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Casey Newton / Platformer:
AI search's arrival bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded — When Sundar Pichai took the stage at Google I/O on Tuesday morning, he said that the rise of generative artificial intelligence would provide …
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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Nielsen launches The Media Distributor Gauge, showing TV usage ranked by company: Disney accounted for 11.5% of TV viewing in April, YouTube accounted for 9.6% — Nielsen has launched a new tool to better monitor the ongoing streaming wars. Say hello to the Media Distributor Gauge …
Max Tani / Semafor:
NYT reporters are circulating a draft of an open letter to Joe Kahn, criticizing the editor over recent comments they said were dismissive of young reporters — New York Times reporters are circulating a draft of an open letter to Joe Kahn, criticizing the paper's top editor over comments they said were dismissive of young reporters.
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Clara Aberneithie / Press Gazette:
Interviews with journalists from BBC Russia, BBC Persia, and BBC Arabic about BBC World Service's 310 exiled journalists, fighting censorship, and more — How are BBC World Service stories reaching audiences in authoritarian states and how do journalists report when exiled?
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Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal:
Fake studies have flooded publishers of scientific journals, resulting in retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue; Wiley plans to close 19 journals — Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud — Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Streamers are ordering linear-esque content, like procedurals and sitcoms, with 15- or 16-episode seasons, as they seek to avoid churn and emulate broadcasters — There's a reason the most successful night of primetime used to be branded “Must See TV.” In the late 1990s, NBC's “ER” …
Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Canadian author Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 and was referred to as “a master of the contemporary short story”, dies at 92 — Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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Eight TikTok creators sue the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing the move violates their First Amendment rights — The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights.
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Ty Pendlebury / CNET:
Google unveils Music AI Sandbox, a suite of music tools that include the ability to create loops via text, without disclosing when it will be publicly available — Producers say the AI-generated loops can make music sound ‘more human.’ — Google has unveiled a new music-making tool …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Jimmy Finkelstein met with potential investors to drum up interest in a new venture, which is in the planning stages, after The Messenger's failure — MESSENGER, PT. DEUX — The 76-year-old media mogul is apparently looking to clear his name after The Messenger spectacularly flopped.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adam Mosseri says Threads “recently rolled out” its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months — Meta's newest social network, Threads is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months.
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Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
YouTube says it will comply with a Hong Kong court order to block 32 video links, after the government sought to ban the Glory to Hong Kong protest anthem — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) YouTube on Tuesday said it will comply with a Hong Kong court decision and block access to 32 video links deemed to be prohibited content.
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