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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
UK-based Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry adapts to the end of third-party cookies — Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from phase out of cross-website trackers
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Financial Times:
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool — Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times Microsoft is working with media start …
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Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries — The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork by absorbing its creative teams and trying to fit it into the audience-driven terms of programmatic ad sales — The News — In 2015, Condé Nast was nearing a deal to buy the music site Pitchfork, its first major editorial acquisition in years.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Last week's earnings showed signs of an ad market turnaround, with Meta's ad sales up 24% YoY, Amazon's ad business growing 27%, and Google's ad business up 11% — - The digital advertising market appears to be on the upswing based on quarterly results last week from Alphabet, Meta and Amazon.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Politico reshuffles its six-strong London Playbook newsletters team ahead of an expected UK general election; Politico's UK staff has grown 3x since Dec. 2022 — Politico has more than tripled its London staffing since December 2022. — Politico has reshuffled the six-strong team writing …
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Politico:
Mayor of Dearborn says police increased their presence as a “direct result” of a WSJ opinion piece that described the Michigan city as “America's jihad capital” — The move is in response to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. — DEARBORN, Mich. — Dearborn …
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Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: the 66th annual Grammys hit an average 16.9M viewers, up 34% YoY, across CBS, Paramount+, CBS.com, and the CBS app; Paramount+ streams were up 173% YoY — The 66th annual Grammy Awards took a fast car towards ratings success on Sunday, bringing in an average 16.9 million viewers …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge finds WBD didn't overstate HBO Max streaming subscriber numbers prior to its 2022 merger and dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit from investors — Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) on Monday won the dismissal of a proposed class action led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost …
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Financial Times:
Sources: the UK shelved plans to publish rules on the training of AI models using copyrighted material, after artists and tech groups failed to agree terms — Government-led talks stall as artists and tech groups fail to agree terms over access to copyrighted work
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Bloomberg, Mark Lewis on LinkedIn and Antreas Athanassopoulos on LinkedIn, more at Techmeme »
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US federal judge sets the trial for the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business to begin on September 9, 2024 — A U.S. federal judge on Monday set a Sept. 9, 2024, date for the start of a jury trial in a lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition …
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Chris McGreal / The Guardian:
Sources describe internal discontent about CNN's Gaza coverage and complaints about editorial policies preferring Israeli claims over Palestinian perspectives — Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Eurovision organizer European Broadcasting Union launches Eurovision Sport, a free streaming service to complement public service broadcasters' coverage — A free direct-to-consumer service offering thousands of hours live sports broadcasting, the streamer is available for desktop, mobile and both ioS and Android apps.
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TVBEurope, Cord Cutters News, Associated Press, Broadband TV News, WORLD SCREEN, Deadline and BNN Breaking
Lachlan Cartwright / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN revamps its morning schedule, moving up News Central to 7am ET; This Morning moves to Atlanta, Phil Mattingly and Poppy Harlow will move to new roles — The show's 50-person team have been told they can reapply for jobs within the network, according to the people familiar.
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