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The Pulitzer Prizes:
List of 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners, including WSJ for Investigative Reporting, WaPo for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting — New York, NY (May 8, 2023) — Columbia University today announces the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Four of the 16 Pulitzer Prize awards went to local outlets reporting on corruption; Spotify's Gimlet Media won for audio reporting, its first Pulitzer Prize — The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with four of the 16 awards for journalism across 15 categories …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Tucker Carlson wants to force Fox News to let him out of his contract, which expires in January 2025; Carlson and Elon Musk discussed working together — Tucker Carlson is preparing to unleash allies to attack Fox News in an effort to bully the network into letting him work for …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says 40+ new advertisers came into the 8pm slot since Tucker Carlson's exit and it hopes to bring back a full complement of advertisers to the slot — Tucker Carlson is out at 8 p.m. on Fox News Channel, and the network hopes that a host of blue-chip advertisers that for years avoided …
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@goangelo, Mediaite, @jeremymbarr, @mollyjongfast, @a_newsman, @bristei and @jeremymbarr
Max Tani / Semafor:
Some elite podcasts, like the New York Times' The Daily and iHeartMedia's Black Effect and My Cultura, have struggled to fill their ad slots in recent months — The News — Some of the most listened-to podcasts in America are struggling to sell ads as the audio business shifts toward the vast, mostly independent, “mid-tail.”
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@loewylawfirm, @mattyglesias, @semaforben and @semafor
David Pierce / The Verge:
How Google's attempt to create a better, faster mobile web for media companies with the AMP standard ended up ruining publishers' trust in the internet giant — Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
Anna Fazackerley / The Guardian:
More than 40 scientists resign from the editorial board of science journal Neuroimage, which charges £2,700+ per paper, to protest publisher Elsevier's “greed” — Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
J. R. Moehringer / New Yorker:
The ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir Spare on becoming a ghostwriter, gaining a new perspective on the tabloids after the UK media covered him, and more — Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Puck News co-founder and CEO Joe Purzycki is leaving, H1 2023 ad revenue so far is up 200% YoY, and subscribers “more than doubled during the past year” — Puck News co-founder and CEO Joe Purzycki is leaving the company, according to an internal note sent from co-founder …
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The Wrap, @jbenton, @seangriffey, @heetermaria and @sarafischer
Low De Wei / Bloomberg:
Chinese authorities arrest a man for using ChatGPT to write and spread fake news articles, one of the first known instances, with one article having 15K+ views — Chinese authorities have detained a man for using ChatGPT to write fake news articles, in what appears to be one of the first instances …
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Cointelegraph and Semafor
Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger:
PubMatic launches Activate, which lets brands and agencies buy CTV and online video inventory through direct deals, cutting out DSPs to remain competitive — The line between the buy side and sell side of digital advertising is getting blurrier by the day. Now PubMatic is crossing the aisle.
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Digiday, @davemorgannyc and MediaPost
Diana Li / Bloomberg:
After GPTZero gained 1.2M users since January, co-founder Edward Tian raised $3.5M to launch Origin, aimed at “saving journalism” by detecting AI disinformation — Journalists, screenwriters and college professors are among widening groups of people who are concerned …
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@edward_the6, @edward_the6, @mhbergen, Fast Company and @diana_k16, more at Techmeme »
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