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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 …
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.
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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
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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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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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
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
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.
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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.
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.
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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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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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