6:55 PM ET, May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024
6:10 PM
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
A look at Musi, a free music streaming app popular among high schoolers that uses YouTube to source music, opening Musi up to legal action from record labels
5:30 PM
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 48% of US adults prefer websites or social media for local news; 15% paid for local news in the last year; 63% believe local outlets do well financially
5:15 PM
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A historical look at Pulitzer winners shows the decline of local and regional newspapers and the growth in online news outlets, especially at the local level
5:00 PM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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
4:33 PM
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Reddit Q1: revenue up 48% YoY to $243M, vs. $212.8M est., net loss of $575.1M, driven by IPO expenses, and DAUq total up 37% to 82.7M; RDDT up 15%+ after hours
4:10 PM
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A look at Chicago's Invisible Institute, a nonprofit newsroom with about a dozen journalists incorporated in 2015 that won two 2024 Pulitzers
12:20 PM
New York Times:
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”
12:05 PM
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says it's developing a Media Manager tool, slated for release by 2025, to let content owners identify their works to OpenAI and control how they are used
11:10 AM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon announces three new interactive ad formats for Prime Video: shoppable carousel ads, interactive pause ads, and interactive brand trivia ads
10:50 AM
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Marvel is going to reduce output and focus on quality by releasing “about two TV series a year” and a “maximum of three” films per year
10:35 AM
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI releases a tool to detect DALL-E 3-created images, claiming 98% accuracy for unaltered images, and joins Microsoft and Adobe's content credentials group
10:20 AM
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Disney's streaming unit reports a loss of $18M in Q2, down from a $659M loss YoY, and says it is on track to achieve streaming profitability in Q4 2024
10:11 AM
Max Tani / Semafor:
Memo: Business Insider Global Editor-in-Chief Nich Carlson is stepping down and will become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects
9:50 AM
Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Bob Iger says Disney+ will add a new ESPN tile by the end of 2024, with “select live games and studio programming” for US subscribers
9:40 AM
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Tubi partners with Issa Rae's ColorCreative initiative to launch Stubios, an incubation program for up-and-coming filmmakers looking to break into the business
9:20 AM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Dotdash Meredith inks a deal with OpenAI to license its content to train AI models and work together on products, including Dotdash's ad-targeting tool D/Cipher
8:30 AM
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Disney reports Disney+ 153.6M subscribers, vs. 155.66M est., and raises its guidance for FY 2024 earnings growth from 20% to 25%, vs. 25.5% est.; DIS drops 8%+
7:40 AM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Q2 subscribers to Disney+ Core, which excludes Disney+ Hotstar in India and other Southeast Asian countries, up 6% QoQ to 117.6M, above forecasts
7:15 AM
CNBC:
Disney reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $22.08B, vs. $22.11B est., with Disney+ and Hulu hitting a combined quarterly profit for the first time
May 6, 2024
9:20 PM
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app
5:20 PM
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Lookout Santa Cruz, a digital-only local news outlet, won the breaking news reporting Pulitzer for its 2023 California floods coverage; Reuters won two prizes
4:20 PM
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NYT and WaPo won three Pulitzers each; the prize for public service went to ProPublica for its coverage of Justice Clarence Thomas' financial entanglements
3:20 PM
Ren LaForme / Poynter:
2024 Pulitzer Prize winners: NYT for Investigative Reporting, WaPo and Reuters for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting for Oct. 7 coverage
1:50 PM
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
A viral Politico story on Democratic donors funding the pro-Palestine protests against Joe Biden is full of inaccuracies; Politico issued some corrections
12:30 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Condé Nast's tentative agreement to contract terms came after the union leaders had explicitly threatened to stage a picket line at the 2024 Met Gala
12:00 PM
Sabela Ojea / Wall Street Journal:
Simon & Schuster acquires Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, its first deal for a non-English book publisher; VBK will maintain its editorial independence
11:05 AM
Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times:
Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining
10:40 AM
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of ESPN's First Take host Stephen A. Smith, whose longevity and uncanny ability to deliver opinions made him the most famous talking head in sports
8:44 AM
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
Just in time for the Met Gala, and at long last, here's the memo announcing a tentative contract between Condé Nast and the union representing hundreds of staffers [image]
8:30 AM
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
An interview with Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo on adding AI tools, supporting developers on Quora's chatbot platform Poe, Quora's relationship with OpenAI, and more
May 5, 2024
11:40 PM
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal control of his business
11:00 PM
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are
8:48 PM
Wall Street Journal:
Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named
4:40 PM
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Twitch streamers are growing their audiences as they stream student protests, and some viewers and protesters see them as more trustworthy than traditional news
10:40 AM
Reuters:
Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order
10:10 AM
SWI swissinfo.ch:
Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF plan to drastically reduce their communications on X, saying they aren't reaching their target audience on the platform
May 4, 2024
5:20 PM
Yun Li / CNBC:
Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold its entire Paramount stake and “lost quite a bit of money”; Berkshire owned 63.3M shares of Paramount as of the end of 2023
May 3, 2024
11:50 PM
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
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
9:15 PM
Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian:
UNESCO: at least 749 environmental reporters have faced violence and intimidation since 2009, 44 were murdered but that resulted in just five convictions
8:20 PM
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024
6:50 PM
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
The Post Millennial and Human Events websites were hacked and defaced late May 2, initially with links added to datasets of subscribers, writers, and editors
5:30 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates
4:55 PM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web
4:15 PM
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen
3:55 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition
2:40 PM
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming
1:55 PM
Financial Times:
An interview with UK culture secretary Lucy Frazer on blocking RedBird IMI's Telegraph takeover bid, plans to cap foreign state ownership at 5%, and more
10:55 AM
Steven Levy / Wired:
Jeff Lawson's Global Tetrahedron plans membership tiers for The Onion and doesn't plan to put up a hard paywall, as it moves away from G/O's ad-focused approach
9:25 AM
Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place
8:40 AM
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fubo reports 1.51M FuboTV subscribers at the end of Q1, down from 1.61M in Q4, revenue up 24% YoY to $394M, and a $56.1M loss, down from $83.6M a year ago
May 2, 2024
10:05 PM
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
A look at 2023 media CEO pay amid industry contraction: Charter CEO Chris Winfrey, $89M; Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, $84M; WBD CEO David Zaslav, $49.7M; and more
8:35 PM
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: MLB is in advanced talks to make Roku the new home for Sunday morning baseball this season, in what would be Roku's first major live rights deal