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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content — Universal Music artists and songwriters plan to explore the future of royalties and content-creation tools in the age of generative AI.
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Maria Heeter / The Information:
Memo: Bloomberg LP names Vlad Kliatchko as CEO, JP Zammitt as President, and plans to form a new board chaired by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney — Bloomberg LP made a sweeping overhaul of its top ranks, putting in place a new CEO, president and chief financial officer …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: on a call this summer, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to buy more ads if he wants more coverage on the network — The Scoop — If Vivek Ramaswamy wants to appear on Newsmax, he should pay to do it. — That was the message …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming TV app Fire TV Channels adds content from Variety, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, TV Line, and more — Amazon is updating its recently launched Fire TV Channels app. The free, ad-supported streaming platform has a new sidebar that lets …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR's podcast and programming chief, Anya Grundmann, plans to leave at the end of 2023, as NPR combines news and programming under one chief content officer — NPR's top programming executive, Anya Grundmann, announced today she will step down at the end of the year after nearly three decades at the network.
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump says he plans to skip the GOP primary debates, as “the public knows who I am”; Trump has counterprogramming options like a Tucker Carlson interview — Trump has repeatedly criticized Fox News, the host of Wednesday's primetime event, insisting it is a “hostile network” …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Rival publishers defend Newsquest after the NUJ accused the UK regional news giant of not passing Local Democracy Reporters funding from the BBC to its staff — Reach said it has put infrastructure in place to support the LDR scheme and wants it to succeed.
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Kylie Robison / Fortune:
Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Jezebel EIC Laura Bassett resigns, becoming the seventh EIC to quit G/O Media in eight months; sources detail harsh working conditions under CEO Jim Spanfeller — In this week's edition of Confider, we look at how G/O Media just lost its seventh EIC in eight months—a sign of absolute tumult at the private equity-owned media empire.
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@lebassett, @thedailybeast, @chansteele, @rcmacleod, @nickfarruggia, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social, @ryansingel@writing.exchange, @atrupar, @onionincunion, @jasonschreier, @caitlinrcruz, @keyavakil, @juwanthewriter, @imjasondiamond, @ohheyjenna, @jackmirkinson.bsky.social, @evilgalprods, @ted53.bsky.social, @xpatriciah and The Wrap
Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more — The most powerful people in podcasting weigh in with their predictions, plans and biggest pet peeves.
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@thr, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tucker Carlson plans to stream a pretaped Trump interview on X during Wednesday's Republican presidential debate — The former Fox News host plans to stream pretaped conversation with the former president on X during Wednesday's Republican presidential debate.
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@karaswisher and @asharma
Robert Draper / New York Times:
A profile of George Chidi, an Atlanta journalist who writes on Substack and who documented a 2020 meeting of “alternate” Georgia electors favoring Donald Trump — George Chidi's cameo appearance in the indictment of Donald J. Trump in Georgia was a plot twist, but not an accident.
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.”
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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
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@youarelobbylud, @johnobrennan2, @kenroth, @mandoline_blue, @luighseach, @alexwitzleben, Financial Times and New Statesman
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