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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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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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 …
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MediaPost, @lucas_shaw and The Information
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
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