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Glenn Garner / Deadline:
Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network — “For almost 28 years, I was a reporter and anchor for ABC News, and as you may have heard, I'm not there anymore,” he said in a video entitled ‘Independence Day’.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Tubi announces plans to distribute 20+ films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund — Tubi is partnering with Kickstarter to distribute more than 20 crowdfunded films. … Today, Tubi (which is owned by Fox) …
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders — Three employees at Voice of America's fact-checking unit fled Putin's wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump's orders.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024 — More ads could mean lower CPMs, but performance could slip. — When Amazon introduced ads on Prime Video in January 2024 …
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool to create gen AI ads and depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Small-town newspapers are shutting down due to the lack of a succession plan, not financial issues, in nearly a dozen US states, a growing problem — And it's not just about the money. — For more than a century, the McClusky Gazette has reported the news in a small town in the middle of North Dakota.
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks — Several sources told Deadline that four senior journalists have lodged separate, but coordinated, age discrimination complaints after being shown the door.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones — Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps — As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.
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Toshit Panigrahi on LinkedIn, Olivia Joslin on LinkedIn and TollBit, more at Techmeme »
Prashant Rao / Semafor:
The CPJ directs a law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump EOs targeting American nonprofits — The Scoop — The Committee to Protect Journalists, the US-based press freedom charity, has directed a British law firm to set …
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) must face a lawsuit by independent authors accusing the e-commerce giant of monopolizing the retail market for audiobooks …
The Guardian:
Researchers find evidence that a second fanpage.it journalist, along with an anonymous European journalist, were targeted using Graphite spyware — Citizen Lab says it found ‘digital fingerprints’ of military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted using against activists
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Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI — A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach, which has 450 newsletters, launches free, topic-based Substack newsletters, as it seeks to expand its current estimated 35M monthly UK audience — Reach is launching a series of topic-based free Substack newsletters as part of its bid to broaden and deepen its current estimated monthly UK audience …
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