8:35 PM ET, June 2, 2023
June 2, 2023
5:10 PM
Mike Krieger / Artifact News:
Artifact will replace a clickbait title with a GPT-4 headline first only for users who request it, and a human reviewer may later make the new title the default
3:50 PM
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
WBD's JB Perrette says ~70% of HBO Max's customer base switched to Max in the first week of its launch and ~20% of the content viewed on Max was from Discovery+
3:00 PM
Vogue Business:
Memo: British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful plans to become Vogue's global creative and cultural advisor in 2024 and hire a British Vogue head of editorial content
2:20 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”
2:05 PM
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Internal memo: Insider CEO Henry Blodget thanks all employees and criticizes the Insider Union for its strike, calling contract demands “unworkable”
1:50 PM
Dan Caesar / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A bankruptcy judge rules that Diamond Sports Group must pay four MLB teams their full contract values to keep televising games; Diamond sought to cut its costs
1:30 PM
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Getty asks London's High Court to stop UK sales of Stable Diffusion, accusing Stability AI of copyright infringement for training its AI model on Getty's images
12:55 PM
Gannett:
NPR News Vice President and Executive Editor Terence Samuel plans to join Gannett and lead USA Today as EIC, starting on July 10, 2023
12:40 PM
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week
12:15 PM
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jemele Hill is leaving Spotify, which has exclusively distributed her Jemele Hill Is Unbothered podcast and her Unbothered Network of shows since 2019
11:20 AM
Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
An in-depth profile of CNN under Chris Licht and his vision for the network, as ratings keep falling and he seeks to create a forum for conversation and “truth”
11:05 AM
Reuters:
Sources: Netflix, Amazon, and Disney discussed suing and other ways to stall India's new tobacco rules that require adding health warnings during smoking scenes
9:15 AM
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines marked as clickbait by many users
8:05 AM
The Guardian:
The BBC appoints Elan Closs Stephens as its acting chair starting on June 27, 2023, to lead the board for 12 months or until a permanent chair is appointed
6:40 AM
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify's Parcast, Gimlet, and other podcast studios still have not received their 2023 budgets, hindering the approval of new shows and some expenses
June 1, 2023
10:15 PM
Mickey Djuric / Canadian Press:
Like Google, Meta tests blocking news in Canada, on Instagram and Facebook, in preparation for a potential full block of news outlets if Canada passes Bill C-18
9:56 PM
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In a nonbinding vote, Netflix shareholders decline to support the 2023 pay packages of top executives after the WGA urged them to reject “inappropriate” pay
6:35 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon introduces a streaming bundle that combines Netflix Premium and Paramount+ with Showtime for $25.99 per month via its +play subscription aggregation hub
6:20 PM
The Block:
The Block unveils a real-time News API that gives developers, investors, and data providers access to its sector-specific coverage of crypto and digital assets
5:35 PM
Andrew Sheeler / Sacramento Bee:
The California Assembly votes 46-6 to pass a bill requiring tech companies to pay a percentage of ad revenue to outlets; the bill advances to the State Senate
4:50 PM
@insiderunion:
[Thread] As layoffs loom, the Insider Union plans to strike on June 1 at 11:59pm ET if the union can't reach a contract deal with Insider's management by EOD
4:35 PM
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches a free, geotargeted weather newsletter that lets readers pick up to four places in the continental US for which to get risk alerts
2:30 PM
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Hundreds of US employees at 24 Gannett newspapers plan to walk off the job on June 5, the day of Gannett's annual shareholder meeting, to protest budget cuts
2:15 PM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com launches paid subscriptions and premium content in free newsletters, available to all WordPress.com blogs, including those on the free plan
1:40 PM
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
How The Philadelphia Inquirer uses iPhone lock screen widgets as a “second-screen experience” during live events like sports games and election results coverage
12:40 PM
Wall Street Journal:
CNN names veteran Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Leavy as its COO, to take over commercial, operational, and promotional activities across the channel
11:30 AM
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
AMC Theatres is transferring its on-demand streaming service's entire library of films to Fandango-owned Vudu; AMC will earn a portion of Vudu's revenue
10:50 AM
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The Daily Wire claims that Twitter canceled a deal to premiere What Is a Woman over two instances of “misgendering”; Elon Musk says that decision was wrong
10:30 AM
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
The Washington Post Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr plans to leave at the end of June after 19 years at The Post, to move to England and return to writing
10:25 AM
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Wattpad revamps its Creators Program, including adding a commitment to writing 500 words per week; the program has paid out nearly $3.8M in stipends since 2022
9:40 AM
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
William O'Neil, who founded Investor's Business Daily in 1984 before selling the financial news and research outlet to News Corp in 2021, dies at 90
8:55 AM
Perry Michael Simon / AllAccess.com:
Internal memo: iHeartMedia executives warn staff not to submit company info to AI platforms without permission and plan to roll out the company's own AI tools
7:45 AM
Amy-Jo Crowley / Reuters:
Sources: Liberty Global and WBD are considering selling their stakes, worth £1B+ total, in joint venture All3Media, the UK's largest indie TV production company
6:20 AM
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:
A look at the grotesque world of AI true-crime-victim TikTok, where AI deepfakes, based on images of children who were abused, describe their own ghastly demise
5:15 AM
Reuters:
ITV commissions an external review of presenter Phillip Schofield's resignation after he admitted to lying in 2020 about his relationship with a young worker
May 31, 2023
10:00 PM
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney has reached its target of 7,000 layoffs, or 3.2% of its global headcount of ~220,000 staff; source: the company plans more cuts internationally over time
7:30 PM
Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Project Veritas sues James O'Keefe, claiming he broke parts of his employment contract by leaving the undercover-camera operation to set up a rival organization
5:45 PM
Liz Bowie / The Baltimore Banner:
Baltimore Banner CEO Imtiaz Patel plans to step down on July 7 to join Gannett's senior leadership; Brian McGrory will lead the nonprofit during its CEO search
5:35 PM
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Multiple New York Times journalists say they remain concerned and disappointed the outlet published a soft-focus profile of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes
5:15 PM
Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
Q&A with the co-founders of Good Tape, a new biannual print magazine that aims to feature a mix of journalism and cultural criticism about audio storytelling
4:30 PM
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
WAN-IFRA survey of 101 editors, journalists, and other newsroom staff: ~49% say their newsroom is actively working with generative AI, mostly for text creation
4:15 PM
Zach Seward / ZMS:
Quartz co-founder Zach Seward, who has served at the publication as CEO, reporter, editor, and editor-in-chief, says he is leaving the company on June 9
3:50 PM
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Meta threatens to remove news content from its platforms in California if the state government passes a proposed law forcing tech companies to pay publishers
3:25 PM
Financial Times:
OPEC bars Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal from its Vienna meeting this weekend; sources: Saudi Arabia's energy minister instigated the decision
3:05 PM
Mary Yang / NPR:
A look at Sino Monthly, a Chinese-language magazine with six full-time staff that costs $1.25/issue and has become a staple for New Jersey's Chinese community
2:25 PM
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Torrent site RARBG, founded in 2008, shuts down and stops all its content releases, citing COVID-related health problems, Russia's war in Ukraine, and inflation
1:30 PM
Lucy Skoulding / The Independent:
ITV orders review into Phillip Schofield's departure from This Morning
1:10 PM
Ben Smith / @semaforben:
In an internal note, Wired EIC Gideon Lichfield says he plans to leave the magazine in mid-September 2023, “unless a new editor is ready to start sooner”
12:40 PM
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Google TV adds the Live tab to some devices in Germany, including Joyn and Zattoo streaming channels, the first time the feature has been offered outside the US
11:10 AM
Wall Street Journal:
Studios invoked force-majeure rights in recent weeks to hold deals with authors whose books are being adapted into movies and TV shows until the WGA strike ends
8:40 AM
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Sources: former NFL punter Pat McAfee's ESPN contract is for five years and worth ~$85M; for its $17M, ESPN gets 230 shows per year to sell advertising against
7:10 AM
Mia Sato / The Verge:
After a fake image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images, set to appear on “recent and future matching images”
6:25 AM
Deepa Parent / The Guardian:
Ahead of a trial of two female journalists who covered Mahsa Amini's death, Iran's reporters describe beatings, threats, and imprisonment for covering protests
May 30, 2023
10:20 PM
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Cox Media, Fox Corp, and CBS agree to pay a combined $48M to settle antitrust claims of price fixing for spot advertising on broadcast TV; Cox's portion is $37M
7:40 PM
Jeff Sanders / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Sinclair's Diamond Sports, in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, lets its broadcast rights to the San Diego Padres expire; temporary free streams on the MLB app are likely
7:15 PM
Digiday:
Source: Twitter has been selling ad inventory through the mobile advertising marketplace InMobi in one test market since May 13, and plans to gradually expand
2:50 PM
For America / Report for America:
Report for America partners with Investigative Editing Corps to oversee up to 10 projects, each taking three to six months, over two years in its host newsrooms
2:05 PM
Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Defector trying to create a journalists' utopia that isn't ethically compromised and the accompanying trade-offs, like less revenue and fewer sources
12:15 PM
Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: India denied visa renewals to the last two Chinese journalists in the country; of 2022's four Indian journalists in China, at least two can't return
11:10 AM
Emily Bell / @emilybell:
[Thread] An AI-generated ad from a blue-check Twitter user linking to The Guardian and falsely saying TV presenter Ian Wright died highlights Twitter's issues
9:45 AM
Duvar English:
Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council launches investigations against seven opposition TV channels for their allegedly derogatory election coverage
8:00 AM
Reuters:
The trial of Elaheh Mohammadi, who Iran accused of “colluding with hostile powers” for reporting on Mahsa Amini, whose death sparked unrest, began on May 29
5:55 AM
Ben Mack / Esquire:
A look at the US government-funded Antarctic Sun, Antarctica's biggest and longest-running newspaper, which covers scientific research on the continent
May 29, 2023
10:05 PM
Robby Soave / Reason:
If Twitter becomes a home for right-leaning content, Republicans will have to rethink their ire toward Section 230, which they argue allows too much moderation
4:05 PM
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to crack down on dangerous and misleading videos
9:35 AM
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
A coalition of UK media industry bodies issues a statement challenging the Conservative party's £137/journalist fee to attend its October 2023 party conference
8:30 AM
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Global says Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, and Lewis Goodal's daily podcast The News Agents had 30M downloads in May 2023; their US weekly podcast debuts on June 20
May 28, 2023