Henry Blodget sent out the following after its editorial staff went on strike: — Team,
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@insiderunion:
Insider Union says it has failed to agree on a fair contract with Insider management and 250 employees are now on indefinite strike
Insider Union says it has failed to agree on a fair contract with Insider management and 250 employees are now on indefinite strike
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week — A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost its head of brand safety …
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The Guardian:
Elan Closs Stephens is appointed acting chair of the BBC and will start from June 27 for 12 months or until a permanent chair is found, whichever is sooner — BBC board member to assume role from 27 June after resignation of Richard Sharp — Prof Dame Elan Closs Stephens …
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Dan Caesar / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A bankruptcy judge rules that Diamond Sports Group must pay four MLB teams the full value of contracts to keep televising games; Diamond sought to cut its costs — After two long days of hearings, more than nine hours on Wednesday then a session Thursday that lasted until shortly after 6:30 p.m. …
Gannett:
Terence Samuel, vice president and executive editor of NPR News, is joining USA Today as EIC, starting July 10 — Veteran leaders promoted to advance local content and journalism across the USA TODAY Network — Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) today announced veteran journalist …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Jemele Hill is leaving Spotify, which has been exclusively distributing her podcast and her Unbothered Network of shows since 2019 — Another prominent podcaster is leaving Spotify Technology SA, as the company reverses many of its biggest investments in original audio and loses yet another Black voice.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify's Parcast, Gimlet, and other podcast studios still have not received their 2023 budgets, hindering the approval of new shows and some expenses — Hi, welcome back to Soundbite. This week was a short one, so we're going to run through a couple stories and get out of here.
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Vogue Business:
Memo: British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful plans to become Vogue's global creative and cultural advisor in 2024 and hire a British Vogue head of editorial content — The British Vogue editor-in-chief will become editorial advisor in 2024. — To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here.
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