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WaPo CEO Will Lewis and top editor Matt Murray send memos trying to reassure staff, and former CEO Patty Stonesifer visits the newsroom, after a week of tumult — Will Lewis, the chief executive, pledged to employees to ‘improve how well I listen,’ while Matt Murray, the new editor, tried to reassure staff members.
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Will Lewis criticizes reports that he tried to suppress stories on his ties to a phone hacking case and calls David Folkenflik an activist, not a journalist — In a statement Thursday, William Lewis pushes back at media outlets' accounts of events leading up to Post editor Sally Buzbee's abrupt departure on Sunday.
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The recent crisis at The Washington Post suggests that CEO Will Lewis has no idea how the media operates, and his fast-growing credibility problem may undo him — The crisis at the newspaper suggests the publisher has no idea about how the media operates. — The oldest axiom in journalism …
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Will Lewis repeatedly offered an exclusive interview about WaPo's future, in exchange for dropping a story on claims he helped cover up UK phone hacking scandal — The Washington Post has written twice this spring about allegations that have cropped up in British court proceedings involving its new publisher and CEO, Will Lewis.
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Google signs a deal with The Canadian Journalism Collective to distribute the CA$100M the company has promised to Canadian news companies in 2023 — Google names group to dole out $100M to news — OTTAWA - Google announced which organization it has selected to distribute the $100 million …

Sources: WBD, home of TNT Sports, strikes a $650M deal for US rights to the French Open for 10 years, with plans to air the event on cable networks and Max — Warner Bros. Discovery has a 10-year, $650 million deal in place to be the new home of the French Open in the United States beginning in 2025 …
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AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature — The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications …

Sources: WBD would like the NBA to consider a “fourth package”, which would carve out a small package of games rights, alongside Disney's, Amazon's, and NBCU's — The media company has signaled in recent days to the NBA that it would like to discuss the prospect of carving …
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Some unionized journalists at the NYT, Reuters, and others criticize the NewsGuild over organizing costs and union leaders' left-leaning criticism of journalism — The Scoop — A top news union's organizing costs and some of its leaders' outspoken left-leaning criticism of journalism …
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A judge, not a jury, will give the verdict in the antitrust trial about Google's ad business, after Google paid $2.3M to cover US government's monetary damages — A judge rather than a jury will decide whether Google violated federal antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising.
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NY passes legislation that would protect actors' voices and likenesses from being digitally replicated without consent; the bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature — “[These are] the most essential parts of who we are and the work we do,” SAG's Rebecca Damon says of the Digital Contracts Act
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Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his personal assets to pay Sandy Hook families under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, in a move that could end his ownership of Infowars — Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families …
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