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CNN aired raw police body cam footage of Tyre Nichols' fatal arrest first, as MSNBC, Fox News, and others were initially cautious in showing the graphic video — CNN went first, but other cable news outlets were cautious today in showing the horrific police body cam video footage of the fatal January 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols.
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Russell Brandom / Rest of World:
The BBC issuing copyright takedowns to platforms hosting copies of its Narendra Modi documentary may unintentionally aid the impact of India's censorship orders — Copyright claims by the BBC are making a bad situation worse. — For just over a week, India's Ministry of Information …
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Source: Spotify's podcast team, under new head Sahar Elhabashi, is focusing less on quantity in favor of courting creators and building a select group of hits — Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite. It's another bleak week in the media and audio worlds, so we'll be talking …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC News says T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach will move on from the network; ABC suspended the Good Morning America anchors in December after their romance surfaced — “After several productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, about different options, we all agreed it's best …
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Charlie Hall / Polygon:
Dungeons & Dragons' publisher abandons plans to alter the Open Gaming License and plans to move its Systems Reference Document to a Creative Commons license — A full retreat by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast — Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast will abandon attempts to alter the Open Gaming License (OGL).
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
The News Movement, a social media-first news outlet led by former BBC and News Corp executives, acquires video news startup The Recount for undisclosed equity — The News Movement, a video news organization started by former top executives at the BBC and News Corp., is hoping to establish …
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Sophie Vershbow / Esquire:
Authors, editors, agents, booksellers, and others worry about the potential final days of #BookTwitter, a community creating book deals, friendships, and more — “It feels like the castle we made is being swept off the table by a billionaire's tantrum,” one writer says.
Joseph Kapsch / The Wrap:
Nielsen: CNN notched its lowest ratings in nine years for January 16-22, averaging 444,000 primetime viewers, below 450,000 for the first time since May 2014 — “Upcoming programming changes likely to make matters worse,” an insider tells TheWrap — Boy, the hits keep on coming for CNN's semi …
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music — An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it.
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CTech:
OpenWeb, which helps outlets manage comments and target readers with ads, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M — The Israeli-founded unicorn, which raised $170 million at a $1.5 billion valuation three months ago, completed its third acquisition in a year …
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Mustafa Abu Sneineh / Middle East Eye:
BBC Arabic, the BBC's first non-English radio service, closes after 85 years, as part of a September 2022 announcement of cost cutting and a shift to digital — The first foreign language radio of the British Empire Service, set up to counter the German and Italian propaganda, began its life in 1938
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Wall Street Journal:
Documents and sources: Meta sees a path to recovery using AI tools that boost views of Reels, improve ad targeting even with less available user data, and more — After the roughest year in its history, Meta is starting to bounce back. Users are watching its short-form videos …
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