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3:30 PM ET, December 13, 2023

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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models  —  Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
Gene Meyer / Eugene L. Meyer:
A Washington Post alumnus who took a 2003 buyout shares rumors that 2023 cuts will end all local columns and that half the education reporters are leaving  —  John Kelly — my friend, neighbor, and former editor on the Weekend section of The Washington Post -is taking a buyout.
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
The EU Parliament decides not to ban geo-blocking for films and TV content, after 600+ companies, including sports leagues, signed a letter opposing the ban  —  Parliament opted to further assess the potential impact of a geo-blocking ban, which the audio-visual industry claims …
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Fox News shakes up its executive structure, including making Porter Berry Fox News Digital's EIC and changing oversight of Fox Nation and Fox Business Network  —  Fox Corporation's Fox News Media has promoted five of its executives to new roles within the division.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
At a UK hearing, BBC Chair Samir Shah discusses Gary Lineker's recent X posts, saying that repeated rows over them does “damage to the reputation” of the BBC  —  The BBC's incoming chairman has yet to step foot on the corporation's premises, but he has already waded into his first scandal.
Katie Campione / Deadline:
Analysis: Netflix's H1 2023 viewership report gives an insight into its renewals and cancellations, the Top 100 list is dominated by original content, and more  —  - Netflix Viewership Data Highlights: What The New Report Does — And Doesn't — Reveal About Streamer's Performance
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times:
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting disinformation created with AI startups' cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections  —  Ahead of South Asian nation going to the polls in January, AI-generated disinformation has become a growing problem
Ruth Michaelson / The Guardian:
A profile of Plestia Alaqad, one of several nontraditional journalists with large Instagram followings who have documented the Israel-Hamas war from inside Gaza  —  Plestia Alaqad went from Instagrammer to reporter after her footage of Israel's assault on besieged enclave went viral
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Fantasy novelist Cait Corrain admits to creating fake Goodreads accounts to sabotage other novelists via negative reviews, citing a “breakdown”, and apologizes
David Ingram / NBC News:
Media Matters sues Texas AG Ken Paxton in federal court, saying Paxton violated the First Amendment by opening a probe into Media Matters' reporting about X
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023