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7:20 AM ET, May 6, 2024

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Wall Street Journal:
Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named  —  ABC News President Kim Godwin stepped down Sunday night, months after a corporate restructuring that effectively stripped away much of her management autonomy.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are  —  I stopped by Joe Kahn's modest office in the New York Times newsroom Thursday to ask him what some of his readers want to know …
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Twitch streamers are growing their audiences as they stream student protests, and some viewers and protesters see them as more trustworthy than traditional news  —  Live-streamers are amassing audiences through real-time coverage of student encampments and police crackdowns.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal control of his business  —  The dominant YouTuber MrBeast is parting ways with his high-profile talent management company.  —  Jimmy Donaldson …
Discussion: @maxwelltani
Reuters:
Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order  —  Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday following a government decision …
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI “virtual voice”, saving authors hundreds or thousands of dollars per title on narration costs  —  While authors appreciate the new revenue stream, audiobook listeners are complaining about the influx of new material
Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place  —  Gaza is one of the deadliest places in the world to be a journalist, according to Reporters Without Borders
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Some publishers plan to keep testing Google's Privacy Sandbox but won't allocate further resources to it, as Google delays cookie deprecation from Chrome again  —  Publishers could see the writing on the wall when it came to Google's announcement that it was delaying cookie deprecation from Chrome yet again.
Yun Li / CNBC:
Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold its entire Paramount stake and “lost quite a bit of money”; Berkshire owned 63.3M shares of Paramount as of the end of 2023  —  WATCH NOW  —  Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold its entire Paramount stake and ‘lost quite a bit of money’
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Chinese-owned media stopped submissions to Asia's highest-profile journalism prize SOPA due to Chinese government pressure to avoid foreign “collusion”  —  Outlets stop SOPA submissions under pressure to avoid foreign ‘collusion’  —  Nationalists have attacked Chinese media …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web  —  X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.
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Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming
 
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In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition