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Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Spotify and Prince Harry and Meghan's production company Archewell Audio end their partnership less than a year after Meghan's podcast debuted on the platform — The couple's production company and the streaming service announced an end to their relationship, less than a year after Meghan's podcast debuted on the platform.
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Alex McCaskill, the Fox News producer who wrote the chyron labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator”, has left the company — Sources identified the culprit to The Daily Beast as Alex McCaskill, a longtime producer on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
With the future of RSN increasingly dire, a look at how the MLB's EVP of local media Billy Chambers and his team have prepared to take over game broadcasts — MLB executive Billy Chambers and his three person team took over Padres games in a day. What teams are next?
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
In the year to September 2022, the UK's Independent reports revenue up 12% YoY to £46.3M, of which 57% was non-ad, and operating profit down 65% YoY to £1.9M — Operating profit was down 65% due to investment in areas such as e-commerce, Independent TV and the US.
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Christine McCarthy, Disney's CFO since 2015, is stepping down; Kevin Lansberry, finance chief for parks business, will work as interim CFO starting July 1 — - Christine McCarthy will step down as Disney's chief financial officer. — She is taking family medical leave and will advise the company as it seeks a successor.
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Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have met News Corp, the NYT, and others to discuss copyright issues over LLMs and a possible subscription fee — Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: News Corp's HarperCollins and private-equity giant KKR are among the bidders for Simon & Schuster; second-round bids are due in mid-July — Simon & Schuster is pursuing a sale once again after the U.S. government blocked its attempted merger with Penguin Random House
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@heybonanos, Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Email: Twitter blocks paid promotion of a campaign video by North Carolina Sen. Rachel Hunt, who is running for lieutenant governor, due to “abortion advocacy” — “The mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told North Carolina candidate Rachel Hunt, according to emails HuffPost reviewed.
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Hanan Elatr, the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus tool to track them both — In the lawsuit, Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO's Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband's whereabouts before he was murdered
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MIT Technology Review, @runasand and @washingtonpost, more at Techmeme »
Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
The argument that paywalls are blocking access to quality news is flawed because paid content is not a new phenomenon and there is plenty of quality free news — PLUS: CNN is in denial — Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button:
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Jules Roscoe / VICE:
Invidious, an open-source “alternative front-end” for YouTube that removes tracking and ads, says YouTube sent a cease-and-desist letter over API violations — Invidious lets users browse YouTube without being tracked. Its developers say they won't make changes until they have to.
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@julesaroscoe and @motherboard, more at Techmeme »
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
How a local news site founder and an ex-Microsoft engineer created an AI to listen to meetings and write usable summary articles, and how human nuance gets lost — “Is it ready for primetime, ready to be released to the masses? Absolutely not...But can it be done?
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