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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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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
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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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
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
In response to the NYT's decision not to issue local endorsements, Ben Smith and other NYC journalists launch a project to do interviews with and vet candidates — New York CNN — — As newspaper editorial boards lose influence, or withdraw from the space altogether, there are openings for others.
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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 …
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Reuters:
Shares of Nature publisher Springer Nature opened at €24 in its Frankfurt IPO; the academic publisher priced its IPO at €22.5, giving it a ~€4.5B valuation — Springer Nature's (SPGG.DE) shares opened at 24 euros in its Frankfurt initial public offering (IPO) on Friday …
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt; Meta plans to make it available on its apps in 2025 — Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …
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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.
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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.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems — The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
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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.
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