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11:20 AM ET, May 17, 2026

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Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
A look at local news outlet Lexington Observer, whose primary revenue comes from acting as an intermediary between foundations and other local outlets  —  The Lexington Observer, like other local news startups that have sprouted in Greater Boston, has a bare-bones reporting team to cover town government …
Discussion: Media Nation
John S.W. MacDonald / New York Times:
FiveThirtyEight's archived website now redirects readers to ABC News; many thousands of articles dating back to FiveThirtyEight's founding in 2008 have vanished  —  The influential polling analysis site was shut down last year, but an earlier archived version, fivethirtyeight.com, had lived on.
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 …
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.
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.
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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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
Elisa Shearer / Pew Research Center:
When asked what it means to be a good news consumer, 20% of US adults mention being discerning, 17% following the news, 13% getting news from quality sources
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image and likeness, by trademarking video and audio clips of himself
Discussion: E! Online and @kennysmith.org
Axios:
Sources: Paramount is weighing expanding its podcast business into distribution and has had talks with Katie Miller, the Paragon Collective, and Jubilee Media
 

 
From Techmeme:

Katie Paul / Reuters:
At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been

Business Insider:
Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado”

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems
 
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