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Anita Komuves / Reuters:
A look at changes to Hungary's media since Viktor Orban's loss: more opposition voices and the most popular TV channel canceled its flagship news broadcast — The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, a key pillar of the nationalist leader's 16 years in power …
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@adambear.bsky.social, @jayrosen.bsky.social, @petraguasti and Bloomberg
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 …
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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.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events — Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.
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The Decoder, The Indian Express, Gizmodo, Andon Labs and Business Insider
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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@apnewsguild, @juanlozano70, @kkruesi, @aseligmanap, @stephenj_caruso, @brianstelter, @houseofbuddy, @mikesisak, The Wrap, @mikesisak and Newser
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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@thefloridatrib.bsky.social, @craigtimes.bsky.social, Mediaite and Washington Times
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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The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Decoder, @miasato.bsky.social, Google Help Center and Bloomberg Law
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.
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 …
Discussion:
New York Post, U.S. Home and @benmullin
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.
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
Discussion:
@jeremymbarr, @knibbs, @brianstelter, @robcrilly and Washington Examiner
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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