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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
The WHCA says it is “deeply concerned” that CNN blocked repeated requests to let the White House travel pool in studio for tonight's presidential debate — scoop: The White House Correspondents' Association says it's “deeply concerned” that CNN “has rejected our repeated requests to include the White House travel pool inside the studio.” The full statement: [image]
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@cbcpac:
The head of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC calls on CNN to give credentials to Black-owned media outlets for tonight's debate; none were credentialed so far — Full statement from @RepGregoryMeeks: [image]
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
CNN responds to the WHCA on debate access: the print pool reporter gets studio access at the first ad break, and a tight pool of photographers gets full access — In a statement, CNN responded to concerns from the WHCA on press access to the debate room. The network says the “debate is being held without an audience in a CNN studio and is closed to press.” [image]
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The Wrap, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Tests show that ChatGPT is hallucinating URLs in some citations, directing users to broken links for at least 10 news publications with OpenAI licensing deals — Nieman Lab's tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.
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Engadget, @jaredlholt, @decka227, @adamjohnsonchi, @researchbuzz@researchbuzz … and @christianschwaegerl …
Bloomberg:
Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M — - Online comics company's first-time share sale priced at top — Firm sees growth beyond Korea coming from Japan, France
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Forbes, Reuters, Crunchbase News, @nasdaqexchange and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
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Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B
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BBC, Yahoo Finance, Publishing Perspectives, WEBTOON, @lucas_shaw, @nasdaqexchange, Fast Company, KED Global and Reuters
Laurel Rosenhall / Los Angeles Times:
The California State Senate passes SB 1327, a bill aimed at imposing a “data extraction mitigation fee” on Big Tech to help fund local journalism — The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Neil Griffiths / Mumbrella:
Nine CEO tells staff that around 200 jobs, ~4% of its workforce, will be cut, including up to 90 roles from Publishing and 38 from news and current affairs — Up to 200 jobs are set to be made redundant at Nine as soon as Friday. — Nine Entertainment CEO Mike Sneesby notified staff of the move …
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Sydney Morning Herald, AdNews News, @colonelhogans, @meadea, @therealpbarry, @calumjaspan_, Mediaweek, @maxwalden_, @anguslivingston, Capital Brief and TV Tonight
Margaret Fleming / Front Office Sports:
A Los Angeles jury sides against the NFL in a Sunday Ticket antitrust trial, saying the league owes $4.7B+ to subscribers and $96M to bars and restaurants — A jury in Los Angeles sided against the NFL on Thursday in the Sunday Ticket trial that could cost the league billions.
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Awful Announcing, The Wrap, Associated Press, Reuters, Variety, New York Times, Ad Age, The Desk, @meghanncuniff, Awful Announcing, Los Angeles Times, Next TV, CBS News, Fox Business, The Verge, ESPN, NBCSports.com, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, Sportico, @loudmouthjulia, Cord Cutters News, @eriqgardner, @eriqgardner, @meghanncuniff, @meghanncuniff, Media Play News, TVNewsCheck and Deadline
Associated Press:
The Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal, has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Microsoft, saying OpenAI violated copyrights — The Center for Investigative Reporting said Thursday it has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its closest business partner, Microsoft …
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Engadget, The Wrap, Al Jazeera and The Hollywood Reporter
Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so — AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
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@timmarchman, @sarahnemerson, @laurengoode, @crumbler@threads.net, @dmehro, The Verge, TechCrunch and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Comcast is adding the sports-focused Fubo app to supported Xfinity Flex, Xumo TV, and Xumo Stream boxes — Customers of Comcast's broadband product Xfinity Internet now have access to sports-centric streaming service Fubo on the company's lased streaming boxes.
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Cord Cutters News, Next TV, The Streamable and Media Play News
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:
Seven nonprofits including the Freedom of the Press Foundation file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional — A group of nonprofits argued in a legal filing that the federal law requiring TikTok's parent company to sell the platform …
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