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The Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan plans to leave in August and the outlet names Gates Foundation founding CEO Patty Stonesifer as its interim CEO — Ryan, chief executive of The Post for most of the decade since Jeff Bezos bought it, will lead the new Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: Fox News sends Tucker Carlson a cease and desist letter over his Twitter show; the network says Carlson's contract runs through December 31, 2024 — Fox News has sent a “cease and desist” letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Q&A with A.G. Sulzberger on “independent” journalism, the NYT's financial comeback, criticisms of its op-ed page, its coverage of Trump, trans issues, and more — The paper's publisher discusses bias in reporting, the Times' financial comeback, and criticisms of its coverage of Trump …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Messages: WarnerMedia used CNN's relationship with then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, brother of Chris Cuomo, to advance its commercial interests — The Scoop — CNN and its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, reeling from firing CEO Chris Licht last week, are now facing a new, high-stakes drama.
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU is set to hit Google with a formal antitrust complaint regarding the company's ad tech, with a statement of objections coming as soon as June 14 — Google is set to be hit with a formal antitrust complaint from the European Union that could pave the way for massive fines …
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Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge acquire the Golden Globes from the HFPA and plan to make the awards a for-profit enterprise; HFPA will wind down — The Globes will no longer be under the oversight of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization of non-American journalists …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Athletic lays off ~20 or ~4% of its journalists and will give 20+ reporters new assignments, as it shifts from one reporter per team to broader coverage — Nearly 20 journalists will lose their jobs and more than 20 others will be moved to new assignments.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
With Telegraph's parent company B.UK in receivership and set for auction, a look at potential buyers and initial optimism shared among its staff about the news — With a sell-off looming for the newspapers, several tycoons and groups look to have the money, and the motivation, to take over
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Jane Bradley / New York Times:
The Guardian apologizes to at least one woman for its handling of sexual harassment complaints against columnist Nick Cohen and plans to change its processes — The British media company is also changing its internal processes following a New York Times investigation into a former star political columnist.
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
How science fiction and fantasy publishers are dealing with AI tools' role in the industry and with the trust crisis due to AI-generated content becoming common — Science fiction and fantasy authors are struggling with AI-generated media — and formulating strategies to deal with it.
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
GroupM expects global ad spending to grow 5.9% to $874.5B in 2023, excluding US political ads, and digital advertising to grow 8.4%, the slowest since 2009 — GroupM expects ad spending to grow 5.9% this year to $874.5 billion, excluding U.S. political advertising
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Time dropped its paywall on June 1, ending 250K digital subscriptions, and says the outlet has 1.3M print subscribers and revenue grew 19% YoY to $200M in 2022 — Earlier this month, the publisher eliminated its digital subscription business — The general news publisher …
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