Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:30 AM ET, June 23, 2024

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Washington Post:
RELATED:
Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic:
Scrutiny of Will Lewis' past is essential because WaPo's credibility has been built upon readers' trust that its reporters don't engage in deceptive practices  —  The uproar over a publisher's ethics is a matter of survival.  —  Hours after my Washington Post colleagues and I published …
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
In an email to staff, Telegraph editor Chris Evans says Rob Winnett has decided to stay at Telegraph and will not join the Washington Post  —  Robert Winnett, hired by Washington Post publisher William Lewis, faced questions about his U.K. work, including stories based on stolen records.
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers  —  The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …
RELATED:
Tim Marchman / Wired:
Perplexity closely summarized a Wired story about Perplexity allegedly scraping parts of websites blocked by developers; experts are mixed on the legal impacts
Kate Irwin / PCMag:
RELATED:
Financial Times:
Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO  —  Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform's financial health has struggled
Discussion: Deadline and Breitbart
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
RedBird IMI kicks off the process to sell the Telegraph and Spectator, as it seeks to recoup the £600M spent on its attempt to take control of them last year  —  Second auction for newspaper group in a year begins days after publisher reveals £278mn black hole
Discussion: Telegraph and Reuters
Kevin Nguyen / The Verge:
Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media  —  For a crucial decade in print media's transition to the internet, HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones was a boon in traffic... for everyone.
Youssef Taha / BBC:
Iran's Supreme Court has overturned Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence for supporting anti-government protests and ordered a retrial, his lawyer says  —  A jailed Iranian rapper sentenced to death for supporting anti-government protests has had his sentence overturned on appeal by the Supreme Court, his lawyer has said.
Issie Lapowsky / Knight Foundation:
The Knight Foundation releases a report on its $107M+ in funding for digital media research, and how the research has impacted journalists, tech companies, more  —  Jeff Horwitz was chasing down a tip on Instagram last year when he stumbled on a particularly troubling finding.
Michael Schneider / Variety:
Jamie Kellner, who launched Fox and The WB, created Acme Communications stations group, and ran Turner Broadcasting as chairman and CEO, died on June 21 at 77  —  Jamie Kellner, who made his name as the only exec ever to create two broadcast networks — Fox and The WB (both of which also …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts a new Basic streaming plan in the US for $10.99/month, which includes all the benefits of Premium without the monthly audiobook listening time  —  Spotify is introducing a new “Basic” streaming plan in the United States, the company announced on Friday.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 12:30 AM ET, June 23, 2024.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Linda Tirado, the journalist blinded in one eye by Minneapolis police while covering a 2020 protest, is receiving palliative care as a result of the injury
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Las Vegas jury convicts five men for operating Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month and officials say was one of the largest illegal streamers in the US
 Earlier Picks: 
Lachlan Cartwright / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: The Daily Beast's DC bureau chief Martin Pengelly has quit five weeks after being hired; the outlet will lay off several non-guild employees next week
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Internal memo: ABC News Executive Editor Stacia Deshishku is leaving the network and her 35-year career in journalism
 

 
From Techmeme:

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page