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New York Times:
A former colleague and records indicate WaPo's Will Lewis and Robert Winnett used fraudulently obtained records in Sunday Times articles in the early 2000s — Years before becoming the Post's publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said.
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Washington Post:
Sources reveal alleged ties of incoming WaPo editor Robert Winnett to a PI who worked for The Sunday Times, from deceptively obtained material to legal help — Unpublished book drafts and other documents raise questions about Robert Winnett's journalistic record just months before he is to assume a top newsroom role.
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New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos appears to be standing by Publisher and CEO Will Lewis and has envisioned WaPo growing to reach 100M subscribers from its current 2.5M
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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
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 — Global concerns about the use of AI in news production and misinformation are growing, a report published by the Reuters Institute …
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Pixar's Inside Out 2 grosses $155M in the US and Canada, 2024's biggest opening weekend, and $295M globally, the biggest in history for an animated film — - Animated sequel tops ‘Dune: Part Two’ for 2024's highest bow — Opening is boon for theaters and for Disney's rebounding Pixar
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Jack Herrera / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of Lorena López, the founder and editor of La Prensa de Iowa, an improbably successful Spanish-language paper serving rural farm towns in western Iowa — At a Spanish-language newspaper in rural Iowa, Lorena López proves that the best counter to online misinformation is human connection.
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Media Voices, @andreafrantz221 and @jherrerx
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Mozilla acquires Anonym, a privacy-focused ad measurement startup launched by Meta executives in 2022, and will run Anonym as a separate business unit — Two years after leaving Meta to launch their own privacy-focused ad measurement startup in 2022, Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood have sold their company to Mozilla.
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads — Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don't always find it helpful.
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Bloomberg, @wired, Paresh Dave on LinkedIn and @jordannovet
New York Times:
Losing TNT's NBA broadcast rights would sting for WBD but would also save the company over $2B annually, which could be used to purchase other sports rights — The company's TNT channel and the N.B.A. have long been inextricably linked, but that may end after next season. Plus, Charles Barkley is retiring.
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New York Times, Barrett Media, Adweek, CNN, Awful Announcing, Associated Press and Variety
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A Texas federal jury orders Amazon to pay nearly $122M to adtech company AlmondNet for infringing on two patents related to personalized ad targeting — Amazon (AMZN.O) must pay nearly $122 million for violating another company's rights in targeted internet advertising technology, a Texas federal jury said on Friday.
Ari Saperstein / The Guardian:
How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators — Apple rolled out a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators. Why did it take so long?
John Branch / New York Times:
High-end outdoors print magazines like Adventure Journal and Mountain Gazette are thriving, often costing $25+ per issue and designed to be collectible — Titles like Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette, Summit Journal and Ori are aimed at “people who just don't want to be on their phones anymore.”
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@nbj914 and Riley Seebeck on LinkedIn
Adam Ganucheau / New York Times:
The defamation suit from former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant against Mississippi Today could become a political playbook to dismantle US press freedoms — Slow-moving lawsuits intended to drain newsrooms of their limited financial resources and editorial bandwidth.
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