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Financial Times:
US-based hedge fund Hunterbrook launches its newsroom, Hunterbrook Media, after raising $100M to make trades based on scoops uncovered by its reporters — Target of Hunterbrook's first story questions ethics of it taking a short position in its stock — A US hedge fund has raised $100mn …
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@zachcrenshaw, @readdanwrite, @danielmcglynn, @geraldbourguet, @bondhack, Hunterbrook, @pablofindsout, @sammykoppelman, @bondhack, @osinttechnical, @archiehall, @hntrbrkmedia, @hntrbrkmedia, @matt_termine, @hntrbrkmedia, @hntrbrkmedia, @osinttechnical, @baileycarlin, @eisingerj, @hntrbrkmedia, @hntrbrkmedia, Bloomberg, Hunterbrook, @zachcrenshaw, @jsphctrl, @arashmassoudi, @matt_levine, @hntrbrkmedia, @lawindsor, @hntrbrkmedia and Hacker News
Bloomberg:
Sources: Vanguard Group, the biggest investor in Disney with a roughly 8.3% stake, is voting for Disney's board nominees at the annual meeting on April 3 — NYC Comptroller on Disney Proxy Fight, Congestion Pricing … Vanguard is the biggest investor in Disney, with a roughly 8.3% stake, Bloomberg-compiled data show.
Reuters:
Sudan's state news agency says the information ministry has suspended Saudi state-owned broadcasters Al Arabiya and Al Hadath plus UAE-owned Sky News Arabia — Sudan on Tuesday suspended the work of Saudi state-owned broadcasters Al Arabiya, Al Hadath and UAE-owned Sky News Arabia channel …
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@hassanahmedberk and @patrickheinisc1
John Hanna / Associated Press:
The Marion County Record's parent and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, file a federal lawsuit over police raids of its offices and Meyer's home in 2023 — A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices …
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Kansas Reflector, The Wrap and Media Nation
Adrian Carrasquillo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Biden plans an April 4 interview with Univision's Enrique Acevedo; Acevedo was broadly criticized after his November 2023 “softball” interview of Trump — Vanity Fair has learned that Joe Biden is sitting down this week with veteran journalist Enrique Acevedo …
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@bsdtectr.bsky.social and CNN
Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump sues two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, claiming they set the company up wrong and shouldn't get stock; the two earlier sued Trump — - He claims they bungled their duties, forfeiting their stock — Trump Media shares plunged less than a week after going public
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CNN, WATE 6 On Your Side, Wccftech, Boing Boing, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, The Wrap and Rolling Stone
Carly Sauvageau / The Nevada Independent:
A look at The Ely Times and The Eureka Sentinel, among Nevada's oldest surviving papers, which announced a deal in January to go online-only under a new owner — Nathan Robertson arrives at Ely City Hall looking much like one would expect of the mayor of a remote town near the Great Basin National Park …
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@progressfornv and @howardstutz
New York Times:
An interview with Oren Etzioni, the founder of nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which has released free AI tools for reporters and fact checkers to identify deepfakes — Oren Etzioni worries A.I.-generated fakes could overwhelm upcoming elections.Kyle Johnson for The New York Times
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GeekWire, @timfinin, @toddbishop, @truemediadotorg, @truemediadotorg, TrueMedia.org, TrueMedia.org and The Information, more at Techmeme »
Tyler Jett / Des Moines Register:
Iowa officials settle a suit with independent political blogger Laura Belin, who was denied a press pass to the legislature; Iowa will pay her attorneys $49K — Iowa state officials agreed Tuesday to pay attorney's fees and change state House policies to settle a lawsuit from a liberal blogger …
Christopher Kuo / New York Times:
George Carlin's estate settles with the makers of Dudesy, who agree to remove their YouTube video and podcast they originally claimed used an “AI” George Carlin — The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin's work.
Discussion:
Associated Press, Deadline, Variety, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter and Rolling Stone
Sara Fischer / Axios:
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her” — - “Apple's conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech.
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The Daily Show on YouTube, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Lam on LinkedIn, Ben Kornell on LinkedIn, The Information, @benremaly, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, @thedailyshow, @jason_kint, Rafael Brown on LinkedIn, @lutherlowe, @linakhanftc, @nick_field90, Paul Lobosco on LinkedIn, HuffPost, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Hill, IndieWire, Fortune, Fox Business, The Verge, New York Post, @ashleygjovik, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @lutherlowe, @carlyshandle, @douglaslfarrar, @wbm312, Decider, @ddayen, Vanity Fair, Quartz, UPROXX, Rolling Stone, CNN, Business Insider, The Wrap, 9to5Mac and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
David Pierce / The Verge:
Yahoo acquires the news app Artifact, shuts down its standalone app, and plans to use its technology on Yahoo News and other services in the coming months — Instagram's co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale.
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Yahoo, @mikeisaac, @tomwarren, @2ajit2tweet, @mcwm, @jlanzone, Quartz, @y_molodtsov, @mgsiegler, @artifact_news, @mediaevan, @mjburnsy, @kerrymflynn, On my Om, @yevp, @alex, @ryanspoon, Observer, @carnage4life@threads.net, The Wrap, Andrew Machado on LinkedIn, @simondowens@threads.net, @eaustinj@threads.net, @parkerortolani@threads.net, Sona Iliffe-Moon on LinkedIn, @imdavidpierce@threads.net and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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