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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts — Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.
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Spotify, Billboard, Filipe Roque on LinkedIn, 9to5Mac, Music Business Worldwide, @spotifynews, @carnage4life, @stufflistings, Music Ally, @scobleizer, Gautam Talwar on LinkedIn, Digital Music News, Steven Finch on LinkedIn, @tonyjebara, MediaPost, BGR, @cweichen, Variety, @eldsjal, Matt Cronin on LinkedIn, Jan-Paul Jeffrey on LinkedIn, CMU, Observer, Mashable, Tom's Guide, The Verge and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
How local US news outlets in the total solar eclipse's path are covering the event, using it as an opportunity to broaden their appeal beyond current audiences — “Celestial events tend to draw highly engaged audiences, and this one is no exception.” — Incarcerated New Yorkers facing a lockdown (and suing successfully against it).
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
LA Times names Terry Tang as executive editor, the first female editor in the paper's 142-year history; Tang has been interim executive editor since January — Terry Tang, who has been leading the Los Angeles Times newsroom since late January on an interim basis, has been formally named executive editor.
Clara Aberneithie / Press Gazette:
Former Business Insider EIC Jim Edwards and two others launch MoneyIn2, a personal finance brand on Substack, offering two minutes of information per day — MoneyIn2 hopes to tell those who don't yet have money how to make it. — Open publishing and newsletter technology has “opened the market” …
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@jim_edwards, @jim_edwards, Jim Edwards on LinkedIn and Talking Biz News
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK-based The News Movement's EIC and co-founder Kamal Ahmed leaves to join The Telegraph as director of audio, its second co-founder to leave in recent months — Ahmed, one of five co-founders of The News Movement, will co-host The Daily T with Camilla Tominey.
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@pressgazette, @beccahutson, @kamalahmednews, @pressgazette and @pressgazette
Max Kim / Los Angeles Times:
A look at South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's war on public broadcaster MBC and other media organizations in the name of fighting “fake news” — When police showed up last year at Im Hyun-ju's home in Seoul with a search warrant, the 43-year-old journalist watched in disbelief …
Discussion:
@maxsoeunkim, Fox News and New York Times
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Unionized workers at two Gannett outlets, the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, strike over stalled contract negotiations — Unionized workers at the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle are striking over stalled contract negotiations
Discussion:
@susandecarava, @poynter, MediaPost and The NewsGuild
Claire Atkinson / The Media Mix:
Sources: The Overseas Press Club is split about naming a new award after Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American journalist killed by an Israeli soldier — The Middle East conflict divides a group of international journalists. — The Overseas Press Club is at war over a new award for covering conflict.
Discussion:
@davidmcneill3, @lailaalarian, @rafat, @linaabuakleh, @lukeoneil47 and @freddydeknatel
Aymann Ismail / Slate:
Q&A with Ido David Cohen, who covers Israeli media for Haaretz, about the new law banning foreign networks like Al Jazeera, its impact on Israeli outlets, more — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be moving ahead with his pledge to ban Al Jazeera following the recent passage of a new law in the Israeli Knesset.
Washington Post:
Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media — When President Biden proposed an additional $24 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine in August, Moscow spin doctors working …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Irish entrepreneur Michael O'Rourke brings UK news and lifestyle newsbrand Joe Media out of administration in a £3.6M deal, after a similar rescue deal in 2020 — Joe.co.uk previously went into administration in June 2020 but continued to suffer “sustained losses”.
Discussion:
The Sunday Times
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
WBD sells the Roost, which produces and distributes podcasts from YouTube personalities, to Night, the talent management firm behind creators like MrBeast — - The Roost, with stars such as Theo Von, becomes part of firm — The podcast industry is undergoing a correction after a boom
Discussion:
@ashleyrcarman, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 100K+ items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions — By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding …
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, amid growth struggles in Europe — TikTok's growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it's rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos.
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The Hill, TechCrunch, @carnage4life@mas.to, @iatalkspace, Bloomberg, Politico, Mumbrella and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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