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Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
The AP laid off an unspecified number of US-based journalists Friday; News Media Guild: 20 were laid off, and ~40 of 120+ journalists offered buyouts took them — The Associated Press laid off 20 U.S.-based journalists on Friday, the union representing them said, part of a restructuring announced …
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Nathaniel Rakich / @baseballot:
ABC News seems to have taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline; the URL redirects to ABC News' politics vertical — ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.
Salt Lake Tribune:
The Salt Lake Tribune drops its paywall, moving from a subscriber model to a member-driven one after turning nonprofit in 2019 and finding financial stability — For the first time in its 155 years, and after years of planning, The Salt Lake Tribune is making its daily journalism free to anyone.
Kate Payne / The Florida Trib:
An investigation reveals the South Florida Standard is one of 17 AI-driven news sites created by online reputation management firm The Discoverability Company — Sham news sites are increasingly common in Florida and across the country, a dangerous development for American democracy
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection, which scans YouTube for facial matches, will now be available to anyone 18 years or older with a YouTube account.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct — A co-host for a popular NPR podcast left the public radio network after it opened an investigation in March into his conduct in the workplace …
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Financial Times:
An interview with Brendan Carr about making the FCC “aggressive”, why he is just “applying the law and the facts”, how Trump's attacks on media worked, more — The chair of the Federal Communications Commission on making the agency more ‘aggressive’, his fight with Disney — and playing golf with the president
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Democracy for Sale:
Docs show how the UK's Society of Media Lawyers lobbied government officials to push back on anti-SLAPP legislation, arguing it will enable abuse by the press — Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Paramount's WBD deal to absorb HBO Max may breach its joint venture agreement with Comcast to avoid direct streaming competition in European markets — Industry sources said Paramount's proposed ownership of HBO Max will likely put the David Ellison-run company in breach …
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A New York judge overseeing the third trial over a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein declares a mistrial after the jury said it was deadlocked — New York prosecutors will have to decide whether to pursue a third trial in Manhattan on a rape charge. — The New York judge overseeing …
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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
The Guardian says it is “concerned” after Nigel Farage posted the press credentials of a Guardian photographer who had taken his picture — Reform leader Nigel Farage has said being visited by a Guardian photographer underlined why he needed extra security.
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Decrypt, The Guardian and National Union of Journalists …
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
The NYT defends Nicholas Kristof's op-ed “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”, calling it “deeply reported”, after Israeli government criticism — “Details were extensively fact-checked, with accounts further cross-referenced with news reporting …
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The Guardian:
Israel threatens to sue the NYT for defamation over the article on sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners but the legal viability of the lawsuit is in doubt
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