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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news — Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney is planning to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks, many from the company's recently consolidated marketing department — Entertainment company is planning to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks — Disney is preparing …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Sources: Paramount is unlikely to appoint a direct successor to Jeff Shell after his departure; Shell had few direct reports and did not lead WBD negotiations — Jeff Shell is unlikely to be directly replaced as president of Paramount, numerous insiders and people who do business with the company tell Deadline.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Jeff Shell steps down as Paramount president and board member; a law firm report appears to clear him of claims that he shared confidential information
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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices — Controls are rolling out worldwide to stop videos playing alongside music and podcasts. … Spotify is adding new toggles to stop …
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Business Standard, Podnews and Android Central
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a “live selfie” recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo — YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts. This feature was teased earlier this year.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks rebrands as AMC Global Media, filing new articles of incorporation in Nevada; CEO Kristin Dolan says streaming is its top domestic revenue source — The media company behind ‘The Walking Dead’ and Anne Rice universes is rebranding itself ahead of what it hopes will be its next genre-defining hit, ‘The Audacity.’
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The Wrap, Deadline, Yeah and Media Play News
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases — Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier …
Carolina Abbott Galvão / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Jeremy Caplan, a journalism teacher and author of a newsletter about digital tools for journalism, on the potential of AI, its limits, and its dangers — Jeremy Caplan, a journalism teacher and newsletter author, on the potential of AI and its limits.
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Court docs: California's DOJ warned Nexstar executives that the state's attorneys were scrutinizing Nexstar's Tegna bid more than a week before the deal closed — Attorneys with the State of California warned executives at Nexstar Media Group that their office was scrutinizing …
Lachlan Cartwright / Breaker:
Sources: CBS News has invited Pete Hegseth to sit at its WHCD table; Fox News plans to host Tulsi Gabbard and Sean Duffy, and NY Post will host Scott Bessent — New Netflix Book; Talese's Rare Read; Breaker Barometer … The New York Times and the Times Guild have finally put one foot forward today …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Harvey Levin about TMZ adding resources to cover politics, including Congress, being “sometimes fun and sometimes intensely serious”, and more — It took a few years for Hollywood's love-to-be-hated gossip hound to find his place within Murdoch's Fox empire.
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Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
US HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is launching a podcast, billing it as a new way to expose “corruption” and “lies” making Americans sick — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin …
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