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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR CEO Jarl Mohn will step down at end of his five-year term in June 2019, move to new role fundraising for the network ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2020  —  NPR's chief executive, Jarl Mohn, announced Tuesday he would step aside next June at the end of his five-year term to focus …
Discussion: @davidgura, @elisewho and @nprinskeep
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David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik:
NPR CEO Jarl Mohn and his wife Pamela will contribute $10M of their personal fortune to the network's fundraising drive ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2020  —  NEWS ABOUT NPR: NPR CEO Jarl Mohn announces he will step down at the end of his five-year term in June to become president emeritus to raise money for the network; contributing $10M from his own personal fortune. My story, up shortly.
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Sources: Netflix paid $100M to license Friends exclusively in US from WarnerMedia in 2019, up from $30M, ahead of AT&T's plans for its streaming service in 2020  —  Are Netflix and “Friends” on a break?  —  The answer is no — for now.  Reruns of Joey's thespian trials …
Julianna Goldman / The Atlantic:
“Anti-Mom bias” is keeping working mothers out of the TV news industry, with bosses unwilling to accommodate female correspondents with children  —  For female television reporters, the decision to have kids can be a career-ending one.  —  It was the only time I had cried in front of one of my bosses at CBS News.
Discussion: TVNewser
Matt Scuffham / Reuters:
Thomson Reuters says it plans to cut 12% of its workforce, or 3200 jobs, over next two years and reduce its number of global offices by 30% to 133 by 2020  —  TORONTO (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO) said on Tuesday that it will cut its workforce by 12 percent in the next two years …
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
Serial's Season 3 surpassed 50M downloads last week to become the podcast's biggest show ever  —  Serial published the ninth and final episode of its third season last month, concluding its spectacular ethnographic journey into the heart of the American criminal-justice system as experienced through the city of Cleveland.
Discussion: Nieman Lab and @serial
Jason Abbruzzese / NBC News:
Dutch news startup De Correspondent has crowdfunded $1M+ to launch a US version of its site but only has until December 14 to meet its $2.5M goal  —  News outlets large and small are turning to paid-membership models in search of the financial security that digital ads have not provided.
Natalie Robehmed / Forbes:
Top 10 YouTube stars earned $180.5M between June 2017 and June 2018, up 42% YoY, thanks in part to merchandising deals, with Ryan ToysReview leading with $22M  —  rand partnerships, a clothing line, millions of fans: What was once solely the province of superstar athletes and Hollywood A-listers now includes …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: as part of its restructuring, AT&T's Otter Media will manage Machinima and is laying off 10% of its staff across its properties  —  Otter Media, the digital-media company owned by AT&T, is undergoing a broad restructuring resulting in the layoff of about 10% of employees across …
Discussion: The Wrap
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Two Northern Irish investigative journalists arrested on fabricated charges by police feel like “pawns in state attack on press freedom”  —  Two investigative journalists in Northern Ireland have said they feel like “pawns in a state attack on press freedom” …
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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