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RISJ's 2024 Digital News Report with a survey of 90K+: six platforms, like TikTok, reach 10%+ of respondents for news use, compared to just two a decade ago — This year's report comes at a time when around half the world's population have been going to the polls in national and regional elections …
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A look at news influencers in the US, the UK, and France: a majority are mainstream journalists in the UK, much higher YouTube use for news in the US, and more — News influencer trend well-developed in US, but in UK mainstream brands and journalists leave less of a gap.
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Reuters Institute
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Reuters Institute: the share of people who say they sometimes or often actively avoid the news reached 39%, up 10 percentage points from 2017
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Inside Radio
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Survey: 52% of US and 63% of UK respondents say they would be uneasy with news produced mostly using AI; 59% worry about false news content online, up 3% YoY
Survey: 52% of US and 63% of UK respondents say they would be uneasy with news produced mostly using AI; 59% worry about false news content online, up 3% YoY
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A profile of The Washington Post CEO Will Lewis, once one of the UK's most feted journalists, and a look at the many compromises he's made in pursuit of power — DON'T STOP ME NOW — Lewis, the embattled CEO of the Washington Post, has long sought power and success.
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Former WaPo Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr is now overseeing the paper's coverage of the controversies around CEO Will Lewis and next editor Rob Winnett — Update: Former WashPost Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr is now overseeing the paper's coverage of the controversies besetting publisher Will Lewis and his pick as its next editor, Rob Winnett.
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A look at AP Corporate Archives, launched in 2003 to preserve the organization's history and since then expanded with initiatives like an oral history program — Two decades ago, The Associated Press set out to preserve the organization's history. What it created is an archive that sheds light …
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@niemanreports
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Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more — TV isn't just competing with Netflix for your time — it needs to beat TikTok, too. … Today, I'm talking with Anjali Sud, the CEO of Tubi.
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@reckless1280@threads.net, @hi.im.vijay@threads.net, @anjsud and r/television
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Study: anonymous pro-Russian actors are barraging journalists in Europe with fake news, in an effort to overwhelm fact checkers and amplify fake narratives — A new report says that the scheme also seeks to amplify certain fake narratives by having reporters publish their debunks and share them far and wide.
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Check First
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Dow Jones and the union that represents journalists at WSJ, Barron's, and MarketWatch reach a tentative agreement on a four-year deal after a year of bargaining — The union that represents journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch and parent company Dow Jones & Co. announced Monday …
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@natalieandrews, @katie_robertson, @gzuckerman, MediaPost and IAPE 1096
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TikTok expands its Symphony generative AI ad suite with dubbing, stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors, and custom Avatars resembling specific creators — TikTok is introducing some new generative AI tools that aim to help organizations and content creators grow their global audiences …
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TikTok, Digital Trends, MediaPost, TechCrunch and The Drum, more at Techmeme »
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Sources: 25 unionized staffers at The Daily Beast took buyouts, equivalent to ~70% of the guild, including almost all of the outlet's senior staffers — The Daily Beast is gutting its senior editorial team after implementing voluntary buyouts last month, with nearly 70% of unionized staffers leaving the outlet, TheWrap has learned.
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@nataliekorach and @willsommer
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The Cannes Lions ad festival adds humor as an award category, highlighting the importance of a “human connection” in ads, as AI struggles to create funny ads — New humour category highlights ‘human connection’ in a sector beset by a crisis in creativity
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YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English — YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos …
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MEDIANAMA, YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, @carnage4life@mas.to, BGR, @carnage4life, @_jaybaxter_, @vitalikbuterin, @liahaberman, @cb_doge, Gizmodo, @youtubeliaison, @_jaybaxter_, @crimson_mayhem_, @_jaybaxter_, @_jaybaxter_, @thisistechtoday, The Wrap, Washington Examiner, Quartz, The Hollywood Reporter and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »