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3:25 PM ET, August 21, 2023

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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.
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  —  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
Maria Heeter / The Information:
Memo: Bloomberg LP names Vlad Kliatchko as CEO, JP Zammitt as president, and plans a new board of directors chaired by ex-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 …
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 …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR's podcast and programming chief Anya Grundmann to leave at 2023 end, as NPR combines news and programming divisions under a single 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.
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.
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 …
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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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
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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
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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”
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
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute