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Leaked recording: in a meeting, Scott Pelley told Nick Bilton he had “slender” qualifications for his new job; Bilton said Pelley would not “intimidate” him — In an explosive staff meeting, Mr. Pelley, a correspondent for the long-running Sunday news show …
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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Sources: in a heated meeting with 60 Minutes staff and new executive producer Nick Bilton, correspondent Scott Pelley said Bari Weiss is “murdering” the show — Pelley reportedly rebuked CBS ousting show's executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The DOD designates its press office a classified space and bans journalists from accessing it, saying speechwriters in the facility handle classified material — The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels — Meta is testing a new “Series” feature for Reels that's designed to make it easier to keep up with serialized content on Instagram and Facebook, the company told TechCrunch.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions — On Tuesday, Elon Musk-owned social network X launched a new feature, “React with Video,” that aims to expand the types of commentary on the platform.
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Barry Diller, now 84, a studio executive-turned-digital-brand- builder-turned-publishing-magnate, who has made a career of unexpected wagers — The legendary executive has pivoted from TV to film, then digital businesses and magazine publishing. Now he is going all-in on casinos.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM partners with Tubi on a non-exclusive distribution and advertising deal for a selection of its podcasts, including Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend — The audio giant has struck a distribution and advertising deal to put podcasts on the free streamer.
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Dan Murphy / ESPN:
Letter: Congress summons NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify June 10 about the league's broadcast deals and whether it should retain antitrust exemptions — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been summoned by Congress to testify about the league's broadcast contracts and whether …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House Correspondents' Association reschedules its annual dinner to July 24 with “significantly enhanced safety measures”; the event's venue is TBD — The White House Correspondents' Association is rescheduling its annual dinner for July 24, in what will be a more intimate event with “enhanced safety measures.”
Carla Sertin / Wired:
Q&A with Palestinian journalist Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh, who runs @Muslim with 14M+ social media followers, on appealing to younger readers, Meta, Trump, and more — Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh was just trying to find an outlet for Muslim news. Now he has more than 12 million followers.
Adam Makary / Wired Middle East:
How journalists in Sudan are turning to encrypted networks, satellite imagery, and citizen reporting to document the war, as militias restrict media operations — As access collapses, journalists turn to encrypted networks, satellite imagery and citizen reporting to document the war.
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The Week
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety — The changes, after Meta's legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Condé Nast shifts Glamour's business model to prioritize affiliate-link commerce over journalism, a stark example of how women's magazines have declined — Job cuts at Glamour and a greater focus on posts with shopping tips offer one of the clearest examples of the waning reign of women's magazines.
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ROB SHUTER'S Naughty But Nice and Althouse
The New York Times Company:
A.G. Sulzberger says NYT has spent over $20M on legal fees over the past two and a half years on its AI lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity — A.G. spoke today at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, delivering these prepared remarks. — The era of artificial intelligence announced …
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Corbin Bolies / Variety:
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says AI companies are making choices that “violate settled law” and could lead to “a great deal of unnecessary harm” to the news business
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says AI companies are making choices that “violate settled law” and could lead to “a great deal of unnecessary harm” to the news business
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