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9:10 PM ET, May 27, 2023

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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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Christopher Spata / Tampa Bay Times:
A profile of Tim Burke, aka @bubbaprog, known for his media scoops and whose video equipment the FBI seized in a probe of leaked Tucker Carlson video outtakes  —  The former Deadspin journalist, who tweets often as @bubbaprog, has gone silent.  —  FBI agents served a warrant at a home …
New York Times:
Sources detail how a series of missteps and miscalculations by Fox in the Dominion lawsuit 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.
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.
CNBC:
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook  —  - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety …
Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the media's coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting  —  The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months.
Steven McIntosh / BBC:
After former This Morning host Phillip Schofield admitted to an affair with a younger colleague and left ITV, some question how much ITV managers knew in 2020  —  ITV has said it investigated rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and a younger employee in 2020 - but both “repeatedly denied” it.
Brian Melley / Associated Press:
A UK court clears for trial Hugh Grant's lawsuit against News Group Newspapers over alleged illegal snooping by The Sun journalists and investigators in 2011  —  A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
An interview about free speech with Masha Gessen, who quit PEN America's board after the group disinvited Russian writers from an event when Ukrainians objected  —  A conversation about balancing free-speech commitments in an era of war.  —  Last week, my colleague Masha Gessen announced …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
An interview with Jimmy Finkelstein, the former owner of The Hill and founder of The Messenger, on the site's business model, expansion plans, critics, and more  —  In a wide-ranging sit-down, the former Hill owner opens up to Vanity Fair about what's to come for his week-plus-old news site …
Chris Pash / AdNews News:
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson criticizes the Global Disinformation Index, saying such organizations that rank news outlets have “undue influence on ad spend”  —  Robert Thomson, CEO of global media group News Corp, says he's discovered advertising agency staff letting personal …
Emma Hurt / Axios:
How CNN helped and benefited from Atlanta, as the company prepares to move out from downtown's CNN Center into its original, smaller Techwood campus in Midtown  —  Cable News Network — CNN — was founded in Atlanta in 1980 by media mogul Ted Turner as the world's first 24-hour television news network.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A second wave of podcasting consolidation seems to have arrived with two acquisitions in the past week: Audily bought Rococo Punch and LiveOne bought Kast Media
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Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Freedom of the Press Foundation announces the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, a position dedicated to the reform of the US' secrecy infrastructure
Scott Mendelson / The Wrap:
Lionsgate reports Q4 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $974.9M estimated, net loss down 7% YoY to $96.8M, and Motion Picture revenue up 85% YoY to $532.1M
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
DirecTV strikes a nonexclusive multiyear deal with EverPass Media, formed to distribute NFL games to commercial spots, to keep broadcasting NFL Sunday Ticket
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Mansa, a free, ad-supported streaming service centered on Black culture, partners with AMC Theatres to exhibit its original features and series in US theaters
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Email: Wall Street Journal EIC Emma Tucker says Deputy EICs Neal Lipschutz and Jason Anders are leaving the newspaper; Lipschutz is retiring after 41 years
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to debut iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on October 28 and unveil a new iPad mini and Macs in late October; some could ship from November 1

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, AWS' AI chatbot Q, shutting down services, investing in open source, open sourcing projects, and more

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