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8:45 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
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: Press Gazette, The Wrap 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