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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content — Universal Music artists and songwriters plan to explore the future of royalties and content-creation tools in the age of generative AI.
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Maria Heeter / The Information:
Memo: Bloomberg LP names Vlad Kliatchko as CEO, JP Zammitt as President, and plans to form a new board chaired by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney — Bloomberg LP made a sweeping overhaul of its top ranks, putting in place a new CEO, president and chief financial officer …
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New York Times, @maxwelltani, Reuters, Financial Times, Talking Biz News, Axios, @benmullin, @benmullin, The Wrap, @sarafischer and Inside Radio
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: on a call this summer, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to buy more ads if he wants more coverage on the network — The Scoop — If Vivek Ramaswamy wants to appear on Newsmax, he should pay to do it. — That was the message …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming TV app Fire TV Channels adds content from Variety, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, TV Line, and more — Amazon is updating its recently launched Fire TV Channels app. The free, ad-supported streaming platform has a new sidebar that lets …
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Amazon Fire TV on YouTube, The Desk, The Streamable, @dcnorg, TechCrunch and Cord Cutters News
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR's podcast and programming chief, Anya Grundmann, plans to leave at the end of 2023, as NPR combines news and programming under one chief content officer — NPR's top programming executive, Anya Grundmann, announced today she will step down at the end of the year after nearly three decades at the network.
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump says he plans to skip the GOP primary debates, as “the public knows who I am”; Trump has counterprogramming options like a Tucker Carlson interview — Trump has repeatedly criticized Fox News, the host of Wednesday's primetime event, insisting it is a “hostile network” …
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
A profile of George Chidi, an Atlanta journalist who writes on Substack and who documented a 2020 meeting of “alternate” Georgia electors favoring Donald Trump — George Chidi's cameo appearance in the indictment of Donald J. Trump in Georgia was a plot twist, but not an accident.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Rival publishers defend Newsquest after the NUJ accused the UK regional news giant of not passing Local Democracy Reporters funding from the BBC to its staff — Reach said it has put infrastructure in place to support the LDR scheme and wants it to succeed.
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@pressgazette, @pressgazette and @pressgazette
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Jezebel EIC Laura Bassett resigns, becoming the seventh EIC to quit G/O Media in eight months; sources detail harsh working conditions under CEO Jim Spanfeller — In this week's edition of Confider, we look at how G/O Media just lost its seventh EIC in eight months—a sign of absolute tumult at the private equity-owned media empire.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
More media consolidation is likely, but most analysts say high interest rates, regulatory hurdles, and a shaky ad market make for one of the worst times to sell — Experts agree the media business needs to consolidate. But high interest rates, a hostile government and a shaky advertising market …
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@tycarver, @michellemanafy, @lucas_shaw and The Information
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
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Apple Podcasts for Creators, 9to5Mac, The Information, AppleInsider, RAIN News and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Triller's S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M lifetime signups, but Apptopia estimates the app has had 73.2M downloads since its 2015 launch — TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question.
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Salinas Californian, @alexdemling and @tokujpnet, more at Techmeme »
Catherine Thorbecke / CNN:
Justin Trudeau criticizes Meta for “putting corporate profits ahead of people's safety” as the company continues blocking news content during Canadian wildfires — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted Facebook for “putting corporate profits ahead of people's safety” …
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Ben Aris / bne IntelliNews:
An interview with Kommersant's EIC as the business-focused outlet faces both Russia's shrinking press freedoms and EU sanctions after a controversial article — Kommersant editor: “It's not a question of pushing press freedoms outwards, but of preventing them from shrinking inwards.”
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Tim Adams / The Guardian:
An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaya Gazeta EIC Dmitry Muratov on the documentary about him, attacks on reporters, his motivations, and more
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