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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts — - Threads is a text-based messaging app that looks very similar to Twitter. — People will be able to use their Instagram usernames …
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Bloomberg:
French media companies Le Monde, AFP, Le Figaro, and Liberation are accessing Meta's Threads even though Meta hasn't launched the platform in the EU — European football teams, media like Le Monde and Agence France-Presse and other organizations on the continent have found …
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Poynter:
Some journalists say Threads holds promise for their work, and a few say media should be wary of a platform from Meta, which has threatened to block news links — Here's what some notable journalists think about Meta's new social network, which has seen explosive growth since its Wednesday launch.
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Hands-on with Threads: fairly bare-bones text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, no edit button, search is only for user handles, and more — Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
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New York Times:
Memo: NBC CEO Mike Cavanagh promotes Donna Langley, to make entertainment content creative decisions, and Mark Lazarus, to have purview over business decisions — Donna Langley will gain broader oversight of creative decisions for the company's entertainment content.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Netflix, Max, Disney+, and Hulu do not accept ads from rivals; Peacock and Amazon's Freevee do, and Paramount+ does from some of its business partners — Welcome to one of the strangest battles in all of Hollywood's earth-scorched streaming wars.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
MediaNews Group, the newspaper chain owned by Alden Global Capital, has removed commenting widgets from their sites as of July 1, citing moderation difficulties — MediaNews Group, the local newspaper company owned by Alden Global Capital, has shut down all of its comment sections as of July 1st …
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
GQ EIC Will Welch, who sources say made the call to pull a piece critical of WBD CEO David Zaslav, is producing a Warner Bros. movie, a likely ethical conflict — On July 3, GQ.com rolled out a hot-take story titled “How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood.”
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Sarah Alvarez / Columbia Journalism Review:
Philanthropists such as the MacArthur Foundation are weighing whether and how to spend big to help local news; rumors set the amount up to $500M over five years — A group of philanthropy heavyweights including the MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation and others with enough collective spending power …
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Sky News details experiments with an AI-powered reporter and editor who were expected to work together to create a video package and a feature-length news story — The Comcast-owned channel wanted to see if off-the-shelf AI tools could soon replace human journalists (spoiler: not today). — Video
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Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing:
G/O Media's outlets start posting AI-generated content despite staff pushback; a Gizmodo editor calls an AI-generated Star Wars list with errors “embarrassing” — A few weeks back, we wrote about the seemingly never-ending drama at G/O Media, wondering why writers …
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John Herrman / New York Magazine:
The first modern US election without a “minimum viable media” could be in 2024, as automated content helps news institutions and distribution systems collapse — In a recent interview with Canadian right-wing influencer Jordan Peterson, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
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