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5:45 PM ET, June 25, 2024

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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’
Discussion: @balsam.bsky.social
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
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.
Raphael Minder / Financial Times:
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
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.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: BuzzFeed is struggling to sell Hot Ones owner First We Feast, which is profitable and has ~$30M revenue per year; interested parties balk at $70M price
 
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
ElevenLabs debuts its first iOS app, which turns any English-language text, including from PDFs and ePubs, into narrations by one of its “human-like voices”
Christina Couch / Nieman Lab:
Freelance writers, media producers, others sue the Department of Labor over new guidance for classifying independent contractors, saying it creates uncertainty
New York Times:
Sources: UK police saw Will Lewis as an impediment to their phone hacking investigation; plaintiffs say Lewis gave the “green light” to delete News Corp. emails
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Dave Collins / Associated Press:
A US bankruptcy court trustee discloses plans to shut down Infowars and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5B in lawsuit judgments that Alex Jones owes
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Prices of ad-free Paramount+ With Showtime plan will rise by $1 to $12.99/month, and of Paramount+ Essential plan with ads by $2 to $7.99, starting August 20
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Sony Pictures Networks India names Disney+ Hotstar content chief Gaurav Banerjee as its new Managing Director and CEO
Discussion: WORLD SCREEN and Variety