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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
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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.
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Generative AI in the Newsroom, @anconnoisseur, @anconnoisseur, @anconnoisseur, @artifact_news and @mikeyk
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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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The Verge, The Wrap, Wired, @glenngabe, @sippey.bsky.social and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
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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MediaPost, Variety, Media Matters for America, The Verge, The Wrap, @sarafischer, The Hill, @markwarner, @1markmoss, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, @deggans, CNN, The Messenger and @donie, more at Techmeme »
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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@brndngrffth and @insiderunion, Thanks:@talkingbiznews
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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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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 …
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. …
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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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NPR, New York Times, The Hill, @davidfolkenflik, @sorayamcdonald and @saeed_ahmed
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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@ashleyrcarman, The Information, Billboard and El País
Reuters:
Sources: Netflix, Amazon, and Disney discussed suing and other ways to stall India's new tobacco rules, which require they add health warnings to smoking scenes — Streaming giants Netflix, Amazon and Disney on Friday privately discussed a possible legal challenge and other ways to stall India's …
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@soutikbbc and @adityakalra
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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@tonetalks, @bw and @ashleyrcarman
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