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4:25 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.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune blames its layoffs on a budget shortfall as revenue fell 5% in 2023 and public institutions pulled sponsorships; some blame leadership issues  —  Frustration over a lack of transparency has been amplified by the newsroom's status as “the gold standard of nonprofit journalism” …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Daily Wire plans to offer the first episode of a 10-part series, Convicting a Murderer, on X on September 8 for free and spend six figures on X promotion  —  The Daily Wire, a conservative media and entertainment company, will debut its first full-length docuseries Sept. 8 on X …
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox Sports signs a deal to use Google Cloud's generative AI to search footage from 1.9M videos and produce new TV, social, and marketing content quickly  —  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: the Washington Post has quietly laid off top marketing staffers, 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 had previously considered selling or spinning off.
Discussion: @semaforben and @mediaevan
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK Independent names its ex-managing director Christian Broughton as CEO, succeeding Zach Leonard who will focus 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
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 …
Reuters:
A look at Disney shifting its India strategy to free cricket on mobile, hoping to boost ads, after the unit reported a $41.5M loss on $390M revenue in FY 2022  —  Walt Disney (DIS.N) is attempting to revive the fortunes of its streaming business in India by offering free cricket on smartphones …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Snap rolls out Dreams, Snapchat's take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others popularized, charging $1 for an eight-photo pack; the first is free  —  After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams.
 
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
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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
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