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Semafor Climate and Energy Editor Bill Spindle left last week, saying his tenure was “marred by an over-dependence on Chevron advertising” — Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has exited the publication after several months after saying his tenure was …
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Sources: ABC News' president told staff that GMA anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes will be off the air while ABC weighs their romantic relationship disclosure — Godwin told ABC News employees during an editorial call Monday that Robach and Holmes had not violated any company policy …
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Diamond Sports Group's board votes to block parent company Sinclair Broadcasting from having any further input into Bally Sports' day-to-day operations — Just days after taking a $1 billion impairment loss on its troubled Bally Sports unit, the board of Diamond Sports Group has voted …
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New Zealand plans to introduce legislation forcing tech companies like Meta and Google to pay local outlets for news, modeled after laws in Australia and Canada — The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet Inc's …
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NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell says Peacock has 18M+ paid subscribers, up from 15M in September, driven by sports, content migrated from Hulu, and Universal movies — NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Peacock has more than 18 million paid subscribers as of today, a nice bump from the 15 million …
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Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery executives are close to picking “Max” as the name of the joint HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming service launching in spring 2023 — - Warner Bros. Discovery plans to merge its HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services in the spring.
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An interview with BBC chairman Richard Sharp on license fee alternatives, moving the business department to Manchester, maintaining “impartiality”, and more — Richard Sharp celebrated the BBC's centennial year not by enjoying newly discovered episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, but by developing a man crush on Tony Adams.
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A survey of 2,310 US radio stations: white employees made up 75.4% of noncommercial newsrooms in Q4 2021, down from 78.8% YoY, vs. 92.1% of commercial newsrooms — A survey tracking workforce diversity in radio and television found that racial diversity has grown among the news staffs of noncommercial radio stations.
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Fox Sports' World Cup coverage is an unmissable abomination filled with gaffes, tedious analogies to American sports, mispronunciations, and on-air awkwardness — Broadcaster has offered up a feast of gaffes, stupidity, and unconquerable on-air awkwardness for US viewers to enjoy — he World Cup!
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Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 — Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
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Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such — Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.
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Apple shares eight podcast charts for 2022: The New York Times had three podcasts in the top 10 US shows, Audiochuck was the top free US channel, and more — After announcing its 2022 App Store Awards including the Podcast of the Year, Apple shared eight new Podcast charts for 2022 including …
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Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” detail Twitter staff nefariously helping Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” detail Twitter staff nefariously helping Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision
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