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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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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Nightshade, a free tool that lets artists “poison” AI models being trained on their artwork without permission, is now available to download for Mac and PC  —  It's here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” …
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
How a cascade of media failures led to misleadingly truncated quotes from Israeli officials about Gaza being cited in the BBC, NPR, The New York Times, and more  —  Journalists and jurists point to damning quotes from Israel's war cabinet as evidence of genocidal intent.  But the citations are not what they seem.
Liam Scott / Voice of America:
CPJ: China leads the world in imprisoned media workers; of the 44 journalists imprisoned in the country in 2023, 19 are Uyghurs  —  Nearly half of the 44 journalists imprisoned in China in 2023 were Uyghurs, according to a report released Thursday.  —  Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists …
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Reuters' worldwide deletion of an article due to an Indian court order raises the issue of “forum shopping” by libel plaintiffs in a globalized news environment  —  Free speech on the internet took a huge hit when the news agency Reuters took down an important hacking investigation …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
In an unpublished manuscript, David Bunnell, who co-founded PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, details the origins of the enduring media brands from the 1980s  —  Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn't create the idea of computer magazines.  But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business.
Sam Potter / Bloomberg:
An interview with crypto skeptic James Block, whose damning critique of Signature Bank on his newsletter, Dirty Bubble Media, became the best short call of 2023  —  - Doctor whose hobby is debunking crypto made top bearish call  — Report on Signature Bank appeared two months before collapse
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How Business Insider UK became one of the country's biggest business news brands by audience, growing its newsroom from 7 in 2014 to 70 journalists now  —  Business Insider UK bureau chief and deputy executive editor say brand has got more creative and mature.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
After concerns about Trump ally David Smith's purchase of The Baltimore Sun, a partner in the deal says personal politics would not affect The Sun's journalism  —  The news that David D. Smith, the executive chairman of the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, had bought The Sun has generated alarm inside and outside the newsroom.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
An interview with The Guardian US director of consumer revenue about how the publisher raised a record $2.2M in its 2023 year-end fundraiser  —  Roughly one-third of all digital reader revenue at The Guardian now comes from the United States.  —  Earlier this month, The Guardian U.S. announced …
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 …
 
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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
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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
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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
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
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% YoY to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources say the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M

 
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