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2024-10-12 05:55:46

A review of Submerged, the first scripted short film shot in Apple's Immersive Video for the Vision Pro: technologically impressive, but an isolating experience (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/10/24266816/submerged-apple-vision-pro-immersive-film
http://mediagazer.com/241012/p1#a241012p1

2024-10-09 01:05:38

Filmmaker Errol Morris, who made Separated, a documentary on Trump's child separation policy, questions why NBC has delayed its release until after the election (Oliver Darcy/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/why-is-nbc-news-burying-a-documentary-on-trump-family-separation-policy-until-after-election/
http://mediagazer.com/241008/p22#a241008p22

2024-10-03 06:50:43

A look at the struggle to release The Apprentice, a "Frankenstein origin story about Donald Trump", ahead of the US election after Trump threatened to sue (Gabriel Sherman/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-fight-to-release-the-apprentice
http://mediagazer.com/241003/p2#a241003p2

2024-10-01 13:50:28

CNN launches a paywall, asking US visitors of its website to pay $3.99 per month for access after they consume a certain number of free articles (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/cnn-launch-digital-subscription-paywall/
http://mediagazer.com/241001/p9#a241001p9

2024-10-01 12:05:28

In his first public address since his prison release, Julian Assange says he was freed because he "pled guilty to journalism", not because the system worked (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/julian-assange-statement-council-europe-5373cfb854474deba0e5799b23cb8d2e
http://mediagazer.com/241001/p7#a241001p7

2024-09-30 16:45:34

Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit's public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
http://mediagazer.com/240930/p11#a240930p11

2024-09-29 06:01:41

Q&A with John Oliver on why he doesn't consider himself a journalist, his frustration with HBO delaying putting his show's segments on YouTube, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/magazine/john-oliver-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU4.xjJi.ewuZHQKsCz9Z&smid=url-share
http://mediagazer.com/240929/p1#a240929p1

2024-09-29 03:05:44

YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/adele-bob-dylan-songs-blocked-by-youtube-legal-dispute-1236159099/
http://mediagazer.com/240928/p4#a240928p4

2024-09-27 21:01:17

NCTJ survey: average UK salary for a reporter in the UK is £34.5K and £45.5K in London; in TV, the average is £50K, in radio £32K and in newspapers £32.2K (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/average-journalists-salary-at-work-survey-nctj-ai-print-online/
http://mediagazer.com/240927/p10#a240927p10

2024-09-18 06:40:42

The foundation backing Washington, DC's Fallen Journalist Memorial unveils concept designs and expects completion in 2028, funded entirely by private donations (Michael Brice-Saddler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/16/journalists-memorial-national-mall-design-dc/
http://mediagazer.com/240918/p1#a240918p1

2024-09-17 11:25:33

Sources: Guardian Media Group is in talks to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media, which would invest £25M in The Observer in the first five years of ownership (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/guardian-media-group-in-talks-to-sell-the-observer-to-tortoise-media-13216602
http://mediagazer.com/240917/p4#a240917p4

2024-09-13 18:25:44

The Guardian ends a voluntary redundancy round that saw ~30 journalists leave and agrees to a two-year pay deal that increases most journalists' salaries 3% (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-nuj-pay-deal/
http://mediagazer.com/240913/p9#a240913p9

2024-09-13 18:05:47

The US State Department says Russia's RT is operating a military procurement network to supply Russian forces and is growing global covert influence operations (Joseph Gedeon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/13/rt-military-supply-russia-00179107
http://mediagazer.com/240913/p8#a240913p8

2024-09-11 21:30:39

Oahu Publications, which owns Hawaii newspapers, is using AI-generated newscasters on the YouTube and Instagram channels of The Garden Island, launched in 1902 (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/historic-newspaper-uses-janky-ai-newscasters-instead-of-human-journalists/
http://mediagazer.com/240911/p12#a240911p12

2024-09-11 21:30:39

2024-09-09 21:25:26

Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, to clone the voices for recordings through a royalty-sharing model (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/amazon-s-audible-to-create-ai-voice-replicas-of-select-audiobook-narrators
http://mediagazer.com/240909/p14#a240909p14

2024-09-08 16:35:25

DirecTV files FCC complaint, accusing Disney of bad faith negotiations and trying to block DirecTV from taking legal action against its anticompetitive demands (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/directv-fcc-complaint-disney-bad-faith-negotiation-1236137207/
http://mediagazer.com/240908/p5#a240908p5

2024-09-06 06:01:01

Threads is trading trust for growth via Meta's creator program, which pays people to post without disclosing, making users assume everyone is engagement farming (Ben Werdmuller/Werd I/O)
https://werd.io/2024/threads-is-trading-trust-for-growth
http://mediagazer.com/240906/p1#a240906p1

2024-09-03 13:10:27

Sources: GB News investor and hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall is poised to buy the Spectator for up to £100M in a deal expected to close by the end of the week (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/sep/03/gb-news-paul-marshall-buy-spectator-telegraph-redbird-imi
http://mediagazer.com/240903/p4#a240903p4

2024-09-02 14:55:27

A New Hampshire man is sentenced to 27 months in prison for harassing New Hampshire Public Radio journalists, including by vandalizing their homes (Amanda Holpuch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/business/media/new-hampshire-man-stalking-reporters-sentenced.html
http://mediagazer.com/240902/p4#a240902p4

2024-09-02 13:55:25

The NYT's article on Trump's and Harris' housing crisis policies is a particularly ugly example of the mainstream media's continued use of false equivalence (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in
http://mediagazer.com/240902/p3#a240902p3

2024-08-30 16:45:34

The Apprentice, the biopic delayed for US distribution by legal threats from Trump, has been acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment for release October 11 (Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/trump-film-the-apprentice-release-date-awards-campaign-1235984424/
http://mediagazer.com/240830/p8#a240830p8

2024-08-29 23:10:34

Filing: a National Labor Relations Board judge will hear a complaint about the June 2022 firing of former Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez (Andrew Beaujon/Washingtonian)
https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/08/28/felicia-sonmez-washington-post-nlrb/
http://mediagazer.com/240829/p17#a240829p17

2024-08-29 06:35:35

A look at Chevron's local news site Permian Proud, produced by the same PR firm behind California's The Richmond Standard, pushing positive oil industry news (Felicia Alvarez/Louisiana Illuminator)
https://lailluminator.com/2024/08/19/chevron-news/
http://mediagazer.com/240829/p1#a240829p1

2024-08-18 15:00:38

The Star Tribune renames to The Minnesota Star Tribune, and plans to expand its statewide coverage, as part of an effort to boost its paid digital subscriptions (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/business/media/star-tribune-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D04.N102.I0CYvATHukSD&smid=url-share
http://mediagazer.com/240818/p2#a240818p2

2024-08-02 18:25:38

OverDrive, which helps libraries and other organizations lend digital catalogs, is integrating its video streaming service Kanopy with its other collections (Andrew Albanese/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/95635-overdrive-forms-new-content-group.html
http://mediagazer.com/240802/p11#a240802p11

2024-08-02 17:05:42

GameStop shuts down Game Informer, the oldest gaming magazine in the US, and lays off staff; launched in 1991, it was among the last print gaming magazines (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.com/game-informer-gamestop-meme-stock-gme-last-issue-1851611973
http://mediagazer.com/240802/p8#a240802p8

2024-08-02 00:55:40

About 500 actors and other SAG-AFTRA members picketed outside WB Games in Burbank over contract protections for workers amid the growth of AI (Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/sag-aftra-video-game-picket-warner-bros-artificial-intelligence-1236093150/
http://mediagazer.com/240801/p27#a240801p27

2024-07-30 10:01:00

Brady Walkinshaw, a former state lawmaker, bought several Index Media publications, including Seattle's longtime alternative media outlet The Stranger (Ashley Hiruko/KUOW News & Information)
https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-stranger-newspaper-sold-to-former-state-legislator-brady-walkinshaw
http://mediagazer.com/240730/p5#a240730p5

2024-07-30 08:25:29

Ampere: regular viewing of non-English language TV shows and movies has grown 24% among 18-to-64-year-olds in the UK, US, Australia, and Canada since Q1 2020 (Advanced Television)
https://advanced-television.com/2024/07/29/research-viewing-of-foreign-content-up-24-in-english-markets/
http://mediagazer.com/240730/p3#a240730p3

2024-07-24 13:15:27

The EU raises concerns over the independence of Italy's public broadcaster Rai after budget cuts and alleged "intimidation" by Giorgia Meloni's government (Laura Dubois/Financial Times)
https://t.co/1hdrreMp3a
http://mediagazer.com/240724/p7#a240724p7

2024-07-19 00:15:41

Sue Mi Terry, wife of WaPo columnist Max Boot, has been charged with acting as an agent of South Korea; the indictment cites a WaPo column she wrote with Boot (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/16/terry-south-korea-cia-fara/
http://mediagazer.com/240718/p18#a240718p18

2024-07-17 17:50:31

A UK judge rules that a sex offender's name can be published following an application by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and a freelance journalist (Hannah Summers/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/17/journalists-win-court-fight-to-publish-uk-sex-offender-name
http://mediagazer.com/240717/p10#a240717p10

2024-07-11 23:55:25

CNN says it has integrated its Race and Equality team of reporters to other areas across its platforms, instead of the team existing in an "organizational silo" (Phil Lewis/What I'm Reading)
https://www.whatimreading.net/p/cnn-disbands-race-and-equality-team
http://mediagazer.com/240711/p13#a240711p13

2024-07-11 21:05:31

Court hearing: Redbox parent CSSE failed to pay payroll taxes for 9 months and didn't pay employees' health insurance for 2.5 months, leaving them uninsured (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)
https://www.lowpass.cc/p/redbox-shutting-down-fraud-allegations
http://mediagazer.com/240711/p12#a240711p12

2024-07-03 02:20:24

Journalists need to reject formulas that have made them ineffective, like presenting "both sides", after the SCOTUS ruling giving presidents unrestricted power (Dan Gillmor)
https://dangillmor.medium.com/at-its-moment-of-peril-democracy-needs-journalists-to-be-activists-8776aa9c99c3
http://mediagazer.com/240702/p21#a240702p21

2024-06-27 23:08:51

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/
http://mediagazer.com/240627/p18#a240627p18

2024-06-27 15:25:35

Chicago Public Media names Vox co-founder Melissa Bell as its new CEO, starting September 3; CPM owns the Chicago Sun-Times and public radio station WBEZ (David Roeder/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2024/06/27/melissa-bell-chicago-public-media-ceo-sun-times-wbez-robert-pasin-vox-media-reuters-institute-washington-post
http://mediagazer.com/240627/p9#a240627p9

2024-06-25 23:07:20

In the last month, Sam Stein, Burgess Everett, and now Jack Shafer have decided to leave Politico; sources: Alex Ward and Lara Seligman are leaving for the WSJ (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/25/2024/top-reporters-leave-politico
http://mediagazer.com/240625/p15#a240625p15

2024-06-25 21:45:33

Assange's plea deal doesn't create an official precedent, but he still had to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act for a "crime" outlets commit regularly (Trevor Timm/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-press-freedom-biden-administration
http://mediagazer.com/240625/p13#a240625p13

2024-06-21 20:55:32

The Baltimore Banner launches a new section, Education Hub, and says it now has 49K paid subscribers, as it celebrates its second birthday (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/the-baltimore-banner-turning-two-celebrates-a-subscriber-bump-and-a-new-education-hub/
http://mediagazer.com/240621/p10#a240621p10

2024-06-20 14:50:26

Sources: Sony is acquiring Queen's music catalog, excluding live performances, for £1B; Disney retains recorded music rights in the US and Canada (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/queen-catalog-acquired-by-sony-music-1-billion-1236042619/
http://mediagazer.com/240620/p5#a240620p5

2024-06-15 23:25:43

A former colleague and records indicate WaPo's Will Lewis and Robert Winnett used fraudulently obtained records in Sunday Times articles in the early 2000s (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/world/europe/will-lewis-records-uk-editor.html
http://mediagazer.com/240615/p3#a240615p3

2024-06-14 22:48:59

A bankruptcy judge orders the liquidation of Alex Jones' personal assets but dismisses for now the bankruptcy case against the company that runs Infowars (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-lawsuit-3ccd113496caee18a085dfa54c6e6c0e
http://mediagazer.com/240614/p11#a240614p11

2024-06-14 01:50:36

The Insider Union asks BI management to share details of its OpenAI licensing deal, citing issues with ChatGPT's inaccurate or missing links to Insider scoops (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/insider-union-chatgpt-hallucinating-links-business-insider-articles-openai-deal/
http://mediagazer.com/240613/p16#a240613p16

2024-06-14 00:05:31

Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
http://mediagazer.com/240613/p15#a240613p15

2024-06-13 19:50:38

A look at the problems of new legislation to support journalism, through state tax money or fees on Big Tech, in California, New York, and Canada (Jeff Jarvis/Whither news?)
https://t.co/eSngTrYJtb
http://mediagazer.com/240613/p13#a240613p13

2024-06-06 18:55:39

Will Lewis repeatedly offered an exclusive interview about WaPo's future, in exchange for dropping a story on claims he helped cover up UK phone hacking scandal (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4995105/washington-post-will-lewis-tries-to-kill-story-buzbee
http://mediagazer.com/240606/p12#a240606p12

2024-06-03 19:40:24

WaPo staffers say they are concerned that Will Lewis is trying to impose a new editorial vision without giving them clarity ahead of the contentious US election (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/media/washington-post-shakeup-buzbee
http://mediagazer.com/240603/p14#a240603p14

2024-06-03 11:55:31

X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content provided it is properly labeled and "not prominently displayed" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/03/x-tweaks-rules-to-formally-allow-adult-content/
http://mediagazer.com/240603/p6#a240603p6

2024-06-01 02:45:41

Meta says 40M+ US and Canadian adults aged 18 to 29 use Facebook daily, the highest number in three years, reflecting efforts to win back younger users (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-30/facebook-pushes-recommendations-to-rival-tiktok-win-back-young-adults
http://mediagazer.com/240531/p16#a240531p16

2024-05-31 08:15:42

Researchers claim just 2,107 US voters, mostly older, white Republican women, accounted for spreading 80% of the fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/misinformation-works-and-a-handful-of-social-supersharers-sent-80-of-it-in-2020/
http://mediagazer.com/240531/p1#a240531p1

2024-05-28 10:20:25

Push alerts from the BBC News app have become hugely influential in the UK; the app has an estimated 12M installs, with ~60% of its users getting notifications (Jim Waterson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/how-bbc-breaking-news-alerts-are-giving-voters--and-political-parties-an-electoral-buzz
http://mediagazer.com/240528/p3#a240528p3

2024-05-26 03:15:38

The Washington Post's decision not to report on the Alito flag story multiple times since 2021, even as SCOTUS ethics stories came out, raises many questions (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington
http://mediagazer.com/240525/p5#a240525p5

2024-05-25 17:50:49

The Washington Post says it knew about the upside-down US flag at Justice Alito's house in 2021 but did not report it as it didn't seem related to politics (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4dS1BCf
http://mediagazer.com/240525/p3#a240525p3

2024-05-25 15:25:47

National Geographic pulled the documentary Retrograde from all its platforms after the Taliban killed an Afghan mine-clearer the 2022 film prominently featured (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/05/22/retrograde-documentary-film-taliban-heineman/
http://mediagazer.com/240525/p2#a240525p2

2024-05-24 15:50:39

Comparisons between streaming bundles and the cable bundle are misplaced: the latter was much more expensive and had channels viewers didn't want and junk fees (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)
https://www.lowpass.cc/p/streaming-cable-bundle-not-the-same
http://mediagazer.com/240524/p5#a240524p5

2024-05-23 13:15:37

TikTok bars videos from state-media accounts from users' main feeds outside their home country and won't allow them to advertise outside their home countries (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/business/tiktok-russia-china-misinformation-elections.html
http://mediagazer.com/240523/p5#a240523p5

2024-05-22 11:30:36

Email: WaPo newsletter editor Elana Zak asked writers not to link to a story on Prince Harry's allegations that new CEO Will Lewis helped with hacking coverups (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/21/2024/washington-post-orders-story-about-ceo-scandal-buried
http://mediagazer.com/240522/p4#a240522p4

2024-05-21 20:55:28

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered ad format that shows shoppers how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-shopping-clothes-fit-different-bodies/
http://mediagazer.com/240521/p19#a240521p19

2024-05-21 13:20:29

Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down a live shot of northern Gaza, accusing the AP of violating Israel's ban on Al Jazeera, which gets AP feeds (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190
http://mediagazer.com/240521/p7#a240521p7

2024-05-20 18:50:27

Studies suggests that media coverage of AI tends to be led by industry sources and often takes their claims about the tech's potential at face value (Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-news-coverage-often-uncritical-helps-build-ai-hype
http://mediagazer.com/240520/p8#a240520p8

2024-05-20 16:35:24

A profile of Charlotte Behrendt, the "inspector general" of NYT's newsroom whose "prosecutorial" style in probing internal matters has rankled some journalists (Charlotte Klein/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/new-york-times-internal-investigations
http://mediagazer.com/240520/p7#a240520p7

2024-05-19 14:40:28

About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
http://mediagazer.com/240519/p5#a240519p5

2024-05-15 06:40:35

The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism funded (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/
http://mediagazer.com/240515/p5#a240515p5

2024-05-10 22:35:48

Talk radio station WABC suspends Rudy Giuliani and cancels his daily show, saying he broke rules by trying to discuss discredited claims about 2020's election (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/nyregion/giuliani-radio-suspended.html
http://mediagazer.com/240510/p14#a240510p14

2024-05-09 15:20:27

At a House hearing on "NPR bias", Republicans criticize NPR CEO's absence but some praise local stations, and witnesses call for decentralizing or defunding NPR (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2024/05/house-hearing-on-npr-bias-brings-criticism-from-republicans-but-praise-for-local-stations/
http://mediagazer.com/240509/p10#a240509p10

2024-05-08 12:35:25

Fox Corp reports Q3 revenue down 15% YoY to $3.4B, ad revenue down 33% YoY to $1.2B, a $704M net income, up from a $50M loss YoY, $1.9B affiliate fee revenue (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fox-q3-earnings-report-ad-revenue-drop-1235893287/
http://mediagazer.com/240508/p5#a240508p5

2024-05-07 21:00:52

Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding strong guardrails to prevent abuse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/metas-ai-tools-for-advertisers-can-now-create-new-images-not-just-new-backgrounds/
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2024-05-07 16:20:30

TikTok sues the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban, saying it violates users' First Amendment rights and divestiture is "simply not possible" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/business/tiktok-ban-appeal.html
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2024-05-04 03:50:33

How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-02/first-major-music-artist-uses-openai-sora-to-create-music-video
http://mediagazer.com/240503/p15#a240503p15

2024-05-04 01:15:24

UNESCO: at least 749 environmental reporters have faced violence and intimidation since 2009, 44 were murdered but that resulted in just five convictions (Patrick Greenfield/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/02/violent-attacks-against-environmental-journalists-on-the-rise-report-finds
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2024-05-01 21:55:31

In a statement, the Student Press Law Center says it's disturbed by reports of assaults and arrest threats against student journalists, and offers legal help (Student Press Law Center)
https://splc.org/2024/05/splc-stands-with-student-journalists-providing-critical-protest-coverage/
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2024-05-01 15:45:36

Roblox expands its immersive video ad format to all advertisers and adds more controls, such as genre targeting and brand suitability, to its Ads Manager (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/games/roblox-opens-immersive-video-ad-format-to-all-advertisers/
http://mediagazer.com/240501/p12#a240501p12

2024-04-30 13:15:39

Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to promote original content, impacting aggregator accounts, and increase distribution for smaller accounts (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24144571/instagram-algorithm-ranking-recommendations-reposted-content
http://mediagazer.com/240430/p10#a240430p10

2024-04-26 18:35:37

Howard Stern of SiriusXM snags a surprise interview with President Biden, following reports of Biden's refusal so far to give The NYT a sit-down interview (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/biden-howard-stern-interview
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2024-04-20 15:30:29

The Trump campaign has denied press credentials for several reporters, often after tough questions or articles; in 2016, it denied them for entire news outlets (Charlotte Klein/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-campaign-reporters-access
http://mediagazer.com/240420/p3#a240420p3

2024-04-19 00:45:38

Hyundai says it is pausing ads on X, after one ad appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi content; the ad appeared on a user profile that had 55K+ followers (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/hyundai-pauses-x-ads-nazi-content-platform-rcna148414
http://mediagazer.com/240418/p16#a240418p16

2024-04-18 18:40:23

CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/18/calmatters-acquires-the-markup
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2024-04-17 23:00:44

A Los Angeles ethics agency fines former CBS CEO Les Moonves $15K for misconduct in obtaining confidential police info about a sexual assault claim against him (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/leslie-moonves-ethics-fine-cbs-sex-assault-investigation-1235974126/
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2024-04-16 09:35:28

Mozilla and CheckFirst: Apple, Google, Meta, and others' ad transparency efforts are a work in progress, months after the EU's DSA mandated a searchable library (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/mozilla-checkfirst-ads-transparency-report/
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2024-04-15 16:38:34

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing "Creator AI" chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's "voice" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology/instagram-influencers-chatbots.html
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2024-04-12 13:35:32

Last week, LinkedIn began letting advertisers pay to amplify posts from some users through Thought Leader ads, as it enters the market of influencer marketing (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/12/linkedin-expands-thought-leader-ads-eyeing-tiktok-and-instagram.html
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2024-04-11 12:35:29

Sources: Spotify is developing tools to let subscribers speed up, mash up, or edit songs, a type of playback feature; rights holders would be paid for the songs (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/spotify-to-let-users-play-dj-competing-with-remixes-on-tiktok-da35e25c
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2024-04-10 19:15:29

Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4583318-schiff-unveils-ai-training-transparency-measure/
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2024-04-09 13:55:24

News Corp reports The Sun revenue down 5% to £305.2M, losses down 48% to £65.9M in the year to July 2, 2023, The Times revenue up 3% to £385.8M, profit down 17% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/news-uk-accounts-the-sun-losses-the-times-profits-talktv/
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2024-04-08 08:15:31

More than 30 Colorado newsrooms, led by COLab, launch a statewide initiative to better cover the 2024 US elections by focusing on voter concerns (Corey Hutchins/Inside the News in Colorado)
https://coloradomedia.substack.com/p/could-colorados-political-journalism
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2024-04-08 04:30:24

Sources say Soros Fund Management's move to became the largest shareholder in radio company Audacy could be the beginning of a bigger audio buying spree (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/07/2024/soros-fund-is-building-an-audio-empire
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2024-04-07 18:55:24

Elon Musk says X is "lifting all restrictions" it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block "certain popular accounts" and is defying the court's ruling (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-challenges-brazils-order-block-certain-x-accounts-2024-04-07/
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2024-04-07 04:20:39

Rep. Jim Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to major advertisers including GroupM to explain why they won't advertise on Truth Social (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/05/jim-jordan-demands-major-ad-companies-explain-why-they-wont-advertise-on-truth-social/
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2024-04-06 12:09:18

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/four-takeaways-on-the-race-to-amass-data-for-ai.html
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2024-04-06 12:05:45

Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html
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2024-04-05 23:40:32

X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel in its trending news section Explore, after Elon Musk said Explore shows customized news created by Grok (Matt Binder/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore
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2024-04-04 21:55:33

Facebook removed every post linking to the Kansas Reflector on April 4; the issue coincidentally arose on the day the Reflector ran a piece critical of Facebook (Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/04/facebook-has-blocked-kansas-reflector-heres-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help/
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2024-04-04 20:05:28

Guardian journalist Hella Pick dies at 96; she spent seven decades as a foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor after fleeing Nazi-annexed Austria in 1938 (Harriet Sherwood/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/04/hella-pick-pioneering-guardian-journalist-dies-aged-96
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2024-04-03 23:31:05

Some of Apple's online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, appear to be down globally since at least 6:31pm ET (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120519/apple-app-store-apple-tv-apple-music-outage
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2024-04-03 13:25:21

Sources: Spotify plans to raise prices by $1 to $2 per month in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other markets by the end of April, and the US later in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/spotify-is-changing-how-it-charges-customers-with-new-plans-and-prices
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2024-04-03 01:15:31

Donald Trump sues two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, claiming they set the company up wrong and shouldn't get stock; the two earlier sued Trump (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/trump-sues-co-founders-of-truth-social-media-company-over-shares
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2024-04-02 15:25:31

MoffettNathanson forecasts YouTube TV will have ~12.4M US subscribers by 2026's end, passing Comcast and Charter to become the country's biggest pay TV provider (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/news/youtube-tv-surpass-charter-comcast-pay-tv/
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2024-03-29 17:01:08

Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-podcasts-service-shuts-down-in-the-us-next-week/
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2024-03-27 16:35:26

Amazon loses an EU legal bid to delay complying with DSA rules on making its online ad library publicly available, after a judge rejected Amazon's request (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/amazon-loses-eu-court-bid-to-delay-digital-rules-on-online-ads/
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2024-03-26 22:25:32

Memo: NBCU News Group Chair Cesar Conde tells staff NBC dropped Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor and apologizes for hiring the former RNC chair (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-commentator
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2024-03-25 15:20:32

The US corporate media, led by NBC, quietly rebuilds its ties to Donald Trump, as the reality sinks in that they may soon be dealing with a Trump administration (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2024/led-by-nbc-us-corporate-media-is-learning-to-live-with-trump
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2024-03-25 11:20:21

The US has splintered into 12 news bubbles based on ideology, wealth, jobs, age, and location, making gauging public opinion and finding common agreement hard (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities
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