As part of a News Media Alliance lobbying effort, 100+ news executives are visiting Washington, DC, on September 11 to warn lawmakers about AI's impact on media (Status)

Mediagazer: As part of a News Media Alliance lobbying effort, 100+ news executives are visiting Washington, DC, on September 11 to warn lawmakers about AI's impact on media (Status)

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TechCrunch:

TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US— TikTok announced on Monday that its redesigned “Subscription” monetization offering is rolling out to eligible creators in select regions …
Discussion: TikTok, @wildtiktokss, @liahaberman, @zachbussey, @tiktokcomms, ZDNET, MediaPost and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

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TikTok: Subscription Expansion: Enabling More Creators to Enhance Relationships With Their Communities @wildtiktokss: subscriptions are now available on my page! they're only $1 subscribers will get daily exclusive posts and other memes/shitposts. I will also do giveaways and frequent shoutouts to the main feed for subscribers and talk about life i will also follow back all subs and feel free [image]

Lia Haberman /
@liahaberman: TikTok announced its updated “Subscription” feature is rolling out to more eligible creators in select markets Creators will be able offer followers exclusive access to premium perks, unique experiences, and a members-only community for a monthly fee https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ... [image]

Zach Bussey /
@zachbussey: TikTok is expanding Subscriptions with new features. - Open to All eligible Creators, not just LIVE. - Three Tiers New Perks: - Private Comm Channels - Exclusive Content - Unique Stickers + Evolving Badges - Custom Perks (Discord Role, Shoutouts) #StreamerNews #TOSgg [image] @tiktokcomms: Our newly expanded Subscription feature launches today in select regions, with more to come. The redesigned feature will enable more creators to offer their followers exclusive perks, unique experiences, and access to a members-only community. Read more: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ... [image]

Cesar Cadenas /
ZDNET: TikTok rolls out expanded Subscription packages letting fans unlock exclusive content

Jessica Bursztynsky /
Fast Company: TikTok expands its subscription feature for creators

Semafor:

A look at Tim Miller's “Never Trump” outlet The Bulwark's surging popularity on YouTube, with subscribers up from 50,000 in September 2023 to 631,000 now— The Scoop — Tim Miller doesn't enjoy making the MrBeast face, the wide-eyed, open-mouthed smile of a million YouTube thumbnail images.

Discussion:

John Ettorre /
@workinwithwords: “The Bulwark is currently the 4th-most popular news publication on Substack, behind Bari Weiss' Free Press, Heather Cox Richardson's long running history newsletter, & Nate Silver's polling/media analysis project, the Silver Bulletin.” Wow. https://www.semafor.com/...

Simon Owens /
@simondowens@threads.net: The Bulwark, the never-Trump outlet that's become one of the biggest political publications on Substack, has grown its YouTube following by 600,000 in just the last year. Most of the videos consist of short clips from its longform podcasts. — https://www.semafor.com/...

Eric Michael Garcia /
@ericmgarcia14@threads.net: The Bulwark and @timodc honestly put together some of the smartest commentary out there. I find myself checking it regularly.

Bill Kristol /
@billkristol: “It's mission-driven. So we're always going to be looking for how to reach more people...Because my bigger political ambition is: How do you build a new center in the country? And so I want to build as big a community as possible.” https://www.semafor.com/... @risj_oxford: Centre-right US news outlet the @BulwarkOnline has grown rapidly this year, evolving from “an anti-Trump refuge into a promising media business,” writes @maxwelltani who looks at the delicate line it's treading between political and business success. https://www.semafor.com/...

Peter Hamby /
@peterhamby: The Bulwark — a real media company! Great @maxwelltani piece, starring a lot of @Timodc face https://www.semafor.com/...

Aaron M. Renn /
@aaron_renn: Love them or hate them, there's no denying that there's a big market for Never Trump takes, and both the Bulwark and Dispatch have done extremely well. https://www.semafor.com/...

Tim Miller /
@timodc: “Since Biden dropped out, The Bulwark has netted 88 million views on YouTube (the prior 5 years were 64.2 mil)...It has been averaging 296k views per video...making it one of the most-viewed-per-video producers in all of English-language news media.” https://www.semafor.com/...

Justin Kanew /
@kanew: Good stuff here. Grateful for @Timodc and the Bulwark crew's voices as (former) Republicans who saw Trumpism for what it was early on. https://www.semafor.com/...

Variety:

Interview with Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood on plans to make The Daily Beast “an intelligent tabloid” with 30+ new contributors like Tina Brown, Kara Swisher— If the media industry is burning, Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood aren't afraid to play close to the flames.

Discussion:
The Daily Beast, @variety, LateNighter and @bristei

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@variety: Samantha Bee will co-host a new podcast on The Daily Beast, and the publication is tapping more than 30 prominent journalists, comedians and thought leaders to help revitalize the site. Among the list are Kara Swisher, Larry Wilmore and Phoebe Robinson. https://variety.com/...

Nick Riccardo /
LateNighter: Samantha Bee is Launching a New Podcast for The Daily Beast

New York Times:

A look at Racquet, a tennis magazine whose co-founders, David Shaftel and Caitlin Thompson, are in a legal dispute over their differing visions for the magazine— The indie magazine Racquet aims to become a major player in the business of tennis — after a messy dispute between its two founders.

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@jtes

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Vanity Fair:

The relationship between Olivia Nuzzi and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. casts renewed scrutiny on the ethical line between all journalists and subjects— An allegedly inappropriate relationship between the New York reporter and 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has rocked the media world

Discussion:
The Daily Beast, Semafor, New York Post, Marin Independent Journal, Entertainment Weekly, The Wrap, Business Insider, Fox News, Adweek, Page Six, @lxeagle17, SheKnows, @will_bunch, Jeremy Fassler, @j_fassler, @bethfertig, @drmarinaarcher, HuffPost, @clayranck@threads.net, @dankennedy_nu@threads.net, New York Times and Know Your Meme

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Lily Mae Lazarus /
The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.'s Friends Whine Olivia Nuzzi ‘Set Him Up’ Using Nude Pics

Ben Smith /
Semafor: Semafor Media — Welcome to Semafor Media, where we've been reiterating our ethics policies this week.

Josh Kosman /
New York Post: Olivia Nuzzi once dated ex-MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann — star reporter's love life in focus amid RFK Jr. sexting scandal

Martha Ross /
Marin Independent Journal: ‘Chased by porn’: Robert F Kennedy Jr casts himself as victim of obsessed, sexting reporter

Joey Nolfi /
Entertainment Weekly: The View star Ana Navarro calls RFK Jr. ‘a dog and a ho’ amid journalist scandal: ‘His wife knows it’

Jacob Bryant /
The Wrap: Alyssa Farah Griffin Defends NY Mag Writer Who ‘Blurred Ethical Lines’: ‘Olivia Nuzzi Scandal? No, RFK Scandal!’

Madeline Berg /
Business Insider: The RFK Jr.-Nuzzi relationship had reportedly become an open secret in some circles before the news broke Fox News: ‘The View’ calls out ‘conflict of interest’ in NY Mag reporter's ‘personal relationship’ with RFK Jr.

Vanessa Serna /
Page Six: Married RFK Jr. bragged about ‘intimate’ photos he had of reporter Olivia Nuzzi amid sexting scandal: report

Lakshya Jain /
@lxeagle17: It is extremely funny that 90% of the male journalists on Twitter have been simping for Olivia Nuzzi, while all of the female journalists are beyond livid for her committing an incredibly serious and obvious breach of ethics.

Delilah Gray /
SheKnows: RFK Jr. Once Had 43 ‘Mistresses’ in His Cellphone, Insiders Allege Amid Cheating Scandal

Will Bunch /
@will_bunch: 1. Re: the Olivia Nuzzi thing. I was surprised that she's only 31 so I read her bio. Dropped out of Fordham to cover the 2016 election for Daily Beast. My generation, no one did this — you worked at a smaller paper or 2 and covered zoning meetings and learned from your dumb...

Will Bunch /
@will_bunch: 2...mistakes by the time you were ready to work in a major-league newsroom. Maybe there was some wisdom in that system, no?

Jeremy Fassler /
@j_fassler: Olivia Nuzzi's behavior with RFK Jr. is an indictment on journalism itself, but the fact that she's been allowed to rise to the top despite being so awful at her job, and that she's been defended so often, should also cause self-reflection. My latest: https://jeremyfassler.medium.com/ ...

Beth Fertig /
@bethfertig: “As the American media faces a whole new level of distrust and attacks, the ethical line between journalist and subject could not be more important to keep clear.” Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/...

Dr. Marina Archer /
@drmarinaarcher: The entire access journalism issue matters. DC's press/politics “commingling” matters. Giuliani had Ken Vogel. Michael Cohen had Haberman. There are others. This isn't @ sex - it's @ politicians and media figures “using” each other for personal benefit. https://www.vanityfair.com/... @clayranck@threads.net: I really feel like the journalists telling us how great Nuzzi is are actually just telling on themselves.

Dan Kennedy /
@dankennedy_nu@threads.net: This July 4 Olivia Nuzzi piece on a fading Biden was influential in how some of us thought about his future in politics. Obviously it wasn't the sole reason that he ended his campaign. But @nymag's claim that Nuzzi's relationship with RFK Jr. didn't affect her journalism is as wrong as can be. …

Katie Robertson /
New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine Writer, Put on Leave Over R.F.K. Jr. Relationship

Reuters:

Source: Meta plans to launch the voices of Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, John Cena, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for its Meta AI chatbot at Connect this week— Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) is planning to announce this week that it has secured deals with actors including Judi Dench …

Discussion:
The Wrap and New York Post, more at Techmeme »

Associated Press:

Al Jazeera says Israeli forces raided its Ramallah bureau in the West Bank early September 22 with a military order to immediately close the office for 45 days— Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday …

Discussion:
CNN, Al Jazeera, Sverre Haanæs on LinkedIn, Deadline, Sandra Rasheed on LinkedIn, BBC, @mkpetkova@mastodon.world, @fkamiah17@syzito.xyz, Adweek, Rolling Stone, Broadband TV News, The Guardian, @afp, Committee to Protect …, @biesanak, @sahouraxo, @gazanotice, @mariambarghouti, Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times, @Amputado@mastodon.cc, ABC, The Times of Israel, NDTV, @attackerman.bsky.social and National Union of Journalists …

Discussion:

Sverre Haanæs /
Sverre Haanæs on LinkedIn: Jonathan Cook: Having destroyed Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, and killed much of its staff there, — having outlawed Al Jazeera from broadcasting in Israel, …

Max Goldbart /
Deadline: Israel Shuts Down Al Jazeera Bureau In West Bank

Sandra Rasheed /
Sandra Rasheed on LinkedIn: Freedom of the press is a fundamental right that serves as the backbone of any democratic society. It ensures that information flows freely …

Jacqueline Howard /
BBC: Israel orders 45-day closure of Al Jazeera West Bank office

Mariya /
@mkpetkova@mastodon.world: After assassinating several colleagues in #Gaza (and in 2022 Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin), Israel closed AJ in the West Bank: — “Al Jazeera's Jivara Budeiri said Israeli forces fired tear gas in the vicinity of the Al Jazeera bureau and the Manara Roundabout in the heart of the occupied West Bank city... Israeli soldiers confiscated their cameras. … @fkamiah17@syzito.xyz: The “only democracy in the Middle East” shuts down the news agencies who say things they don't like. — #IsraelIsATerroristState #Aljazeera — https://www.aljazeera.com/...

Julian Clover /
Broadband TV News: Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera base in Gaza @afp: #UPDATE Al Jazeera says Israeli forces have raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. “There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,” an Israeli soldier told an Al Jazeera journalist, the Qatari network reported, citing a conversation aired live Committee to Protect Journalists: Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera's West Bank office, issue 45 day ban on its journalism

Biesan Abu-Kwaik /
@biesanak: Breaking: The Israeli army just stormed the Al Jazeera office in the Ramallah in the West Bank and they are handing a military order to close the office for 45 days without providing an explanation. [video]

Sarah /
@sahouraxo: HAPPENING NOW: Israeli soldiers are raiding Al Jazeera's office in Ramallah and forcing it to stop broadcasting in the West Bank for 45 days. Israel is planning something terrifying across the West Bank, and doesn't want the world to see. [video] @gazanotice: Al Jazeera journalists are now on the street, all their TV gear has been confiscated, they are not allowed to go get their cars from the parking. It is 3.52am in Ramallah. The area is fully surrounded by Israeli forces. The number of soldiers involved in this operation is quite [video]

Mariam Barghouti /
@mariambarghouti: BREAKING: The Israeli military is raiding downtown Ramallah, broke into Al-Jazeera offices and ordered its closure for 45 days by military order. This is around 3:20 a.m. local. [video]

Associated Press:
Hezbollah Hits Back With More Than 100 Rockets Across A Wider And Deeper Area Of Israel

Muhammad Al Gebaly /
Reuters: Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank with closure order @Amputado@mastodon.cc: Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by #Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the #Gaza Strip. … The Times of Israel: Report: Israeli forces storm Al Jazeera's Ramallah bureau with military order to close it for 45 days

Pushkar Tiwari /
NDTV: “Take All Cameras And Leave”: Israel Raids Al Jazeera's West Bank Office

Spencer Ackerman /
@attackerman.bsky.social: Al Jazeera reports that the IDF is raiding its West Bank bureau. [image]

New York Magazine:

An interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new nonfiction book The Message, how US journalistic institutions failed in covering the Israel-Hamas war, and more— A decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.

Discussion:
@coopercooperco, @bwdbwdbwd, @hofrench, @strawburriez, @dwallacewells, @jackmirkinson, @dbattistella@mstdn.ca, @wireracing, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @jazzedloon, @longreads@mastodon.world, @achingkneejoint, @zschrieber, @seywarddarby, @ryuspaeth, @damonlinker, @brianstelter, @yacobg42, @jackmirkinson and Longreads

Discussion:
@coopercooperco: Coates spending the last decade in comics, movies, and fiction, and coming back to no fiction ready to burn all his Obama-era won bridges by unequivocally calling Palestine an occupation and ongoing genocide really underscores the general cowardice of that media class.

Bradford William Davis /
@bwdbwdbwd: A woman shouted down Ta-Nehisi Coates over a how passage in his The Case for Reparations framed Israel, and it changed his life. Bullying works! [image]

Howard French /
@hofrench: On American journalism during the Israel-Gaza conflict, from a long piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates. https://nymag.com/... [image]

Roxanna Asgarian /
@strawburriez: Something that struck me about the Ta-Nehisi profile is that even he has a hard time getting his work and ideas past the editors. [image]

David Wallace-Wells /
@dwallacewells: “'The fact of the matter is,' he said, 'that kid up at Columbia, whatever dumb shit they're saying, whatever slogan I would not say that they would use, they are more morally correct than some motherfuckers that have won Pulitzer Prizes...'” https://nymag.com/...

Jack Mirkinson /
@jackmirkinson: apparently vox guy was actually subtweeting ta-nehisi coates which, have a good time with that @dbattistella@mstdn.ca: “The Israeli occupation is a moral crime, one that has been all but covered up by the West. I don't think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates https://nymag.com/... [images] @wireracing: Looks like Ta-Nehisi Coates's time as a liberal darling is about to come to an end [image]

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Coates: “What I suspect is that American media in general thinks of itself as separate from the ends and goals of American power. And I don't think that's true.” — https://archive.ph/...

Jazmine Hughes /
@jazzedloon: “What I suspect,” he told me, “is that American media in general thinks of itself as separate from the ends and goals of American power. And I don't think that's true.” on our moral responsibility: https://nymag.com/... @longreads@mastodon.world: “'I have a deep-seated fear,' he told me, 'that the Black struggle will ultimately, at its root, really just be about narrow Black interest. And I don't think that is in the tradition of what our most celebrated thinkers have told the world.'” — A #NewYorkMagazine profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates by Ryu Spaeth: https://nymag.com/... … @achingkneejoint: the most telling paragraph from the Ta-Nehisi Coates profile — i get the sense he's still overly forgiving towards the establishment media that embraced him, but it's incredibly rare for a figure like him to realise his complicity and deliberately turn against it. Props to him [image] @zschrieber: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a once in a generation writer who transformed the way we view race in America. And it would be a shame if he tried to superimpose those uniquely American issues on to a completely unrelated conflict in the Middle East

Seyward Darby /
@seywarddarby: This paragraph (entirely a quote) in @RyuSpaeth's profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, my god. https://nymag.com/... [image]

Ryu Spaeth /
@ryuspaeth: For the latest issue of @NYMag I profiled Ta-Nehisi Coates, who talked to me about Israel and Palestine, the failures of the media, and what Gaza means for the civil rights movement https://nymag.com/...

Damon Linker /
@damonlinker: I see Ta-Nehisi Coates has come down from Mt. Sinai to pronounce on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, declaring one side wicked & the other righteous & dismissing all efforts to acknowledge moral ambiguity. Such relief to be unburdened of complexity and difficulty.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What I suspect is that American media in general thinks of itself as separate from the ends and goals of American power. And I don't think that's true.” https://nymag.com/...

Jacob Geller /
@yacobg42: My god [image]

Jack Mirkinson /
@jackmirkinson: it's kind of crazy that a profile of ta-nehisi coates that spends so much time talking about the erasure of palestinians from the us media...contains almost no palestinian voices in it

Seyward Darby /
Longreads: The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Press Gazette:

DMG Media CEO Rich Caccappolo discusses how UK tech regulation and Google lawsuits may benefit news publishers, Mail Online's partial paywall success, and more— Revenue and profit up for DMG Media this year after Mail Online partial paywall move. — DMG Media chief executive Rich Caccappolo …

New York Times:

How Russia uses criticism of the US and the West to spread propaganda through RT and related networks in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa— Social media companies may try to ban RT, the Russian state media broadcaster. But the network has proved in the past to be a wily adversary …

Discussion:
Jay Paxton on LinkedIn and Jay Janzen on LinkedIn

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Jay Paxton /
Jay Paxton on LinkedIn: I share this Saturday morning read not only as a good synopsis of how state-run (dis)information is organized but for the report links within the article. …

Android Police:

Reddit users say YouTube has raised the prices of individual and family YouTube Premium plans outside the US, with hikes of 30% to 50% based on the region— - YouTube is increasing subscription prices outside the US, affecting both individual and family plans.

Discussion:
The Verge, The Desk, 9to5Google, @MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net and Digital Music News

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Matthew Keys /
The Desk: YouTube increases price for YouTube Premium in Europe

Damien Wilde /
9to5Google: YouTube Premium is getting major price increases in Europe

MylesRyden /