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A.J. Perez / Front Office Sports:
The Arena Group tells Sports Illustrated staff that it will be “laying off staff that work on the SI brand” since Authentic Brands revoked the SI license  —  Staffers at Sports Illustrated were notified on Friday of massive layoffs—some immediately, others in short time.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
An interview with DDoSecrets' Emma Best, on the site's funding, handling potential lawsuits, and the Greenhouse Project, which distributes censored news  —  In November, Reuters published a special investigative feature headlined, “How an Indian startup hacked the world.”
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
A grand jury in New Mexico indicts Alec Baldwin on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of a cinematographer on the set of “Rust” in 2021  —  A grand jury in New Mexico indicted the actor in the shooting death of the cinematographer on the film “Rust,” …
Christine Zhu / Politico:
The Los Angeles Times Guild staged the paper's first newsroom union work stoppage on January 19 to protest planned job cuts, with 300+ members participating  —  It's the first newsroom union work stoppage for the publication in its 142-year history.  —  Over 300 members of the Los Angeles …
Christopher Miller / Financial Times:
Ukrainian media association Mediarukh urges President Zelenskyy to “resolutely condemn” attacks and smear campaigns targeting prominent Ukrainian journalists  —  Online and physical attacks on journalists cast shadow on president's rule  —  A series of attacks …
Rick Reger / Local News Initiative:
The bipartisan Illinois Local Journalism Task Force recommends tax credits, exemptions, and more to boost local media; the state lost 232 newspapers since 2005  —  Illinois task force suggests tax credits, incentives, other steps to boost local journalism  —  The bipartisan Illinois Local …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ampere: the number of scripted series in the US fell 24% YoY to 481 in 2023; subscription streamers released 77 fewer seasons and broadcast TV 55 fewer seasons  —  Scripted TV output in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2023, thanks to a combination of twin Hollywood strikes and a pullback on content spending …
 
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Joanne Wallenstein / Scarsdale:
Scarsdale Inquirer, a community newspaper based in Scarsdale, New York, announces that it has suspended publication after publishing weekly for 123 years
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google says it is not “boosting” AI-written articles as the 404 reporter sorted news by date rather than relevance, and there is no “free pass” to AI content
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Author Rie Kudan, this year's winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, reveals that ~5% of her book “quoted verbatim the sentences generated by” ChatGPT
Doug Faulkner / BBC:
Prince Harry withdraws his libel lawsuit against Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers, over a 2022 article about his fight against the UK Home Office
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