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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Gannett is hiring a full-time Taylor Swift Reporter to cover Swift's fanbase and her effect on pop culture as she embarks on the next stage of her Eras Tour — The chance to report on Taylor Swift full-time just debuted. — Millions of Americans encounter the immovable force that is Taylor Swift …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Source: The White House plans to send a letter to US news executives, including CNN and The NYT, urging them to “ramp up” their scrutiny of House Republicans — The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny …
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Tim Starks / Washington Post:
Researchers: the iPhone of Meduza owner Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus in Germany, the first known case of the tool being used against a Russian — Unclear is who planted the spyware while the founder of the Meduza news outlet was in Germany — The iPhone of a prominent Russian …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
NYC's pension funds sue Fox, accusing the company of neglecting its shareholder duties by opening itself up to defamation lawsuits tied to the 2020 US election — The funds accuse the Fox Corporation board of neglecting its responsibility to shareholders by leaving the company open to defamation lawsuits.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Showcase to let US-based artists with 1,000+ streams in the past 28 days pay to promote their work in the app's revamped Home feed — Spotify this week launched a new tool called Showcase that allows artists to promote their work directly in the streaming app's revamped Home feed introduced earlier this year.
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Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI announces text-to-audio tool Stable Audio, available for free for 20 songs and 20-second tracks or $12/month for 500 songs and 90-second tracks — What comes after building generative AI technology for image and code generation? For Stability AI, it's text-to-audio generation.
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Adobe plans to pay bonuses to stock image service Stock contributors when their photos and illustrations are used to train its Firefly generative AI models — Now that Adobe's Firefly generative AI models are now generally available. One feature that always made Firefly stand out from a crowd …
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Dan Kennedy / Nieman Lab:
The Colorado Sun, a five-year-old for-profit digital news organization launched by former The Denver Post journalists, moves toward a nonprofit model — “Whether I agree with it or not, whether I even like it or not, the reality is that many individuals, many institutions and philanthropic groups …
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Elena Kostyuchenko / The Guardian:
A female Russian journalist, who worked for Novaya Gazeta before its closure and now works for Meduza, describes escaping Russia and being poisoned in Germany — My reporting on the invasion of Ukraine led to an assassination order being issued - and then came the mysterious illness
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
iSpot.tv acquires 605, the data and analytics company founded by AMC Networks CEO Kristin Dolan, bringing its total available TV device footprint to 82.7M — With the acquisition of the AMC Networks CEO's company, iSpot will add set-top box data from 16.6 million homes, bringing its total available TV device footprint to 82.7 million.
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
VideoAmp, which offers audience and ad measurement tools, raised a $150M Series G from Vista Credit Partners at the same $1.4B valuation as its Series F in 2021 — - Kerry Flynn, author of Axios Pro: Media Deals — Exit Content Preview — Media measurement firm VideoAmp has raised $150 million …
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New York Times:
Ex-NFL Network reporter Jim Trotter sues the NFL for racial discrimination, alleging his contract wasn't renewed after he called out the NFL's lack of diversity — Jim Trotter said his contract with the NFL Network was not renewed after he challenged Commissioner Roger Goodell and other executives …
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