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3:30 PM ET, June 16, 2023

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Financial Times:
Sources: media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe  —  Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models
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The Guardian:
As part of its new policy on AI, The Guardian says it will use AI only when it contributes to original journalism and to help with corrections and suggestions  —  Over the last three months, colleagues from our editorial, creative, engineering, product, legal, commercial and partnerships teams …
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Gannett plans to launch an AI tool to create bulleted summaries of USA Today articles in Q4 and is developing a tool to break stories into various formats  —  Publisher Gannett plans to include generative artificial intelligence in the system it uses to publish stories as it and other news organizations begin …
Discussion: @iatalkspace and @martinpatience
Washington Post:
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that led to a landmark press freedoms SCOTUS ruling and founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation, dies at 92  —  Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, he leaked a top-secret history of the conflict, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case
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.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other  —  The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
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.”
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?
The Wrap:
As Southern California Public Radio plans cuts, tax records from 2021 show ex-CEO made ~$580K while retired and another exec made ~$560K working part-time  —  Tax returns show that two former public radio CEOs at NPR's affiliate LAist made massive salaries until 2021
Discussion: @radioguychris
Financial Times:
Ogilvy sets out plans for an AI accountability code to clearly disclose AI-generated influencer campaigns and commits to using an AI “watermark” on its ads  —  Agency Ogilvy is pushing for more industry disclosure when lifelike virtual characters are used in ads
Discussion: The Drum
The Guardian:
Boris Johnson joins The Daily Mail as a weekly columnist to write “completely unexpurgated stuff”, a day after a report found he deliberately misled parliament  —  Acoba says former PM has clearly broken rules by not telling it about column until half an hour before it was publicly announced
 
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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”
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
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CNBC:
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
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Guardian announces a global ban on gambling advertising, arguing that taking money from services that can lead to addiction is unethical