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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Gannett is hiring a full-time Taylor Swift Reporter to cover Swift's fanbase and her effect on pop culture as she embarks on the next stage of her Eras Tour — The chance to report on Taylor Swift full-time just debuted. — Millions of Americans encounter the immovable force that is Taylor Swift …
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Taylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone:
Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her — In her book ‘Extremely Online,’ journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Source: The White House plans to send a letter to US news executives, including CNN and The NYT, urging them to “ramp up” their scrutiny of House Republicans — The White House sent a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny …
Tim Starks / Washington Post:
Researchers: the iPhone of Meduza owner Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus in Germany, the first known case of the tool being used against a Russian — Unclear is who planted the spyware while the founder of the Meduza news outlet was in Germany — The iPhone of a prominent Russian …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour reflects on her career, including how seeing genocide led her to adopt her motto: “be truthful, not neutral” — Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.
Daniel Tilles / Notes From Poland:
Poland's government plans to create a state streaming service to let citizens watch the national sports teams' matches and films produced with public funds — Poland's government has outlined plans to create a state streaming service - which media have dubbed a “national Netflix” …
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI announces its text-to-audio tool Stable Audio, which can generate 20, 45-second tracks per month for free or 500, 90-second tracks for $12/month — What comes after building generative AI technology for image and code generation? For Stability AI, it's text-to-audio generation.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Music Ally, Billboard and Digital Music News, more at Techmeme »
Stephanie Kaloi / The Wrap:
Southern California Public Radio CEO Herb Scannell says he'll retire, three months after 12% of LAist staffers were laid off amid news of big salaries for execs — The announcement comes three months after 12% of LAist staffers were let go in heavily criticized layoffs
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Inside Radio, Current, Los Angeles Times, LAist, RadioInsight and Variety
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Former FaZe Clan staff describe a mismanaged creator organization, as its market cap falls from $725M at its 2022 SPAC merger to below $15M; FaZe fired its CEO — The board fired CEO Lee Trink following a steep decline in the shares — Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Daily Mail product director Simon Regan-Edwards says the paper has about “160,000 subs, with 90,000 digital” and Mail+ has become a “substantial” revenue stream — Executives from two of the UK's biggest newsbrands share lessons from their digital products.
David Pierce / The Verge:
News sharing app Artifact adds Links, a section where users can post any type of link and discover links through a Following page or an algorithmic For You page — Artifact, the algorithmic news-reading app started by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, was never really meant to just be a news-reading app.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Showcase to let US-based artists with 1,000+ streams in the past 28 days pay to promote their work in the app's revamped Home feed — Spotify this week launched a new tool called Showcase that allows artists to promote their work directly in the streaming app's revamped Home feed introduced earlier this year.
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The Verge and Music Ally
Carolyn Giardina / The Hollywood Reporter:
Around 50 Marvel VFX employees vote unanimously to unionize with the IATSE, in an NLRB-run election; IATSE aims to form a national VFX Local by 2023's end — IATSE aims to form a national VFX Local by year's end. — It's official: In a unanimous vote, roughly 50 in-house visual effects employees …
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Bio: Elon Musk told Bari Weiss that Twitter needs to be careful when discussing China due to Tesla's business, and that China's Uyghur repression has two sides — A passage in Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk sheds new light on the billionaire's willingness to placate the genocidal Chinese regime.
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