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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Cameron Barr, The Washington Post's senior managing editor, is leaving at the end of June after 19 years at the Post and over seven years as managing editor — Barr, who joined The Post in 2004 after several years as a foreign correspondent, helped oversee teams that won 12 Pulitzer Prizes
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The Daily Wire claims that Twitter canceled a deal to premiere What Is a Woman and threatened to “throttle” the documentary over two instances of “misgendering” — Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing tore into Elon Musk and Twitter for allegedly threatening …
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Wall Street Journal:
CNN names veteran Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Leavy as COO, to take over commercial, operational, and promotional activities across CNN — Aide to Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav to help network CEO Chris Licht focus on programming — CNN tapped Warner Bros. Discovery …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney has reached its target of 7,000 layoffs, or 3.2% of its total global headcount of 220,000; source: more cuts are planned internationally over time — Disney reached its 7,000 layoffs goal, handing out notices to the remaining employees impacted in its third round of job cuts …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Hundreds of Gannett staff members across the US plan walkouts starting June 5, the day of Gannett's annual shareholder meeting, to protest budget cuts — Hundreds of staffers at Gannett newspapers across seven states are protesting their company's leadership and job cuts
Perry Michael Simon / AllAccess.com:
Internal memo: iHeartMedia executives warn staff not to submit company info to AI platforms without permission while the company rolls out its own AI solutions — What do you think? Add your comment below. — iHEARTMEDIA's stance on artificial intelligence is outlined in an internal memo sent …
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EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
A look at the grotesque world of AI true-crime-victim TikTok, where AI deepfakes, based on images of children who were abused, describe their own ghastly demise — TikTok accounts are posting horrifying artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise
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Amy-Jo Crowley / Reuters:
Sources: Liberty Global and WBD are considering selling their stakes, worth £1B total, in joint venture All3Media, the UK's largest indie TV production company — The owners of All3Media (ALLMD.UL), Britain's largest independent TV production company, are exploring options …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
How The Philadelphia Inquirer uses iPhone lock screen widgets as a “second-screen experience” during live events like sports games and election results coverage — The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.
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Katie Paul / Reuters:
Meta threatens to remove news content from its platforms in California if the state government passes a proposed law forcing tech companies to pay publishers — Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Wednesday it would remove news content in its home state of California …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com launches paid newsletters, with the option available to all WordPress.com blogs, even those on the free plan — WordPress.com is taking on Substack and others with today's news that its Newsletter product will now support paid subscriptions and premium content.
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James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
William O'Neil, who founded financial news and research outlet Investor's Business Daily before selling to News Corp in 2021, dies at 90 — Oklahoma-born entrepreneur promoted a data-rich formula for stock market investing — William J. O'Neil, who grew up poor in Oklahoma during …
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