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11:25 AM ET, August 30, 2023

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New York Times:
Warner Bros. Discovery names Mark Thompson, the former New York Times CEO and BBC director-general, as the chairman and CEO of CNN, starting on October 9  —  Mr. Thompson, who oversaw a period of growth at The New York Times, will lead the network during a pivotal period.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver debut Spotify podcast Strike Force Five; proceeds will go to their out-of-work staff  —  ‘Strike Force Five’ limited series features Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver
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Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
Q&A with SiriusXM SVP Adam Sachs on heading the entertainment, comedy, and podcast programming unit, leveraging radio, comedians embracing podcasts, and more  —  It's only Tuesday, and it's already been a packed week for podcast news.  Shortly before hitting publish on this issue of Hot Pod …
Discussion: Podnews, The Hill and 98 Rock Online
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Starz lowers the price of its annual membership from $74.99 to $69.99 and claims to be one of the few streaming networks that is profitable  —  Great news for fans of Outlander and other popular shows on STARZ: Starting today, STARZ has lowered the price of its annual membership form $74.99 a year to $69.99.
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo:
CoinDesk retracts two opinion pieces criticizing TRON founder Justin Sun and Chainalysis executive Elizabeth Bisbee, citing “highly personalized attacks”  —  Popular crypto industry news outlet CoinDesk has retracted a pair of opinion articles criticizing the founder …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Disney, Bloomberg, WaPo, The Atlantic, Axios, ABC, ESPN, Condé Nast, Hearst, Vox, and others join the NYT and Reuters in blocking OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler  —  Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.
Discussion: Poynter, The Wrap, Press Gazette and Decrypt
Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Douglas Feaver, an Online News Association founder and a Washington Post reporter who retired as WashingtonPost.com's executive editor in 2005, dies at 84  —  As a reporter in the 1970s and 1980s, he specialized in writing about transportation.  He also was assistant Metropolitan editor and a business desk editor.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune blames its first-ever layoffs on a budget shortfall after institutions pulled sponsorships and revenue fell 5% YoY; some blame its leadership  —  Frustration over a lack of transparency has been amplified by the newsroom's status as “the gold standard of nonprofit journalism” …
 
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Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
In a “safety” blog post, X announces “paid-for promoted political posts”, starting in the US, and plans to “provide a global advertising transparency center”
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK-based The Independent names Managing Director Christian Broughton as its CEO, succeeding Zach Leonard, who will work on growing the US business as global COO
Discussion: The Independent
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube now lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don't violate the same policy for 90 days
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
TechCrunch acquires Connie Loizos' media startup StrictlyVC, which has 60K newsletter subscribers, and appoints Loizos as editor-in-chief and general manager
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
Google unveils SynthID, a tool that can embed an invisible digital “watermark” into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
WBD's Max will stream seven AMC+ shows from September 1 to October 31 as AMC seeks to maximize AMC+'s reach; source: no money is involved in the marketing event
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
MSNBC is drawing in major ratings, having emerged as the go-to network for coverage of Donald Trump's criminal charges just as Fox News and CNN face instability
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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