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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Internal email: WWE President Nick Khan says Vince McMahon resigned as TKO Executive Chairman and from the TKO board, and no longer has a role with TKO or WWE — The WWE founder faced allegations of battery and sex trafficking by a former employee. … Following allegations of battery …
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with Washington Post CEO Will Lewis about his plans for the newspaper, including making its footprint bigger, lack of a Trump Bump, media layoffs, more — On Sir Will Lewis' 17th day as CEO of the Washington Post, Washington media celebrated him in its particularly small-town way …
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Jon Franklin, a pioneer of literary journalism who won two Pulitzer Prizes for stories published in The Baltimore Evening Sun, died on January 21 at age 82 — He won two Pulitzer Prizes by transforming accounts of doctors at work into in-depth, narrative articles that read like dramatic short stories.
Gretel Kahn / Reuters Institute:
Emerging journalists from Europe, North America, and Latin America discuss the challenges they face entering the news industry, like high tuition and low pay — Reporters put up with low salaries, long hours and uninspiring roles in the hope they will find a full-time job. Many may never have one
New York Times:
Sources: LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong clashed with editor Kevin Merida over an published article about a wealthy doctor and his dog, before Merida stepped down — The owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, had raised concerns with Kevin Merida, who stepped down this month, over reporting about a wealthy doctor and his dog.
Tim Harford / Financial Times:
With high-stakes elections in 2024, some experts are worried that a piece of disinformation potentially involving a deepfake might soon have a calamitous impact — Fakes, forgeries and the meaning of meaning in our post-truth hellscape — Not long after Eric Hebborn was murdered …
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The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA calls for laws making the development and distribution of false AI images illegal, following the release of sexually explicit AI fakes of Taylor Swift — The Biden administration also spoke out on Thursday — Following the release of faked, sexually explicit images …
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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
A look at women's blog The Hairpin, which has been resurrected by a Serbian DJ after its 2018 shutdown and is now filled with SEO-optimized, AI-generated trash — Beloved women's website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead to churn out AI clickbait.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
404 Media outlines the reasons it wants to reach readers directly via email, including social media fragmentation and AI spam making discoverability tougher — You might have noticed that over the last few days, we've begun requiring readers to sign up with email addresses to read most of the articles on our website.
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Supporters of Israel are using apps to mass report pro-Palestinian content online, raising questions for tech platforms over “citizen-led propaganda” campaigns — The apps raise questions for tech platforms over ‘citizen-led propaganda’ campaigns, experts say
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Analysis: conservative calculations put media job losses at over 650 people so far in January, compared to around 983 journalism cuts in January 2023 — Big losses at likes of Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated and Mediahuis Ireland in the first weeks of 2024.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
A profile of Anna Jones, Telegraph Media Group's first female CEO, who took over at possibly the most tumultuous time in the rightwing title's 169-year history — The first woman to lead the Telegraph Media Group has been described as ‘extraordinarily energetic, motivated and driven’
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Cameron Joseph / Columbia Journalism Review:
As newspapers cut DC reporters, they can no longer pressure legislators on local issues or inform readers about their legislators' performance — This week sucked. — On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 people, more than 20 percent of its total staff.
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