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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
An in-depth profile of CNN under Chris Licht and his vision for the network, as ratings keep falling and he seeks to create a forum for conversation and “truth” — CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network's reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
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Wall Street Journal:
CNN names veteran Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Leavy as its COO, to take over commercial, operational, and promotional activities across the channel
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections” — In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
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Mike Krieger / Artifact News:
How Artifact will replace a clickbait title using GPT-4: first, only for users who request it, then a human reviewer may make the new title the default for all — At Artifact, we harness the power of AI and combine it with creative product design to improve the news & content experience for our users.
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines marked as clickbait by many users — Last month, the Artifact news app introduced an option for users to flag an article as clickbait.
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Internal memo: Insider CEO Henry Blodget thanks all employees and criticizes the Insider Union for its strike, calling contract demands “unworkable” — Insider chief executive officer Henry Blodget sent out the following after its editorial staff went on strike: — Team,
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@insiderunion:
Insider Union says it has failed to agree on a fair contract with Insider management and 250 employees are now on indefinite strike
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week — A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost its head of brand safety …
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The Guardian:
The BBC appoints Elan Closs Stephens as its acting chair starting on June 27, 2023, to lead the board for 12 months or until a permanent chair is appointed — BBC board member to assume role from 27 June after resignation of Richard Sharp — Prof Dame Elan Closs Stephens …
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Dan Caesar / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A bankruptcy judge rules that Diamond Sports Group must pay four MLB teams their full contract values to keep televising games; Diamond sought to cut its costs — After two long days of hearings, more than nine hours on Wednesday then a session Thursday that lasted until shortly after 6:30 p.m. …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jemele Hill is leaving Spotify, which has exclusively distributed her Jemele Hill Is Unbothered podcast and her Unbothered Network of shows since 2019 — Another prominent podcaster is leaving Spotify Technology SA, as the company reverses many of its biggest investments in original audio and loses yet another Black voice.
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Gannett:
NPR News Vice President and Executive Editor Terence Samuel plans to join Gannett and lead USA Today as EIC, starting on July 10, 2023 — Veteran leaders promoted to advance local content and journalism across the USA TODAY Network — Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) today announced veteran journalist …
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Vogue Business:
Memo: British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful plans to become Vogue's global creative and cultural advisor in 2024 and hire a British Vogue head of editorial content — The British Vogue editor-in-chief will become editorial advisor in 2024. — To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify's Parcast, Gimlet, and other podcast studios still have not received their 2023 budgets, hindering the approval of new shows and some expenses — Hi, welcome back to Soundbite. This week was a short one, so we're going to run through a couple stories and get out of here.
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