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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Will Lewis repeatedly offered an exclusive interview about WaPo's future, in exchange for dropping a story on claims he helped cover up UK phone hacking scandal — The Washington Post has written twice this spring about allegations that have cropped up in British court proceedings involving its new publisher and CEO, Will Lewis.
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Washington Post:
Will Lewis criticizes reports that he tried to suppress stories on his ties to a phone hacking case and calls David Folkenflik an activist, not a journalist — In a statement Thursday, William Lewis pushes back at media outlets' accounts of events leading up to Post editor Sally Buzbee's abrupt departure on Sunday.
New York Times:
Sources: Washington Post CEO Will Lewis criticized Sally Buzbee's judgment in publishing a May 2024 article about a UK phone-hacking lawsuit that involved him
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his personal assets to pay Sandy Hook families under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, in a move that could end his ownership of Infowars — Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families …
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Mediaite, Reuters, Rolling Stone and @_L1vY_@mstdn.social
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Twitch announces a program that lets DJs use copyrighted music in their streams by paying a fee; Twitch signed deals with UMG, WMG, Sony Music, and indie labels — Livestreaming platform Twitch announced a new program aimed at DJs today that will allow creators to use copyrighted music in their streams by paying a fee.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix is testing a homepage redesign on its TV app, replacing static tiles showing shows and movies with boxes that extend when the remote lands on them — Netflix is testing a big homepage redesign on its TV app. The new look replaces the static tiles containing the shows and movies …
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CNET, Reuters, BGR, 9to5Mac, Kelly Shuster on LinkedIn, Anna Zvagelskaya on LinkedIn and Gizmodo
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data — ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang — Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Amazon acquires Indian video streaming service MX Player's key assets from Times Internet, a source says valuing MX at <$100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 — Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet …
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MEDIANAMA, The Information and Aniruddha Jaju on LinkedIn, more at Techmeme »
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
SiriusXM will launch Mediaite's Press Club, a weekly show on events and people in media and politics, on June 8, hosted by Mediaite Editor Aidan McLaughlin — Several upstarts are trying to take advantage of it. — SiriusXM will launch “Mediaite's Press Club,” a new weekly hour-long show …
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The Desk, @aidnmclaughlin, Radio Ink, @bristei and Mediaite
Samanth Subramanian / Wired:
Q&A with Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins on how being declared a foreign agent by Russia has affected his work, helping lawyers use open source evidence, and more — Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits …
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@wired, Nathan May on LinkedIn, @wired, @glocalreporting and Jonathan Luff on LinkedIn
OPB:
Rachel Smolkin, SVP of global news for CNN Digital, is leaving to become president and CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting — today announced that Rachel Smolkin has been chosen as the next president and chief executive officer, bringing a veteran journalist focused on changing audience needs to lead the organization.
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New York Times:
A look at the now-shuttered news site BNN Breaking, which former staff say mostly published AI-generated content; Microsoft had licensed BNN content for MSN.com — The news was featured on MSN.com: “Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.”
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@kashhill, @tessasproule@threads.net, @structstories and The Desk
CNN:
The WSJ article on Biden's mental acuity relies largely on comments from Republican sources and Kevin McCarthy, who praised Biden's performance a year prior — The Wall Street Journal owes its readers — and the public — better. — The business broadsheet published and hyped …
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