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Washington Post:
WaPo and The News Movement, in which Will Lewis holds a stake, agreed in recent months to pursue brand partnerships; TNM made two major pitches involving WaPo — William Lewis holds a stake in a start-up that has reached a deal with The Post to collaborate.
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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 …
Elizabeth Djinis / Poynter:
How local nonprofit newsrooms Mountain State Spotlight, Outlier Media, and Signal Ohio are serving their communities, and what they need to continue their work — These organizations are revolutionizing journalism at every level: how they are funded, how they write their stories and even how they find them.
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@nickpozek, @poynter, @poynter and @susanmcp1
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
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 …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix has discussed creating free versions of its service in some markets, namely in Europe and Asia, but is not considering a free plan in the US — While Netflix is the biggest streaming service in Hollywood, it is barely in the top 10 for advertisers.
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Q&A with Don Klees, Acorn TV SVP of programming, and Courtney Thomasma, AMC Networks EVP of streaming, on Acorn TV's success, FAST channel potential, and more — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more — How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now. … Anne Aaron just can't help herself.
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 …
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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
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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.
Kate Irwin / PCMag:
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” — OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about AI's impact on creative professions.
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Anna Washenko / Ars Technica:
A history of text games and interactive fiction, from Infocom to 80 Days, and the roles of MUDs, Usenet, and open source in the 50 years of interactive fiction — MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history. — You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
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
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books — Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library. — As a result of book publishers successfully suing …
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