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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: The New York Times is working to move its top podcasts behind a paywall, with the goal of eventually tying most, if not all, to a subscription service — Publisher plans to limit access to shows like ‘Serial’ to subscribers, cap number of free episodes of ‘The Daily’
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NBC News:
Julian Assange pleads guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the US, letting him go free after spending five years in a British prison — The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside London for the last five years and fought extradition to the United States.
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Trevor Timm / The Guardian:
Assange's plea deal doesn't create an official precedent, but he still had to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act for a “crime” outlets commit regularly — Instead of just dropping the case, the Biden administration got a guilty plea and set a dangerous tone for reporters everywhere
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Associated Press is launching The AP Fund for Journalism, an independent 501(c)3 charitable organization to raise $100M+ to expand state and local news — - “It will help to sustain what we do, grow what we do, and add new and incremental journalism services for the industry," Veerasingham told Axios in an interview.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MTV appears to have fully pulled down MTV News website, scrubbing two decades' worth of content from its archives; Paramount Global shut down MTV News in 2023 — Some two decades' worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on updating the company's famous culture memo, its advertising ambitions, bundling, game streaming, AI use cases, and more — The co-CEO who replaced co-founder Reed Hastings details the company's new culture memo, its ad ambitions, and what's next for Netflix.
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Business Insider, Next TV, Variety and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
Raphael Minder / Financial Times:
Polish state energy group Orlen plans to sell its media company Polska Press, acquired under the former right-wing government, to show political independence — Orlen's acquisition of newspaper business under former rightwing government has drawn criticism
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Oliver Wiseman / The Free Press:
Former NPR editor Uri Berliner, who wrote a Free Press essay criticizing NPR, is joining The Free Press as senior editor, after resigning from NPR in April — Is dropshipping a scam? Why did Niall Ferguson's debut Free Press column provoke so many responses? Why are Americans divided on foreign policy?
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Fact checkers at UK news agency PA Media and Full Fact say AI content has proved less problematic than expected so far during the country's general election — Fact checkers spending more time on verifying claims made by politicians than on fake AI-generated content.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies — Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models.
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
The RIAA files two copyright-infringement cases against the AI music services Suno and Udio; Udio was used to create the viral song BBL Drizzy
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Mark Trevelyan / Reuters:
Evan Gershkovich will stand trial for espionage on Wednesday in closed-door proceedings, meaning no reporters, friends, or family will be allowed — U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial for espionage in Russia on Wednesday in a court whose proceedings are classified as a state secret.
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Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Create Music Group, which operates a record label, distribution company, and entertainment network, raised $165M led by Flexpoint Ford at a $1B valuation — Create says money will help fuel growth in scale and its global acquisition strategy
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Digital Music News, Billboard and Create Music Group
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Smashing, a content recommendation app that uses AI to offer news summaries and key excepts, launches into an invite-only beta with $3.4M in seed funding — Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler is back to build the next big app community. But this time, his focus isn't on books …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CNN is in charge of every aspect of Thursday's Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years; rival channels will leave CNN's on-air watermark untouched — One network is in charge of every aspect of the Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years. Tens of millions of viewers are expected to be watching.
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Filing: Vivek Ramaswamy's BuzzFeed stake grew to 8.9%; sources: Ramaswamy recently met Jonah Peretti and wants Patrick Bet-David and two others on the board — - Ramaswamy has continued to increase his stake, this morning disclosing that it's risen to 8.9%.
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