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2:40 AM ET, June 13, 2023

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Washington Post:
The Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan plans to leave in August and the outlet names Gates Foundation founding CEO Patty Stonesifer as its interim CEO  —  Ryan, chief executive of The Post for most of the decade since Jeff Bezos bought it, will lead the new Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
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New York Times:
Jeff Bezos has been more involved in The Washington Post's operations in 2023, a source says after staff raised concerns in January about Fred Ryan's management  —  Patty Stonesifer, the former chief executive of Martha's Table, will be The Post's interim chief executive.
Washington Post:
A profile of The Washington Post's interim CEO Patty Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive who has never led a news company and insists her role is temporary
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Pat Sajak, the host of Wheel of Fortune for 40 years, plans to retire in 2024 after the game show's 41st season which begins in September  —  Pat Sajak, who has hosted the hit game show Wheel of Fortune since Ronald Reagan was president, will retire next year.
New York Times:
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert indefinitely delays her new book set in 1930s Russia after a backlash from Ukrainian readers, prompting mixed reactions  —  Elizabeth Gilbert delayed her new novel indefinitely after an online backlash condemned the book's publication while Russia is at war with Ukraine.
Elaina Plott Calabro / The Atlantic:
How Lara Logan, once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent, became a conspiracy theorist after CBS publicly disavowed a Benghazi story she had reported in 2013  —  Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent.  Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Athletic lays off ~20, or ~4% of its journalists, and plans to give 20+ reporters new assignments, shifting from one reporter per team to broader coverage  —  Nearly 20 journalists will lose their jobs and more than 20 others will be moved to new assignments.
Joe Killian / NC Newsline:
The Ida B. Wells Society canceled its 2023 summer programs for young journalists, after the UNC-Chapel Hill lagged in moving the society's funds to its new home  —  In an exclusive interview, society cofounder Nikole Hannah-Jones expresses frustration with the inexplicable delay
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU is set to hit Google with a formal antitrust complaint regarding the company's ad tech, with a statement of objections coming as soon as June 14  —  Google is set to be hit with a formal antitrust complaint from the European Union that could pave the way for massive fines …
Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge acquire the Golden Globes from the HFPA and plan to make the awards a for-profit enterprise; the HFPA plans to “wind down”  —  The Globes will no longer be under the oversight of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization …
Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware:
Google's Search Generative Experience seems like an “AI plagiarism engine” that cobbles together snippets of text from a variety of sites, often word-for-word  —  The Search Generative Experience seems more like a text-copying experience.  —  Search has always been the Internet's most important utility.
 
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Jane Bradley / New York Times:
The Guardian apologizes to at least one woman for its handling of sexual harassment complaints against columnist Nick Cohen and plans to change its processes
Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: Fox News sends Tucker Carlson a cease-and-desist letter over his Twitter show; the network says Carlson's Fox contract runs through December 31, 2024
Max Tani / Semafor:
Text messages: in 2020, WarnerMedia used CNN's relationship with then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo's brother, to advance its commercial interests