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Sources: FT editor Roula Khalaf killed a story on allegations of unwanted advances by ex-Guardian columnist Nick Cohen, saying the story was not an “FT story” — Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances.
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JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 33M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final, surpassing Hotstar's 25.3M — India's JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday …
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If Twitter becomes a home for right-leaning content, Republicans will have to rethink their ire toward Section 230, which they argue allows too much moderation — Twitter is in the midst of a transformation: It is becoming a right-leaning news platform. This will have profound consequences …
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A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to crack down on dangerous and misleading videos — Neal Mohan goofs around with creators and woos advertisers to the platform's short videos and TV offerings
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A coalition of UK media industry bodies issues a statement challenging the Conservative party's £137/journalist fee to attend its October 2023 party conference — UK Conservatives are only party to charge press delegates for accreditation at annual gathering
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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.

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.

The Messenger Chief Growth Officer Neetzan Zimmerman, a star of online media's meme-happy early days, is trying to recapture the best of the old blogosphere — 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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The FT's editor says the newsroom will have a team to experiment responsibly with AI to help with tasks like mining data, analyzing content, and summarizing — Our journalism will continue to be reported, written and edited by humans who are the best in their fields
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A look at the US government-funded Antarctic Sun, Antarctica's biggest and longest-running newspaper, which covers scientific research on the continent — Meet the one-person team behind Antarctica's longest-running newspaper, the Antarctic Sun. — The whipping wind wasn't letting up in the Allan Hills.

WPP partners with Nvidia to produce ads at scale for its clients using generative AI, 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 …
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Greater solidarity from other unions compared to the 2007 WGA strike is helping writers disrupt studio productions with already finished scripts — Workers from other unions have shown solidarity with the strikers, catching entertainment companies off guard. — Nicole Sperling reported from Los Angeles in the early-morning dark.
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