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Max Tani / Semafor:
The Wall Street Journal EIC Emma Tucker says she felt vindicated by the debate, after previously facing criticism for coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity — The News — Prominent liberal columnists are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside following a widely-panned debate performance …
Reuters:
In a parliamentary hearing, Meta says it is considering blocking news content from Facebook in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees …
The Guardian:
Three journalists were turned away from an Azerbaijan energy conference earlier in June, prompting concern over media access ahead of UN climate talks there — Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Spain's El Pais launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers — “The best reader is the one who reads you a lot.” — For years and with various levels of success, U.S. news outlets have tried …
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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.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
The White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference in August to “emphasize the Administration's commitment to creators” — President Joe Biden's administration is doubling down on its interest in the creator economy.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
CNN says the Biden-Trump debate was watched by nearly 48M viewers, based on early Nielsen Fast National numbers, with 12.6M in the key 25-54 age demographic — The early results are in, and CNN appeared to be the biggest winner from Thursday's train wreck of a presidential debate.
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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 …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sources: Tom Ortenberg and Briarcliff Entertainment are pushing to acquire The Apprentice for US release, negotiating with Kinematics, backed by Dan Snyder — “The Apprentice,” a dramatized origin story about Donald J. Trump, has faced fierce criticism from the former president and his allies.
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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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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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