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Sean James / Mediaite:
In an unaired segment of his 60 Minutes interview on November 2, Trump said CBS paid him a lot of money to settle his lawsuit over Kamala Harris' 2024 interview — One part of President Donald Trump's 60 Minutes interview on Sunday that did not air live: The president gloating that CBS paid …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Trump praised Skydance's Paramount takeover and Bari Weiss' appointment, saying it is the “greatest thing” that has happened “to a free and open and good press” — Trump brags ' ‘60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money' in his first interview with the newsmagazine in 5 years
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with “no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us” — Disney top brass told the troops that the media company's leaders are going to continue to fight for a “fair deal” …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Disney networks including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV after the two sides failed to reach a new carriage deal
Disney networks including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV after the two sides failed to reach a new carriage deal
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
The White House says that journalists can no longer access “Upper Press” in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment — The White House on Friday announced it would no longer allow members of the media to freely access a part of the West Wing …
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Raechel Thankam Job / Reuters:
The UK CMA says it will launch an in-depth investigation into Getty and Shutterstock's proposed merger after their proposed remedies failed to address concerns — Britain's competition watchdog said on Monday it will launch an in-depth investigation into the proposed merger between U.S.-based Getty Images …
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Matt Craig / Forbes:
A look at VideoAmp, which claims ad spending based on its data rose from $300M annually to $3B over the past three years, and is considered a real Nielsen rival — With viewership data underpinning $60 billion in television advertising, an industry behemoth is suddenly facing questions about whether it is …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sony is considering charging movie streaming fees based partly on online performance rather than box office only, as some theatrical flops become streaming hits — Movie studios are rethinking how to get the most value out of their films in the streaming age
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Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
Grokipedia's content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics, but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia for some obscure entries — - A lot of the non-political entries are just direct copies of Wikipedia. — But in certain cases, Grokipedia improved …
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Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances — Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners? — Benjamin Boster's plan was simple.
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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
FanDuel Sports plans to stream select live local NBA and NHL games on apps like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, and Prime Video for free starting in mid-November — A handful of games will stream for free on platforms owned by Paramount, Amazon and Samsung.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Indiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship — The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student media and said that news coverage could be published only online.
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Brianna Tucker / Washington Post:
An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story — Communications director Matt Mercer later says in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”
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Columbia Journalism Review:
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead — OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings — Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.
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