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Liam Reilly / CNN:
The Washington Post Guild reaches a tentative deal on a new contract, guaranteeing employee essential rights, securing raises, and nearly doubling salary floors — The Washington Post Guild, the union that represents roughly 1,000 of the newspaper's staffers, reached a tentative agreement Friday …
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
The Washington Post Guild says “the company seems to have exceeded its buyout goal” — Managers “are attempting to bribe some colleagues to stay,” the Washington Post Guild told members Tuesday. — More people than expected have volunteered to take buyouts from the Washington Post …
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Ken White / The Popehat Report:
Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money — Dealing With Nazis, Or Not, Can Be A Brand. Substack's Monetizing It. — Substack has Nazis, because of course it does.
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie doubles down on not moderating Nazi content, after 200+ authors criticize the company for “platforming and monetizing Nazis” — More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it's “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” …
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Spotify pulls support for two music festivals in France, in protest against a new tax that would impose a levy of 1.5% to 1.75% on all music streaming services — Spotify is pulling support for two music festivals in protest against a controversial new tax directed at music-streaming platforms operating …
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Tory Shepherd / The Guardian:
Australian ABC radio journalist Antoinette Lattouf files an unlawful termination claim, saying she was fired over her social media posts on the Israel-Hamas war — Journalist's submission seeks a declaration the ABC breached the Fair Work Act, compensation and a penalty for the broadcaster
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New York Times:
Sources: Apple discussed multiyear deals worth $50M+ with publishers including NBC News, Condé Nast, and IAC to train its generative AI systems on news articles — The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative A.I. systems on publishers' news articles.
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Lionsgate unveils a deal to spin off its studios business, comprising its TV and movie divisions and a 20K-title library, via a SPAC merger at a $4.6B valuation — The Hollywood giant has tied up with a blank check company to create a separately traded public company and eventually separate its studio businesss from Starz.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A look at the financial pressures on National Amusements and Paramount, as Shari Redstone weighs a sale of her family's controlling stake in National Amusements — She fought to keep control of her family's media empire. Now she's considering an exit as financial pressures mount.
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Reuters:
Some analysts say a WBD and Paramount merger would likely leave the companies “worse off”: billions deeper in debt and saddled with dying traditional TV assets
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Albany Times Union:
A hyperlocal site falsely reported a murder in Newburgh, New York, prompting a debate about its media ethics and the city's policy for handling media inquiries — A hyperlocal news site falsely reports a killing, and city officials pounce — NEWBURGH — On Dec. 4, a hyperlocal digital news site based …
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Ashley Joannou / Canadian Press:
Local News Research Project: 36 local news outlets closed in Canada in 2023 through December 1; 29 were community papers and seven were private radio stations — Online News Act: Canada caps how much private broadcasters will get from Google deal — Jessica Wallace stood in Ottawa's Rideau Hall …
Lauren Leffer / Scientific American:
In five experiments, encouraging people to use search engines to evaluate the veracity of fake news posts increased the likelihood of them being rated as true — Data voids in search results can lead down rabbit holes that bolster belief in fake news — Politics
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BBC:
Investigation: Russia-linked The DC Weekly, which features AI-written “news” stories and “reporters” with fake names and photos, fueled a false Zelenskyy claim — A website founded by a former US Marine who now lives in Russia has fuelled a rumour that Volodymyr Zelensky purchased …
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