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9:25 AM ET, August 21, 2023

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The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump confirms he will skip the GOP presidential primary debates, as “the public knows who I am”; he has discussed a Tucker Carlson interview and other options  —  Trump has repeatedly criticized Fox News, the host of Wednesday's primetime event, insisting it is a “hostile network” …
Tim Adams / The Guardian:
An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaya Gazeta EIC Dmitry Muratov on the documentary about him, attacks on reporters, his motivations, and more  —  The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine
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Ben Aris / bne IntelliNews:
An interview with Kommersant's EIC as the business-focused outlet faces both Russia's shrinking press freedoms and EU sanctions after a controversial article  —  Kommersant editor: “It's not a question of pushing press freedoms outwards, but of preventing them from shrinking inwards.”
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Rival publishers defend Newsquest after the NUJ accused the UK regional news giant of failing to pass Local Democracy Reporters funding from BBC to its staff  —  Reach said it has put infrastructure in place to support the LDR scheme and wants it to succeed.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources describe a conversation where Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy asked GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to pay if he wanted the network to cover him  —  The Scoop  —  If Vivek Ramaswamy wants to appear on Newsmax, he should pay to do it.  —  That was the message …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
More media consolidation is likely, but most analysts say high interest rates, regulatory hurdles, and a shaky ad market make for one of the worst times to sell  —  Experts agree the media business needs to consolidate.  But high interest rates, a hostile government and a shaky advertising market …
Discussion: @lucas_shaw
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A judge upholds a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection as “human authorship is a bedrock requirement”  —  A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
Analysis: 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz are in Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J  —  Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
How The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Sun, The Independent, and other publishers are using non-news verticals to grow revenue, traffic, and subscribers  —  Building strong verticals beyond hard news can be a useful investment.  —  The New York Times “bundle” …
David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires  —  The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta (META.O) lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms …
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Pete Evans / CBC News:
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
A look at Standard Industries, a roofing conglomerate that employs some Vanity Fair alumni and has invested in media startups like Puck, Air Mail, and Pushkin  —  Technically, none.  So why has Standard Industries hired several of them?  —  When Graydon Carter started his digital newsletter …
 
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