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11:50 AM ET, June 18, 2023

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Washington Post:
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that led to a landmark press freedoms SCOTUS ruling and founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation, dies at 92  —  Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, he leaked a top-secret history of the conflict, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Source: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tells investors that no major ad holding firms now recommends an ad pause and says Twitter's focus is video and partnerships  —  Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising …
Mark Caro / Local News Initiative:
An interview with Stephanie Lulay, one of three co-founders of Block Club Chicago, as the nonprofit outlet hits its fifth anniversary with 29 full-time staffers  —  Exceeding its DNAinfo origins, Block Club Chicago hits 5th anniversary doubling down on the power of neighborhood reporting
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Alex McCaskill, the Fox News producer who wrote the chyron labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator”, has left the company  —  Sources identified the culprit to The Daily Beast as Alex McCaskill, a longtime producer on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: Thomas Fox has left Fox News, in addition to Alexander McCaskill; both were producers for Tucker Carlson and are defendants in Abby Grossberg's lawsuit  —  The departures are the latest fallout since the network sidelined Mr. Carlson in April.  —  Two top producers …
Financial Times:
Sources: media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe  —  Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models
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The Guardian:
As part of its new policy on AI, The Guardian says it will use AI only when it contributes to original journalism and to help with corrections and suggestions
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Gannett plans to launch an AI tool to create bulleted summaries of USA Today articles in Q4 and is developing a tool to break stories into various formats
Discussion: @martinpatience and @iatalkspace
Lucy Westcott / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ assisted journalists in exile, through immigration support letters and grants for necessities, 206 times in 2022 vs. 63 times in 2020, a 227% increase  —  Keep closely connected to your homeland and don't despair: that is advice Syrian journalist Okba Mohammad said he would offer …
Discussion: @pressfreedom
Pew Research Center:
Study of 451 top-ranked US podcasts: 24% are true crime shows, 15% focus on news, and 18% are affiliated with news orgs; 51% produce video to accompany shows  —  Although it's much newer than other media like television or books, the podcast ecosystem has created a rich library of content covering …
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Spotify and Prince Harry and Meghan's production company Archewell Audio end their partnership less than a year after Meghan's podcast debuted on the platform  —  The couple's production company and the streaming service announced an end to their relationship, less than a year after Meghan's podcast debuted on the platform.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other  —  The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
 
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Félix Lengyel, aka xQc, a Twitch streamer who has nearly 12M followers, signs a two-year ~$100M non-exclusive deal to join Australian streaming service Kick
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[Thread] US prosecutors charge three men in connection with vandalism against two NHPR journalists who had investigated an executive's alleged sexual misconduct
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The Guardian:
Boris Johnson joins The Daily Mail as a weekly columnist to write “completely unexpurgated stuff”, a day after a report found he deliberately misled parliament
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Hanan Elatr, Jamal Khashoggi's widow, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus phone spyware to track them both
 

 
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency

 
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