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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Law360 now requires every story go through an AI-powered “bias” detection tool before publication after a LexisNexis exec accused the newsroom of liberal bias — The policy was announced after an executive accused the newsroom of bias in its Trump administration coverage.
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
A US immigration judge grants bond to Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara, after he was arrested by police while covering a protest and turned over to ICE — An immigration judge in Georgia on Tuesday granted bond for a well-known Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering …
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default — Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own “fact-checking” AI agents for review — Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed …
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Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
Sources: the HFPA voted to reconstitute itself on Monday, two years after disbanding, to reexamine Jay Penske and Todd Boehly's deal to buy the Golden Globes — As California's AG withholds deal approval, the voting body required to dissolve for the transaction reverses course and is seeking to oust Helen Hoehne
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
In a filing, the Newhouse family, which owns Condé Nast, says it plans to sell 100M WBD shares worth around $1.1B total; $WBD falls 4% — The media giant's stock tumbled over 4% during Tuesday's trading session after the Condé Nast owners sold 100 million shares
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Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Apple unveils Apple Music Studios in Culver City, CA, where musicians can come for radio interviews, to record new music, do photo shoots, and film content — “We want this to be an open house for artists, songwriters or any creator to come in, hang out and create content …
Reuters:
Court filing: Paramount and Trump ask a judge to stay their 60 Minutes lawsuit until Thursday as they are in “good faith, advanced, settlement negotiations” — Paramount Global (PARA.O) and President Donald Trump are engaged in “good faith, advanced, settlement negotiations” …
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Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
AMC Entertainment reaches an agreement with creditors to reduce debt, including raising ~$223.3M and converting $143M of debt into equity; AMC falls ~6% — Agreement comes after AMC posted a wider loss and lower sales in the first quarter — AMC Entertainment reached an agreement …
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Financial Times:
Warner Music and Bain announce a $1.2B joint venture to buy song rights; sources: Warner is in talks to acquire the Red Hot Chili Peppers' catalog for $300M+ — Acquisition would be a coup for record company and private equity firm's new song rights joint venture
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
In a note to staff, Axios says it is changing its AI policy, which promised “NO AI-written stories”, as it was “unnecessarily limiting” given AI's progress — Axios is changing its editorial policies to be more friendly to AI use. In a recent note to staff, Axios said it was revising its AI language. “The new language replaces our original framing which was centered on how everything we do 'will be written or produced by a real
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
An interview with Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch on the Belfast Telegraph reaching 100K digital subscribers, plans to reach 200K by 2030, and more — Mediahuis Ireland is aiming to double its digital subscriptions to 200,000 in five years, according to its chief executive.
