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NABJ faces backlash after announcing Trump will be interviewed at its convention by ABC News' Rachel Scott, Fox News' Harris Faulkner, and Semafor's Kadia Goba — - President Biden addressed a joint NABJ and NAHJ conference virtually in 2020. — Hillary Clinton spoke at a joint conference between …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Internal memo: Norah O'Donnell plans to step down as CBS Evening News' anchor after the 2024 US presidential election and become a senior correspondent — Norah O'Donnell will cede the reins of the venerable “CBS Evening News” after the 2024 presidential election in favor of a new role …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast's NBCU expects to surpass $1.25B in ad sales tied to the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, setting a record in the history of the games — The Comcast-backed media conglomerate expects to win more than $1.25 billion in advertising tied to the big athletic extravaganza, a new high in terms of Madison Avenue backing.
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MediaPost, Deadline, The Wrap, Adweek, @bristei, Next TV, The Hollywood Reporter and The Media Leader
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Guardian Political Media Editor Jim Waterson and several other journalists plan to leave the Guardian after accepting voluntary redundancy packages — Guardian had been targeting cost savings of 4-5% this year. — The Guardian is to lose several prominent editorial staffers as it closes …
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@jackcarterbenjamin …, @alexschristian and @mrianleslie
Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World:
A profile of Bengaluru-based Pocket FM, which has 2,000+ audio shows with 10- to 15-minute episodes and is working with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio — Pocket FM is teaming up with U.S. text-to-speech app ElevenLabs to produce more shows for less time and money. — • MUMBAI, INDIA
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Interviews with Hollywood sound and picture editors, artists, and others detail their fears of AI replacing much of their work, despite a new IATSE contract — Actors and writers won strict limits on artificial intelligence in last year's contract negotiations, but other workers face a growing challenge.
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@noamscheiber, @ichbinilya and TVNewsCheck
ProPublica:
A look at Trump Media and Technology Group's potential conflict of interest involving a deal with a little-known streaming TV company tied to a big GOP donor — This month, former President Donald Trump's media company announced it was making its first major purchase: technology to help stream TV …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Alt-weeklies Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Riverfront Times are running seemingly AI-generated listicles about OnlyFans performers; OF says it's not involved — Beloved alt-weeklies like the Village Voice have started publishing what appears to be AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix files to raise $1.8B in a new debt offering, its first since the company was elevated to investment-grade status by Moody's and S&P Global in 2023 — The raise would be the company's first debt offering since being elevated to investment-grade status last year.
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Variety, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
Rachel Cooke / The Guardian:
A profile of Joshi Herrmann and his outlet Mill Media, which publishes local longform journalism in four UK cities via newsletters with 100K subscribers overall — Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised.
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The Mill, @michael@newsmast.social, @magstaylorish, @charliemoloney and @dhayes_news
Wall Street Journal:
How Elon Musk and X's division of labor stymied some of Linda Yaccarino's plans, like a Visa deal; internal figures show X had 250.8M DAUs in Q2, up 1.56% YoY — Tensions over the division of labor with Musk have stymied some of Yaccarino's initiatives — X Corp. Chief Executive Linda …
Kate Bartlett / Nieman Lab:
A look at South African investigative nonprofit amaBhungane, which helped oust the country's ex-president in 2018, and its efforts in a hostile media landscape — “I think the level of corruption and dysfunction and organized crime has grown. It's much harder to decide — given our limited resources — where we put our efforts."
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@humanityunited, @gijnafrica, @gijn, Semafor, UPI and @niemanlab@mastodon.social
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