Ex-Guardian Media Editor Jim Waterson launches London Centric, a Substack for "in-depth journalism" covering London, charging £7.95 per month or £79.50 per year (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer: Ex-Guardian Media Editor Jim Waterson launches London Centric, a Substack for “in-depth journalism” covering London, charging £7.95 per month or £79.50 per year (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

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The Verge:

YouTube launches Communities, a mix of old-school forums, subreddit, and Facebook group, and a new Community Hub to help creators use Communities— Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers.
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Todd Spangler /
Variety: YouTube Leans Into AI With Tools to Generate Video, Backgrounds and More: 'It's About Empowering Creativity, Not Replacing It' Business Insider: 2 new YouTube features could make life easier for creators, but come with risks to authenticity and fan connection

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: YouTube Will Give A Living-Room Nod To TV Tradition, Organizing Channel Content By Seasons And Episodes

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The Keyword: 9 new features we announced at Made on YouTube 2024

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The Hollywood Reporter:

YouTube plans a major connected TV app revamp, with a new UI and features like immersive previews for creator pages and an updated subscribe functionality— The platform will let creators organize their videos around episodes and seasons, while adding cinematic “immersive previews” and other functionality.

The Verge:

YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app for creators to use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write videos— Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech …

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Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch: YouTube Studio now lets creators brainstorm video ideas with the help of AI

Thomas Baekdal /
@baekdal: Now it's even quicker for clueless creators to crate AI slop... Note to creators. If you have no idea what to make a video about, turning to AI is not the solution. @Faintdreams@dice.camp: Did any actual YouTube Creators actually ask for this ? — “YouTube will use AI to generate ideas, titles, and even full videos — / YouTube's own tools can now help you write the perfect title, pick the perfect thumbnail, and make a video in seconds”. - The Verge — 😖 — #YouTube #AIVideo …

Chris Stokel-Walker /
Fast Company: How LinkedIn became influencers' hot new video platform

The Verge:
YouTube unveils Hype, a new promotional system inside of YouTube to help boost smaller creators; the most-hyped videos appear on a platform-wide leaderboard

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TechCrunch and more at Techmeme »

TechCrunch:
YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and six-second clips

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The Wrap, Wired and Google DeepMind, more at Techmeme »

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Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: YouTube to Organize Creator Content by Seasons, Episodes in Nod to Traditional TV

Eli Collins /
Google DeepMind: Empowering YouTube creators with generative AI

Variety:

Memos: Spotify VP and Head of Content Business Sahar Elhabashi plans to leave at the end of 2024; Roman Wasenmüller will become interim podcast head— Sahar Elhabashi, VP and head of the podcast business at Spotify, will leave the streaming giant at the end of 2024 after six years at the company.

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WARC forecasts Spotify's global advertising revenue to grow 13% YoY to $2.1B in 2024; podcast ad revenue growth outpaced increases in music ad monetization— Spotify, the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, is now turning to opportunities in the video advertising space whilst making …

Bleacher Report:

ESPN's NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving after seven years to become general manager of the men's basketball program at his alma mater St. Bonaventure— In a stunning turn of events, ESPN lost arguably the best basketball insider in media on Wednesday.

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Ben Strauss /
Washington Post: Prominent NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski announces retirement from ESPN

Ahmad Austin Jr /
Mediaite: JUST IN: Top NBA Insider Adrian ‘Woj’ Wojnarowski Announces Retirement from ESPN

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Adrian Wojnarowski leaving ESPN

Sam Neumann /
Awful Announcing: Sports media world reacts to Adrian Wojnarowski's shocking retirement

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Adrian Wojnarowski, NBA Insider, Says He'll Leave ESPN for College Role St. Bonaventure: Wojnarowski, '91, Retires From ESPN To Accept GM Role With Bonnies Basketball Program

Adam Schefter /
@adamschefter: ESPN senior NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski has agreed to become the general manager of the men's basketball program at St. Bonaventure, he told ESPN. The role includes Name Image and Likeness allocation, recruiting and supporting successful Bonnies coach Mark Schmidt. [image]

John Wawrow /
WKYC-TV: Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving ESPN

Blake Schuster /
USA Today: Adrian Wojnarowski's 7 biggest Woj bombs as famed NBA reporter retires from ESPN

Tim Bielik /
Plain Dealer: The NBA's most famous newsbreaker is leaving the industry for another job

Richard Lawler /
The Verge: NBA Twitter newsbreaker Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring New York Times: Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become GM for St. Bonaventure men's basketball

Michael McCarthy /
Front Office Sports: Adrian Wojnarowski Leaves ESPN for St. Bonaventure GM Job

Jacob Feldman /
Sportico: ESPN's Woj Retires From TV to Take St. Bonaventure Hoops Job

James O'Connell /
New York Daily News: NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski drops ultimate ‘Woj bomb’ and retires from ESPN Barrett Media: Adrian ‘Woj’ Wojnarowski Retires from ESPN, Named Men's Basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

TechCrunch:

Patreon adds Autopilot, which predicts free members that are most likely to upgrade and offers discounts, after finding upgrade rates grew by ~19% in testing— Patreon is rolling out new automated features for creators to convert free members to paid ones.

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Wall Street Journal:

Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows— Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model

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Sean Burch /
The Wrap: Lionsgate Partners With Runway AI to Create Tools for Storyboarding, Post-Production

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm to Mine Its Massive Film and TV Library

Sarah Fielding /
Engadget: Lionsgate signs a deal with the devil (an AI startup)

Bruce Gil /
Quartz: The studio behind ‘Twilight’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ just turned over its media library for a custom AI model

Emanuel Maiberg /
404 Media: Homemade Porn Site Promises Not to Train AI on Performers

Cole Garry /
Cole Garry on LinkedIn: Working with Runway means seeing a lot of firsts, but this one is particularly exciting - the first deal between a major studio and an AI company …

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Lionsgate Partners With Runway for AI Use in Movie Productions

Carl Franzen /
VentureBeat: Runway inks deal with Lionsgate in first team-up for AI provider and major movie studio

Kristin Brzoznowski /
WORLD SCREEN: Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm Runway

Nieman Lab:

Interviews with 20 journalists focused on why they stayed in the profession: emotional ties with audiences, chances to learn for a living, camaraderie, and more— “The day-to-day work of news, journalists reminded us, was the opportunity to learn for a living.”

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@mbalter, Karly Cox on LinkedIn, @gregperreault and @niemanlab

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@mbalter: We know why journalists leave the profession. A new study looks at why they stay | Nieman #Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Karly Cox /
Karly Cox on LinkedIn: Nobody goes into journalism for the money! But most of us, either deliberately or by falling into it, whether writing about sport, wars …

Gregory P. Perreault /
@gregperreault: New by me @NiemanLab! Here I reflect on recent scholarship on joy in journalism by @claumellado and I https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Press Gazette:

Ex-Guardian Media Editor Jim Waterson launches London Centric, a Substack for “in-depth journalism” covering London, charging £7.95 per month or £79.50 per year— London Centric will charge £79.50 per year for original reporting on the capital.

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Jim Waterson /
@jimwaterson: No oligarchs are paying my bills. And if you like the idea of proper all-London journalism - and I hope some of you do, because I've bet everything on it - then there's a 25% discount for the first 150 pre-launch subscribers. I promise it won't be boring! https://www.londoncentric.media/

Jim Waterson /
@jimwaterson: London is my home but for a few years I've felt there wasn't an outlet that covered the wider city in the way I wanted. So earlier this summer I handed in my notice to build something new, based around in-depth reporting that's also fun and interesting. https://www.londoncentric.media/ ...

Jim Waterson /
@jimwaterson: Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way. I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: https://www.londoncentric.media/

Engadget:

Substack now lets creators with its Bestsellers badges start live videos within its app, and plans to roll out the feature to all users in the coming months— It's just for top users at the start, but will the general audience tune in? — Substack is adding a live video component to its newsletter service.

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Current Affairs:

The Atlantic poses as a magazine of thoughtful ideas, but its writers get away with sloppy, unsupported arguments, and its errors are long-lasting and insidious— Regular Current Affairs readers know that I have a tendency to make grumbling remarks about a magazine called The Atlantic.

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@marsinra: For years, I've struggled to articulate why I find the Atlantic so off-putting, but this article gets it: the pernicious disguise of racism under the banner of intellectualism (most recently exhibited with Palestine) & the embarrassing clickbaity packaging of serious topics.

Nathan J Robinson /
@nathanjrobinson: have received several critical responses to my article that are basically “Yes, you are right that @TheAtlantic sucks for exactly the reasons you say, but you should have picked these other terrible articles to criticize.” Sorry everyone, there were just too many to choose from!

Claire Potter /
@tenuredradical: As someone who recently published in The Atlantic, I obviously think it is a worthwhile platform. But I can't help admire the detail this guy goes into, and the willingness to justify his animus concretely. That said, I think similar criticisms could be made of all opinion

Claire Potter /
@tenuredradical: @speechboy71 No, it doesn't: but still. Given how many people offer almost no evidence for their strident views, you have to hand it to someone who gives it his all. I think there is a bigger argument to be made about factual and opinion journalism, though.

Nathan J Robinson /
@nathanjrobinson: @ANSchmidtLebuhn @TheAtlantic yeah that's exactly it! @dave@social.masto.land: The Worst Magazine In America. I subscribed to the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago, because I found myself reading a lot of their stories for free and decided to use the money I was spending on the Washington Post to broaden my horizons. — https://www.currentaffairs.org/ ...

Sheila Liming /
@seeshespeak: Okay but you forgot the part about how they also stiff writers after and don't pay after the article has gone to press [image]

Nathan J Robinson /
@nathanjrobinson: Have written an 11,000 word article on why I think @TheAtlantic is the worst magazine in America, including its regular publishing of terrible arguments, its sloppiness with basic facts, its lack of editing, and its promotion of horrible ideas: https://www.currentaffairs.org/ ... @rafat: This is the best headline in media critique ever written. Delicious and 🎯🎯🎯https:// www.currentaffairs.org/...

Briallen Hopper /
@briallenhopper: I loved the conversation Ta-Nehisi Coates created at the Atlantic (I'm thinking more of the blog than the cover stories, though both mattered); I relied on Ed Yong during the pandemic; & I just taught a great piece by Ross Perlin. But this takedown definitely brings the receipts!

Michelle Celarier /
@mcelarier: A must read. Thanks to @NathanJRobinson for writing this.

Alexander N Schmidt-Lebuhn /
@anschmidtlebuhn: @NathanJRobinson @TheAtlantic Great read. Reminds me of certain realisations I had about Der Spiegel in my late teens, supposedly the most serious German magazine and my parents' main source of political thought when I grew up: Their editorial approach was entirely argumentation by selected anecdote.

Michael A. Cohen /
@speechboy71: @TenuredRadical Ugh, tangential nonsense. Deconstructing a handful of pieces (and doing do with a clear bias) doesn't make for a persuasive argument

Miguel Afonso Caetano /
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org: “So I want to explain exactly what it is that I think makes The Atlantic terrible and why I think we'd all be better off if it stopped publishing. My basic criticism is that while it presents itself as a magazine of ideas—which makes readers feel as if they are engaging intelligently with important issues …

TechCrunch:

Snap debuts a tool that lets select creators generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts, powered by Snap's own foundation video models— At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, Snapchat announced that it's introducing a new AI video-generation tool for creators.

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Webb Wright /
The Drum: Snap's new AI video tool will appeal to both creators & advertisers, experts say

Rhiannon Williams /
MIT Technology Review: The Download: Congress's AI bills, and Snap's new AR spectacles

Shriya Bhattacharya /
Business Insider: Snapchat breaks down how new features like content analytics data sharing and pinning Snaps will impact creator recruitment and earnings

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The Verge:
Snapchat gets a redesign that pares down five tabs to three, including a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators

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Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Snap Rolls Out New AR Glasses, Streamlined App Design And Other New Features At Sixth Annual Partner Summit

Sara Fischer /
Axios: Snap debuts operating system for AR glasses

Ryan Christoffel /
9to5Mac: Snapchat is getting redesigned, plus new AI lens displays an old-aged you

Karissa Bell /
Engadget: Snap is redesigning Snapchat and adding new AI powers

Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch: Snapchat launches video comments and tools for creators seeking brand deals

Maxwell Zeff /
TechCrunch: Snapchat tests ‘simple’ version of the app without Snap Map or Stories tab

Abner Li /