Mediagazer: The Recording Academy, the group that votes for Grammys, says it now has over 13,000 voting members; at least 38% are people of color and at least 28% are women (Paul Grein/Billboard)

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 …

Discussion: @jdluckenbach, @robertfaturechi, @devincow, @brianstelter, @JenniferSlack@mastodon.social and @ProPublica@newsie.social

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

Discussion: @mediamorphis, @ruthmahalia, @simon_rosenberg, Caroline James-Garrod on LinkedIn and Global Media …

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

Discussion: The Desk, Business Insider, Dan Rayburn on LinkedIn, The Streamable, Randall Williams on LinkedIn and TVNewsCheck

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.

Discussion: Digiday, Mediaweek, PRWeek, 9to5Google and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: SE Ranking Blog, Chris Andrew on LinkedIn, The Drum, @mizshellytee.bsky.social, Semafor, @xodaniwrites.bsky.social, Adweek, @feralhattie.bsky.social, @dshieldspgh.bsky.social, Search Engine Land, The Information, Ad Age, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social, @wagatwe.com and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »

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.

Paul Grein / Billboard:

The Recording Academy, the group that votes for Grammys, says it now has over 13,000 voting members; at least 38% are people of color and at least 28% are women — It's a new academy compared to the one that showered Adele and Bruno Mars with Grammys in 2017 and 2018.

Discussion: GoldDerby, KSTP-TV, Variety, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter and GoldDerby

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, @usembphnompenh, Adweek, The Diplomat and CamboJA News

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’

Discussion: KSTP-TV, @tariqpanja, @tariqpanja, @tariqpanja, The Guardian, @2xaught7.bsky.social, Reuters, Reuters and Talking Biz News

Lucy Craymer / Reuters:

Google says it'll stop linking to news content and cut ties with news orgs in New Zealand if the country passes law forcing digital platforms to pay for content — Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations …

Discussion: NZ Herald, @jason_kint and Google New Zealand Blog, more at Techmeme »

Akash Sriram / Reuters:

Thomson Reuters agrees to sell FindLaw, which provides legal information, to Internet Brands, which owns WebMD and more, in a deal expected to close in Q4 2024 — Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO), (TRI.N) said on Thursday that it was selling its FindLaw business to Internet Brands.

Discussion: Thomson Reuters

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 …

Discussion: Spotify, PCMag, CNET, Mikael Bolle on LinkedIn, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Digital Music News, Gizmodo, Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget and TechRadar, more at Techmeme »