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8:35 AM ET, March 18, 2024

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Max Tani / Semafor:
Few news outlets seek hard hitting pieces that confront power due to the legal climate, business relationship concerns, online news outlets' downfall, and more  —  There's too much to read and watch, too many places to read and watch it.  It's enough to distract you from the biggest news …
Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
DirecTV introduces a “No Locals” package, which allows customers to opt out of receiving their local TV stations and receive discounts of $12 per month  —  Subscribers would get $12 discount if they opt out  —  DirecTV said it would be allowing customers to opt out of receiving …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
The BBC and Amazon Music partner to release ad-supported BBC podcasts on the streaming service for the first time outside of the UK  —  Subscribers to Amazon's Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited services can “exclusively access a curated suite of over 50 of the BBC's most popular podcasts ad-free.”
Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone:
Inside generative AI music startup Suno, whose model can compose songs, including human vocals, using a text prompt, as Suno aims to “democratize” music making  —  Suno wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs — but what does that mean for artists?
Eric Deggans / NPR:
Q&A with political reporter Amy Chozick on co-creating Max series The Girls on the Bus based on her book Chasing Hillary, fictionalizing the election, and more  —  The first question I have for Amy Chozick, an executive producer and co-creator of the new Max series The Girls on the Bus, is a simple one.
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Q&A with CBS' George Cheeks on choosing which shows to put on Paramount+ or broadcast, rethinking the show development cycle, developing franchises, and more  —  The failure of Hollywood studios to strike a timely deal with writers and actors last summer meant the traditional fall TV season was canceled in 2023.
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Lessons learned from the 77-page letter sent to Axel Springer by a lawyer for Neri Oxman, whose MIT thesis faced scrutiny for plagiarism in a BI investigation  —  Last fall, as then-Harvard president Claudine Gay was facing her first allegations of plagiarism, the Clare Locke law firm sent …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Two British YouTubers dupe Tucker Carlson into interviewing a fake Kensington Palace whistleblower about Kate Middleton's doctored image  —  Tucker Carlson has been pranked over Kate Middleton's infamous edited photo.  —  The former Fox News anchor was duped by British YouTubers Josh & Archie …
 
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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn't a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino's thankless task of trying to assure brands
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal
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CPJ calls on Pakistan authorities to release journalist Asad Ali Toor, return his devices, and cease harassing him for his work; he was arrested February 26
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