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Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: the Harris-Trump debate drew ~67.14M US viewers across multiple networks, almost 16M more viewers than the final Biden-Trump debate in June — That number was up 31% from the 51.266 million who tuned in to Trump's debate with president Joe Biden (from CNN) in June, before the latter dropped out to endorse Harris.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
How Linsey Davis and David Muir firmly pursued real-time fact-checking to build guardrails around Trump in the ABC News debate between Trump and Harris — Calmly and firmly, Linsey Davis and David Muir pursued the kind of real-time fact-checking missing from many previous debates.
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Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
Oahu Publications, which owns Hawaii newspapers, is using AI-generated newscasters on the YouTube and Instagram channels of The Garden Island, launched in 1902 — A company that owns several newspapers in Hawaii is using AI-generated newscasters to create video news segments against the wishes …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed down over 10% after Trump's debate with Harris, ending at their lowest level since they began publicly trading — The share price of Trump Media plunged more than 13% on Wednesday, a day after majority shareholder Donald Trump gave …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes' unionized editorial staff passes a vote of no confidence in CEO Mike Federle and chief content officer Randall Lane, over pay issues and more — The unionized editorial staff of Forbes, represented by The NewsGuild of New York, has overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon's Prime Video adds AI-driven “Prime Insights”, expands interactive ad formats, and adds 50 new brands as advertisers for Thursday Night Football — As it gets ready to kick off its third season of exclusive streams of Thursday Night Football, Prime Video is rolling …
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Calum Jaspan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Nine CEO Mike Sneesby steps down and will depart the company at the end of September after over three years in the role; CFO Matt Stanton is named interim CEO — Nine chief executive Mike Sneesby will depart the company at the end of September after 3½ years in the role.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed — Bluesky, the social networking startup now nearing 10 million users thanks to X's ban in Brazil, will now allow users to share videos …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: a group led by Dovid Efune, conservative publisher of The New York Sun, bids for The Telegraph; source: backers include Oaktree and Hudson Bay Capital — The Scoop — A group of North American financiers led by a low-profile, British-born conservative publisher have emerged …
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Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz:
Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio streamer called Spoon and a short video app called Vigloo, raised ~$89.3M from PUBG publisher Krafton — It's the firm's largest investment in a non-gaming area to date — PUBG firm Krafton has invested KRW 120 billion ($89.3 million) in streaming company Spoon Labs.
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Thomas Baekdal / Baekdal:
Affiliate links are no longer an easy revenue source for news publishers, as Google downranks product recommendations from non-specialized outlets — This is an archived version of a Baekdal/Basic newsletter (it's free). It is sent out about once per week and features the latest articles …
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@danackerman, @mediaevan and @risj_oxford
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
A group of Democratic senators asks the FTC and DOJ to probe whether AI tools that summarize online content like news may amount to anticompetitive practices — A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize …
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U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, UPI, @bishplsok, @shadowhaxor, @leftcoastbabe, News/Media Alliance, Raptive and Axios
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage” — Google's tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that's largely a testament …
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