Mediagazer: Willamette Week's owner plans to launch the Oregon Journalism Project as nonprofit news orgs aim to fill the void left by Oregon's receding print publications (Pat Dooris/KGW-TV)

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: TVNewsCheck, DNyuz, @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: Dan Rayburn on LinkedIn, Business Insider, The Desk, 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: Mediaweek, Digiday, 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: Chris Andrew on LinkedIn, SE Ranking Blog, 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 »

Pat Dooris / KGW-TV:

Willamette Week's owner plans to launch the Oregon Journalism Project as nonprofit news orgs aim to fill the void left by Oregon's receding print publications — The people behind Willamette Week will soon launch the Oregon Journalism Project, joining a burgeoning group of nonprofit news outfits looking to fill the gaps.

Discussion: Oregonian

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

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.

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 and The Diplomat

Lucy Craymer / Reuters:

Google says it'll stop linking to news content and drop its deals with news orgs in New Zealand if NZ passes a 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, KSTP-TV, @jason_kint and Google New Zealand Blog, more at Techmeme »

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

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