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Jane Bradley / New York Times:
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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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
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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Robby Soave / Reason:
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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New York Times, @stephenlemons, The Information and The Wrap
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
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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@tsoh_investing and @youtubeliaison
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
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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Media Voices, HoldtheFrontPage, @snigskitchen, @michaelwhite, @richardjmurphy and @mediaguido
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.
New York Times:
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.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
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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@azi, @gavinpurcell, @crulge and @tomgara
Roula Khalaf / Financial Times:
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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@sachinkalbag, @shashj, @stokel, @ltrgoddard, @hellahueck, @jayrosen_nyu, @consultifi and @thattimwalker
Ben Mack / Esquire:
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.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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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MediaPost, @jonnoorlander, CNN, Nvidia Newsroom and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
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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@grrmspeaking, @mymuppetnook, @yashar, Collider, @nicsperling, @rawsonthurber, Boing Boing, Deadline and Gizmodo
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