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3:10 PM ET, January 27, 2023

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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Sources question The Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan's strategy, after top executives left in 2022, union distrust grew, and layoffs hit beside new job postings  —  After a decade of growth, the paper is laying off staff and was reportedly on track to lose money last year.
Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed stock jumped 120% on January 26, bringing its market value to nearly $300M, its biggest gain since going public in December 2021, on its OpenAI news  —  BuzzFeed Inc. shares surged by a record on news that the digital-media company plans to use OpenAI to bolster some of its content creation.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance quizzes and personalize content; a spokeswoman says the newsroom remains focused on human-generated journalism  —  CEO Jonah Peretti intends for artificial intelligence to play a larger role in the company this year  —  Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Source: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, the anchors of the third hour of ABC's Good Morning America, are negotiating network exits after their romance surfaced  —  New York CNN —  —  T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, the anchors of the third hour of ABC's flagship morning show “Good Morning America …
CNN:
The US DOJ announces charges against three people for plotting to kill New York-based Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad, who has been targeted by Iran  —  The Justice Department announced new arrests Friday in a plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government.
RadioToday:
City, University of London launches a Centre of Podcasting Excellence and the UK's first dedicated Master of Arts in Podcasting, which starts in September 2023  —  City, University of London is launching the UK's first dedicated MA in Podcasting and a Centre of Podcasting Excellence.
Discussion: @glendacooper and @chezspecter
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Despite some big deals signed at the Sundance Film Festival, movie buyers are being much more selective in 2023, as theater audiences and content budgets shrink  —  The kind of independent movies that the festival showcases have struggled at the box office, spurring worries about what the market would be like this year.
Discussion: @nytimestech
James Vincent / The Verge:
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, doesn't let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed  —  Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, has clarified its policies on the use of AI writing tools in scientific papers.
 
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Dessi Gomez / The Wrap:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences partners with Letterboxd, a film-focused social network that has 8M members, ahead of the Oscars on March 12
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen's most-streamed titles on US TVs in 2022: Stranger Things, followed by NCIS, CoComelon, Ozark, and Encanto; streaming content consumption rose ~27% YoY
 Earlier Picks: 
Kareem Shaheen / New Lines Magazine:
Mainstream outlets made important missteps in the Hamline University controversy, particularly by not publishing the painting of Muhammad that sparked it all
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more
Discussion: On Substack and Flack
Washington Post:
After layoffs, The Washington Post adds seven contributors to its opinion section and two visual team members to present content in “new and compelling formats”
Axios:
Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban