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8:20 AM ET, October 4, 2024

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ProPublica:
Sources and records: Trump Media has forced out its COO, CPO, and other executives after internal allegations that CEO Devin Nunes is mismanaging the company  —  Several people involved with the former president's company, operator of Truth Social, believe the departures …
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
A study finds Australia has the second-highest media concentration in the world after Brazil; in the newspaper sector, four companies control 84% of the market  —  Google and Meta should fund traditional public interest journalism, a new international study reports
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more  —  Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems  —  The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
Pat Dooris / KGW-TV:
Willamette Week's owner plans to launch the Oregon Journalism Project as nonprofit news orgs aim to fill the void left by Oregon's receding print publications  —  The people behind Willamette Week will soon launch the Oregon Journalism Project, joining a burgeoning group of nonprofit news outfits looking to fill the gaps.
Discussion: Oregonian
CNN:
Melania Trump's book publisher asked CNN to sign an NDA and pay $250K to interview her, but then called the request a “miscommunication”  —  Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump's book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir.
Martyn Ziegler / The Times:
Reuters withdraws two stories on the World Anti-Doping Agency after it was found that WADA's media head received a Reuters press pass for the Masters golf event  —  World Anti-Doping Agency media chief James Fitzgerald accredited for golf event via Reuters, who have admitted to ‘a violation of our journalistic standards’
 
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Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Thomson Reuters agrees to sell FindLaw, which provides legal information, to Internet Brands, which owns WebMD and more, in a deal expected to close in Q4 2024
Discussion: Thomson Reuters
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Samsung TV Plus adds about 4,000 hours of ad-supported, free-to-stream Korean shows and movies, following deals with CJ ENM and others
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page
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Reuters:
Tanzania suspends the digital content licenses of a local media company for 30 days for allegedly publishing content damaging the country's image
Discussion: BBC and The Guardian
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
After reporter Christine Brennan asked a WNBA player a question the latter saw as race baiting, the players association says she doesn't “deserve” credentials
Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
The BBC cancels a planned Boris Johnson interview after presenter Laura Kuenssberg says she accidentally sent the former UK prime minister her briefing notes