Mediagazer: Q&A with Northeastern University's Meredith Clark and The Pivot Fund founder Tracie Powell about studying funding to BIPOC news outlets, local news, and more (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)

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Emilia David / The Verge:

Getty partners with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a tool trained on Getty's licensed photos that lets users create legally protected images — Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty's library of licensed photos.

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Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo:

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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:

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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:

Q&A with Northeastern University's Meredith Clark and The Pivot Fund founder Tracie Powell about studying funding to BIPOC news outlets, local news, and more — “You say you're giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you're actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms.

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Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg:

Liberty Media, which had an 83% stake in SiriusXM as of July, proposes splitting off the business that houses SiriusXM and combining it with Sirius XM Holdings — Liberty's Sirius XM shares are held in a tracking stock. — “Liberty's proposal rationalizes the dual corporate structure between LSXM …

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Rachel Scully / The Hill:

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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:

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Jessie Pang / Reuters:

A Hong Kong court sentences the head of a leading journalist group, one of the city's last groups advocating for rights, to five days for obstructing the police — The head of Hong Kong's leading journalists group was sentenced on Monday to five days jail for obstructing police officers …

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:

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Jay Peters / The Verge:

Reddit launches a Contributor Program that pays verified users monthly based on the karma earned and the gold received for “eligible contributions” on the site — Reddit is going to let users spin Reddit gold into real money as part of its new “Contributor Program,” the company announced on Monday.

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