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Sources detail Fox's 20 months of missteps and miscalculations in the Dominion lawsuit that led to one of the biggest debacles of Rupert Murdoch's media empire — Fox's handling of the defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which settled for $787.5 million, left many unanswered questions.
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Jesse Armstrong / The Guardian:
Succession's creator recalls the show's origin and says Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and Robert Maxwell served as the “holy trinity of models” for Logan Roy — It has been the TV drama of our time - a brutal, hilarious unpicking of how power works.
Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Source: the FBI searched a media consultant's home in its investigation into whether Fox News video outtakes, leaked to Vice and MMFA, came from hacked material — The search at City Council member Lynn Hurtak and Tim Burke's home was part of a probe into computer hacks at Fox News.
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Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
A coalition of UK news industry bodies issues a statement challenging the Conservative party's £137 fee per journalist to attend its party conference in October — UK Conservatives are only party to charge press delegates for accreditation at annual gathering
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
WPP partners with Nvidia to use generative AI to produce ads at scale for clients, helping create campaigns in minutes that would previously have taken weeks — Technology platform will drastically speed up production of bespoke content for clients — WPP, one of the world's largest advertising groups …
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New York Times:
Workers from other unions showing greater solidarity than during the 2007 strike are helping writers disrupt studio productions with already finished scripts — Workers from other unions have shown solidarity with the strikers, catching entertainment companies off guard.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Global says Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel's daily podcast The News Agents had 30M downloads in May, ahead of their US-focused weekly podcast launch on June 20 — The News Agents announced on Thursday they would launch a new weekly US podcast. — The executive producer of the News Agents …
Kelvin Chan / Associated Press:
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter dropped out of a voluntary EU agreement to combat online disinformation but adds that Twitter's “obligations remain” — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.
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Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Axios' CEO says AI will lead to fewer big, generic media brands and more niche ones, force publishers to tighten direct relationships with consumers, and more — Artificial intelligence will soon transform media on a scale and pace that rivals the internet two decades ago.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
The Messenger's Chief Growth Officer Neetzan Zimmerman is trying to grow the site using the strategies he learned in the meme-happy early days of online media — The News — Months before the launch of The Messenger's news website earlier in May, its newly minted Chief Growth Officer …
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Viacom18 strikes a deal with NBCUniversal to bring NBCU movies and TV shows to JioCinema, and plans to make the content available only to paying subscribers — JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney's Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for …
Samuel Agini / Financial Times:
A look at Formula One's D2C broadcast product F1 TV, which has become a key component of the sport's growth strategy in the US, Brazil, Mexico, India, and more — Traditional broadcasters have helped steer fans towards the motorsport's own subscription apps, F1 TV and F1 TV Pro
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