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Sources and records: Trump Media has forced out its COO, CPO, and other executives after internal allegations that CEO Devin Nunes is mismanaging the company — Several people involved with the former president's company, operator of Truth Social, believe the departures …
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
A study finds Australia has the second-highest media concentration in the world after Brazil; in the newspaper sector, four companies control 84% of the market — Google and Meta should fund traditional public interest journalism, a new international study reports
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Global Media …, @mediamorphis, @ruthmahalia, @simon_rosenberg and Caroline James-Garrod on LinkedIn
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US — Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
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PRWeek, 9to5Google, Mediaweek and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more — Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries …
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SE Ranking Blog, Chris Andrew on LinkedIn, @dshieldspgh.bsky.social, @mizshellytee.bsky.social, Ad Age, @wagatwe.com, @xodaniwrites.bsky.social, The Information, The Drum, 9to5Google, Adweek, @feralhattie.bsky.social, Search Engine Land, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social and Semafor, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
Sources: the NFL is in talks with Skydance Media and its major investor RedBird Capital Partners that could result in a sale of NFL Media and NFL Network — - Discussions revolve around the league's media assets — Earlier conversations with ESPN are said to have stalled
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The Streamable, Randall Williams on LinkedIn, The Desk, Business Insider, Dan Rayburn on LinkedIn and TVNewsCheck
CNN:
Melania Trump's book publisher asked CNN to sign an NDA and pay $250K to interview her, but then called the request a “miscommunication” — Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump's book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir.
Martyn Ziegler / The Times:
Reuters withdraws two stories on the World Anti-Doping Agency after it was found that WADA's media head received a Reuters press pass for the Masters golf event — World Anti-Doping Agency media chief James Fitzgerald accredited for golf event via Reuters, who have admitted to ‘a violation of our journalistic standards’
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KSTP-TV, @tariqpanja, @tariqpanja, The Guardian, @2xaught7.bsky.social, Reuters, Reuters, @tariqpanja and Talking Biz News
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users — Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup. This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs …
Tommy Walker / Voice of America:
The US Embassy in Cambodia calls for the release of Mech Dara, one of the country's last independent journalists, who has been arrested on incitement charges — Cambodia this week has seen an outpouring of support from journalists, media groups and embassies for Mech Dara …
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The Hill, @usembphnompenh, Adweek, The Diplomat, BBC, CamboJA News and Associated Press
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.
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YouTube Official Blog, @stufflistings, @liahaberman, @robbydude, 9to5Google, @yodontmentionme, @nealmohan, @bricksbymind, @teamyoutube, @0marutg, Creator Insider on YouTube, @kennysmith.bsky.social, Android Police, @youtubeliaison, Tubefilter, @youtubeliaison, The Verge and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Watson / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Meta's Canada news ban affected the town of Squamish and how outlets are working around the ban, including through paid posts on Meta — Meta's Canadian news ban, as told through my small town — In March of 2021, a set of Facebook pages showed up in the feeds of my neighbors in Squamish …
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Lauren Watson on LinkedIn, Phaedra de Saint-Rome on LinkedIn and @cjr
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at James McDonald's Access Global, which has bought seven local news sites and launched eight in Philadelphia and on the Jersey Shore over the last year — McDonald thinks there's a viable business model for hyper-local sites if they're tied to coverage from a broader region or city.
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