Mediagazer: Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

9:15 AM ET, August 22, 2023

Top News:

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.

Kylie Robison / Fortune:

Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …

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” …

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Tucker Carlson plans to stream a pretaped Trump interview on X during Wednesday's Republican presidential debate — The former Fox News host plans to stream pretaped conversation with the former president on X during Wednesday's Republican presidential debate.

Discussion: The Desk, The Hill, @karaswisher and @asharma

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, @maxwelltani, Financial Times, Talking Biz News, Axios, @benmullin, @benmullin, Reuters, 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 …

Discussion: Politico, @semaforben, New York Post, Vanity Fair, The Desk, Mediaite, @maxwelltani, The Daily Beast, @patdennis, @blaustein, The Hill, @semaforben, @chrislhayes, @defensebaron, @forwardcarolina, @thateljefe, @ivanthek and @schwartzesque

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 …

Discussion: Amazon Fire TV on YouTube, The Streamable, TechCrunch, Cord Cutters News, @dcnorg, Broadband TV News and The Desk

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 …

Discussion: Apple Podcasts for Creators, Music Business Worldwide, Podnews, Music Ally, AppleInsider, RAIN News, The Information, The Verge, 9to5Mac and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Poynter, @omunderdal, @davidfolkenflik, The Daily Beast, Billboard and RADIO ONLINE

Jay Peters / The Verge:

Meta plans to roll out a more capable web app for Threads in the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed — Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Insider, The Information and Mashable SEA, more at Techmeme »

Kerry Flynn / Axios:

Mather Economics buys AI tool Sophi, which recommends when publishers should show readers a paywall, from The Globe and Mail; Sophi works with 100 newsrooms — - Kerry Flynn, author of Axios Pro: Media Deals — Exit Content Preview — Atlanta-based consultancy Mather Economics …

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.

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.”

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

Discussion: @alexwitzleben, @johnobrennan2, @mandoline_blue, @kenroth, @luighseach, @youarelobbylud, New Statesman and Financial Times

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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Nick Clegg says Meta now lets Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with EU DSA

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Australian Financial Review:
A profile of Sky News Australia CEO Paul Whittaker, who critics say turned the broadcaster into an antipodean Fox News, as Sky News expands its YouTube push

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Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more

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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lachlan Murdoch pays Crikey ~A$1.3M in legal costs for his failed defamation suit, on the condition the outlet has to donate ~A$589K it raised in crowdfunding

Discussion: Crikey, Australian Financial Review, @markdistef, @aubreybelford and Sydney Morning Herald

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

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

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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

Discussion: @pressgazette, @pressgazette and @pressgazette

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

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

Discussion: Media Voices, @tycarver, @michellemanafy, @lucas_shaw and The Information

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Kendall Baker, who led Axios Sports and now heads up newsletters at Yahoo Sports, on sports media competitors, what attracted him to Yahoo, and more

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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
Analysis: 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz are in Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J

Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
How The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Sun, The Independent, and other publishers are using non-news verticals to grow revenue, traffic, and subscribers

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta adds Dina Powell McCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison to its board

Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into how personal data in public X posts was used to train xAI's Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and the US

Financial Times:
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence raised $2B led by Greenoaks at a $32B valuation; SSI last raised $1B at a $5B valuation in September 2024

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