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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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.
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Sarah Honosky / The Asheville Citizen Times:
An NC Superior Court jury finds two reporters guilty of trespassing for covering a 2021 protest in a park after its closing time; they are appealing, again — ASHEVILLE - After a weeklong trial and two hours of deliberation, a Superior Court jury found self-described leftist Asheville Blade …
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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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Financial Times:
Sources: Cineworld CEO and his management team will receive a combined $30M-$35M cash payout to leave the company after it emerges from Chapter 11 in July — CEO Mooky Greidinger and his brother Israel to receive most of the cash after group emerges from Chapter 11
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
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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?
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
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