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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
MSNBC pulls Morning Joe on Monday, a source says due to worries that a guest might make an inappropriate comment about Donald Trump's attempted assassination — New York CNN — — MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets — Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
A look at the coverage of the assassination attempt on Trump, including top networks and outlets providing hours of reporting with no errors or controversies — The Associated Press photographer who made the now-famous photo said he never thought about the danger of the moment. He was too caught up in his job.
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints — The News — President Joe Biden has lost the media. Even the most sympathetic outlets — the liberal MSNBC, the gentle NPR …
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The Guardian, Mediaite and @jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social
David Hellier / Bloomberg:
Source: the board of France's Ligue de Football Professionnel backed a deal with Dazn and the Qatari sports broadcaster beIN to screen live matches this season — France's elite professional football league backed a broadcast deal with Len Blavatnik's streaming group Dazn Group Ltd …
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Broadband TV News and Advanced Television
Jason Parham / Wired:
Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more — Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, is unsentimental about what's at stake if we don't curb the spread …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more — She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election — - While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
A look at Long Lead, a “story studio” for freelance journalists to publish longform, multimedia projects that makes almost no revenue and is funded by a VC firm — US in-depth reporting outlet Long Lead is rich in praise for its journalism but yet to make any money.
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@bp22, @pressgazette and @pressgazette
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content — A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …
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Anuj Ahooja / augment:
Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform — It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
Associated Press:
A judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after ruling prosecutors withheld evidence — A New Mexico judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin in the middle of his trial and said it cannot be filed again.
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