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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
A look at some of the projects looking to raise money from Democratic megadonors as party strategists try to “find the next Joe Rogan” — At private gatherings, strategists and donors are swapping ideas to help the party capture the digital mojo that helped President Trump win.
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
LA mayor Karen Bass issues an executive directive to streamline city processes, lower filming costs, and ease shoots at well-known city-owned locations — With film and TV production in Los Angeles down by roughly one-third in recent years, Mayor Karen Bass took steps to make it easier to shoot at top locations.
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
The Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a supplement featuring an AI-generated guide to summer books that do not exist — Well, this is embarrassing. The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have been caught running an AI-generated guide to summer books that don't exist.
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Saleah Blancaflor / Adweek:
IAB releases its updated Terms for Digital Advertising Agreements and opens a 60-day public comment period until July 21; IAB last updated its T&Cs in 2010 — The public comment period will be open for 60 days until July 21 — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) …
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
ITV tells staff it plans to cut 220 jobs in a major daytime overhaul, which includes scaling back shows and moving Good Morning Britain to ITV News producer ITN — ITV will make more than 220 redundancies under the sweeping changes, but it has promised to reinvest all savings …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Three US senators send Shari Redstone a letter questioning whether Paramount is engaging in bribery by settling Trump's lawsuit to influence merger approval — Lawmakers raise concerns that CBS News parent Paramount risks violating bribery laws in pursuit of potential Trump settlement
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Jake Tapper / @jaketapper:
Source: Paramount could settle with President Trump for as much as $30M to $50M
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CNBC:
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, alongside a new AI filmmaking tool Flow and expanded access to Lyria 2 — Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. — The artificial intelligence tool competes …
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Killian Faith-Kelly / Press Gazette:
An interview with Jonathan Nunn, founder of Vittles, a newsletter about food that has 84,000 subscribers, on the decision to launch a biannual print magazine — Why popular food Substack-based newsletter Vittles has launched a magazine. — The first time Vittles founder Jonathan Nunn read …
Bill Adair / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Richard Gingras, Google's longtime global VP for news who announced his retirement last week, on the news industry's decline, AI, local news, and more — “If there's a regret, it's that I was not as effective as I would have liked to be in influencing and driving change across the board.”
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of Tony Reali as Around the Horn, the ESPN show that he hosts and which showcases sportswriters, draws to an end on May 23 — Canceled by the network, an ESPN staple ends this week. Its longtime host is still trying to understand why — and what's next.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
The ad-supported web is dying and may be replaced by the agentic web, on which web native digital payments, including micropayments, are viable — Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: … Marc Andreessen, who was there when the web was born, explained in a 2019 podcast why this sin was committed …
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Allan Thygesen on LinkedIn, @stratechery, Shelly Palmer and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Matt Grobar / Deadline:
Darren Aronofsky's AI-focused studio Primordial Soup partners with Google's DeepMind to produce three short films — Under the partnership, Primordial Soup team will work with Google DeepMind's research team and three filmmakers to produce short films integrating new technology and storytelling.
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