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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Over a dozen Jewish celebrities and creators confronted TikTok executives on a call, urging them to do more to address antisemitism and harassment on the app — TikTok faces escalating accusations that it promotes pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel content. “Shame on you,” Sacha Baron Cohen said on the call.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
TikTok removes videos promoting Osama Bin Laden's “Letter to America” that justified the 9/11 attacks, but calls reports that they were trending “inaccurate” — - George Santos “Blatantly Stole From His Campaign” And Deceived Donors, House Ethics Committee Report Says; Congressman Won't Seek Reelection
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
The Guardian takes down a 2002 letter written by Osama Bin Laden criticizing US support of Israel, after the letter went viral on TikTok
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
How the Washington Post decided to publish an extremely graphic report on mass shootings, aiming to balance showing the reality and avoiding desensitization — ‘We just felt that there was a lack of understanding of what actually happens in these shootings,’ the Post's executive editor told Poynter.
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Ned Blackhawk wins the National Book Award for nonfiction and Justin Torres wins for fiction; 12+ nominees issue a statement seeking an Israel-Hamas cease-fire — Justin Torres' novel “Blackouts,” a daring and illustrated narrative that blends history and imagination in its recounting …
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Zibby's Highlights, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, New York Times, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Times and NPR
Dan Sheehan / Literary Hub:
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anne Boyer resigns as The New York Times Magazine's poetry editor, objecting to “ghoulish euphemisms” about Palestinian suffering — It's been a hell of a 24 hours for writers demonstrating moral courage. — Last night at the National Book Awards …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Study: there are ~6,000 local newspapers left in the US, down from 8,891 in 2005; 4,790 publish weekly and 6.4% of counties don't have a local news outlet — The decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates its guidelines to allow monetization on videos that display nudity while breastfeeding, non-sexually graphic dancing, and more — YouTube is updating its guidelines to allow new types of content to monetize adult content, including videos that display nudity while breastfeeding and non-sexually graphic dancing.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
How Audacy's $1.5B bet on CBS Radio backfired: radio is struggling, piling into podcasting did not generate enough revenue to replace lost ad sales, and more — - Field family gambled, lost on $1.5 billion CBS Radio merger — Young listeners and sponsors bailing on struggling industry
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
An interview with Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker about bucking the trend of regional press decline, AI experiments, digital subscriptions, and more — Online paywalls, AI experiments and local ad sales all came up in the rare interview. — The chief executive of the UK's second biggest …
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Will Knight / Wired:
YouTube lets some Shorts creators test Dream Track, a new DeepMind-powered AI tool to generate and remix music in the styles of nine artists, including Sia — YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A group of 10 staff members at podcast company Pushkin Industries unionize through the WGA East, with the management voluntarily recognizing the proposed unit — The unionization effort comes amid a broader retrenchment in the podcasting market
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@ashleyrcarman and Hollywood Reporter
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Sources: India's Reliance signs a deal with The Pokémon Company to exclusively stream 1,000+ TV episodes and ~20 movies on JioCinema, to compete with Disney — The entertainment unit of India's Reliance (RELI.NS) has signed a deal with The Pokemon Company to show children's shows …
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