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Oliver Darcy / Status:
White House officials appear to be withholding pool reporters' dispatches that contain information the Trump administration finds inconvenient or unflattering — Some White House pool reports are no longer making it to the official distribution list, Status has learned …
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US judge orders the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the AP while the AP's lawsuit moves forward
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Media and tech stocks jump after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with WBD closing up 17%+, Netflix up 8%+, Disney up 12%+, and Meta up 14%+ — The S&P 500 jumped nearly 8% Wednesday following President Donald Trump's announcement that a 90-day pause would be put on the proposed tariffs for non-retaliating countries.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
YouTube, the RIAA, and SAG-AFTRA express support for the reintroduced NO FAKES Act, which standardizes rules around making AI copies of a person's likeness — The legislation that would establish rules around the use of AI copies of someone's likeness is once again up for consideration.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, James Cameron says he is cautiously optimistic about generative AI's role in filmmaking, including cutting costs — In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filmmaker weighs in on Stability AI and VFX, “in the style of” prompts …
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Meta on YouTube, The Wrap, Daily Mail, Variety and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Trump accuses ex-DHS official Miles Taylor of treason and directs the DOJ to investigate him over his “anonymous” essay and book criticizing Trump's first term — Want to avoid video ads? Subscribe to — President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department …
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Reuters:
A Delaware judge rules Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems with its false reporting accusing Dominion of rigging the 2020 US presidential election — Conservative news outlet Newsmax Media (NMAX.N) defamed Dominion Voting Systems with its false reporting accusing the voting machine company …
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Elliot Grainge, the 31-year-old son of UMG chief Lucian Grainge who was recently appointed Atlantic Records CEO to lead the label in the TikTok era — The 31-year-old music scion Elliot Grainge has been tasked with shepherding a 77-year-old music label into the modern era
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Digital Music News, The Information and Music Business Worldwide
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A NY jury orders Oscar-nominated director James Toback to pay $1.68B to 40 women who accused him of abusing his power to sexually assault women for four decades — Director James Toback, who was among the first to be singled out in the #MeToo scandal in 2017, was ordered on Wednesday …
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Calum Marsh / New York Times:
A look at Sound of Freedom maker Angel Studios, which uses its streaming subscribers' feedback to greenlight projects, as it expands beyond faith-based content — The company behind “Sound of Freedom” follows an unusual strategy that relies on an army of subscribers to its streaming platform.
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Brandon Purdie on LinkedIn and Rolling Stone
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state identified via their online activity — Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Dow Jones and WSJ UK management end voluntary recognition talks with the NUJ to instead recognize News Union, which is funded by sister company News UK — Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal UK management have halted voluntary recognition talks with the National Union of Journalists …
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Talking Biz News and National Union of Journalists …
Lauren Sherman / @lapresmidi:
Condé Nast names Vanity Fair deputy editor Daniel Kile as interim EIC while it searches for a successor to Radhika Jones — News: Vanity Fair deputy editor Daniel Kile has been named INTERIM EIC while Conde Nast searches for a successor to Radhika Jones. Read more about the succession search on Line Sheet @PuckNews https://puck.news/...
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@grynbaum and @zineeditor.bsky.social
Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles — Wide-ranging research from Poynter and the University of Minnesota sheds light on how people feel about AI in journalism. It's not pretty.
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