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5:05 PM ET, August 29, 2023

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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.
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  —  The network's mix of weighty reflection, analysis, and schadenfreude is drawing in major ratings, surpassing Fox News and CNN …
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” …
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  —  TechCrunch, the digital tech and business publication owned by Yahoo, has acquired StrictlyVC, a media startup, from longtime Silicon Valley journalist Connie Lozois.
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Daily Wire plans to debut the first episode of Convicting a Murderer, its 10-part docuseries, for free on X on September 8 and spend six figures on X ads  —  The Daily Wire, a conservative media and entertainment company, will debut its first full-length docuseries Sept. 8 on X …
Discussion: @sarafischer
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox Sports signs a deal to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI Vision system to search footage from 1.9M+ videos and produce new TV, social, and marketing content  —  Fox Corp.'s Fox Sports is turning to generative artificial-intelligence to help its staffers more rapidly generate content from millions of hours of its archived games footage.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: on August 22, The Washington Post quietly laid off several top marketing staff, program managers, and product designers at Arc XP, its technology arm  —  The Scoop  —  The Washington Post has quietly laid off staff from Arc XP, the technology arm of the paper that Post leadership …
Discussion: @semaforben and @mediaevan
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  —  The Independent has appointed Christian Broughton, its managing director and former editor, as its next chief executive as it seeks …
Discussion: The Independent
 
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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
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
LGBTQ+ outlet Pink News shifts towards ad agency partnerships, after its social media revenue fell 50%+ from 2022, when social accounted for ~80% of its revenue
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
In a first, the SEC charges Impact Theory with offering unregistered securities by selling NFTs; the LA-based entertainment company agreed to pay a $6.1M fine