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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix is in talks to livestream its first sporting event this fall, a celebrity golf tournament with professional golfers and Formula One drivers — Tournament would feature celebrities from Formula One series ‘Drive to Survive’ and golf program ‘Full Swing’
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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
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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 …
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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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Lam Thuy Vo / The Markup:
How YouTubers are filling information voids for immigrants who don't speak English, including one who translates far-right outlets like Newsmax into Vietnamese — How one Vietnamese community depends on YouTube for news, and what that tells us about the unmet needs of immigrant enclaves
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