A study finds Australia has the second-highest media concentration in the world after Brazil; in the newspaper sector, four companies control 84% of the market (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)

Mediagazer: A study finds Australia has the second-highest media concentration in the world after Brazil; in the newspaper sector, four companies control 84% of the market (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)

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The Verge:

Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US— Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
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TechCrunch:

Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more— Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries …

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The Drum: Google launches ads in AI Overviews as it pushes onward in the generative AI race

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@mizshellytee.bsky.social: Today's a good day to switch your default search engine to something else, if you haven't already. [embedded post] @xodaniwrites.bsky.social: Even with human editors, the headline can make or break a piece. [embedded post] @feralhattie.bsky.social: Just in time to lend a smidge, a dollop, a hint of added election chaos! Thanks awfully, goog [embedded post]

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Bloomberg:

Sources: the NFL is in talks with Skydance Media and its major investor RedBird Capital Partners that could result in a sale of NFL Media and NFL Network— - Discussions revolve around the league's media assets — Earlier conversations with ESPN are said to have stalled

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Peter Kafka /
Business Insider: The most valuable programming on TV is for sale. Why hasn't anyone bought it?

David Satin /
The Streamable: First Paramount, Now NFL Media? Skydance in Talks With NFL to Purchase NFL Network

Dan Rayburn /
Dan Rayburn on LinkedIn: Bloomberg reports that Skydance is in talks with the NFL to purchase the NFL Network, which includes the NFL Network cable channel and NFL Films. …

The Guardian:

A study finds Australia has the second-highest media concentration in the world after Brazil; in the newspaper sector, four companies control 84% of the market— Google and Meta should fund traditional public interest journalism, a new international study reports

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Caroline James-Garrod on LinkedIn, @simon_rosenberg, @ruthmahalia, @mediamorphis and Global Media …

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Caroline James-Garrod /
Caroline James-Garrod on LinkedIn: Dire, albeit unsurprising. — Important new research by Terry Flew and peers, highlighting the alarming scale of news deserts in Australia's local news coverage. …

Simon Rosenberg /
@simon_rosenberg: “Australia's media concentration ranked second-worst in world” And JFC does it show in the embarrassingly poor quality that passes for most journalism in this country. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Ruth McHugh-Dillon /
@ruthmahalia: Four companies - News Corp, Nine Entertainment, Seven West Media and Australian Community Media -own 84% of print media in Australia. Only Brazil had a higher media concentration. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Dwayne Winseck /
@mediamorphis: Excellent write-up by @meadea in @GuardianAus on @FlewTerry, Cam McTernan, Rob Nicholls & Scott Fitzgerald's recently released study of media concentration in Australia as part of the @GMICProject. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... cc @SSHRC_CRSH @Carleton_U

CNN:

Melania Trump's book publisher asked CNN to sign an NDA and pay $250K to interview her, but then called the request a “miscommunication”— Nearly two months ago, CNN reached out to Melania Trump's book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady ahead of her upcoming memoir.

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Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: CNN claims Melania Trump's book publisher demanded $250K for interview

Sarah Rumpf /
Mediaite: CNN Reporter Absolutely Shreds Melania Trump Over ‘Completely Unprecedented and Very, Very Unusual’ $250K Request to Do an Interview

Devon Heinen /
@heinendevon@threads.net: And just for clarity for non-journalists here on Threads: We journalists, nor our outlets we work for, do NOT pay for interviews or for people to be our sources in our stories. Paying for sources is unethical and can cause a subjectivity issue.

Bess Levin /
Vanity Fair: Melania Trump's Publisher Demanded $250,000 From CNN for an Interview About Her Book: Report

Andi Ortiz /
The Wrap: ‘The View’: Sunny Hostin Thinks Melania Trump ‘Hates’ Donald and ‘Wants to Take Him Out’ With New Abortion Rights Video

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: CNN says Melania Trump publisher asked for $250K fee in response to interview request

Jessica Kwong /
Metro.co.uk: Melania Trump book publisher ‘tried to charge CNN $250,000 for an interview’

Joey Nolfi /
Entertainment Weekly: The View cohosts polarized over report that Melania Trump is pro-abortion: ‘I think she hates’ Donald Trump

Brandon Weathersby /
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Jason Weisberger /
Boing Boing: Melania's representatives backpedal after attempt to fleece CNN

Leslie Gray Streeter /
@lesliestreeter: You can't miscommunicate a check that big.

Clay Travis /
@claytravis: Honestly they should have asked for $10 million. Why should Melania speak to CNN when Kamala and Walz ignore you guys too? (Except for a ten minute slobber fest with Dana Bash).

Dan Friedman /
@dfriedman33: $500K and she'll exclusively change her mind to pro-life. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

The Times:

Reuters withdraws two stories on the World Anti-Doping Agency after it was found that WADA's media head received a Reuters press pass for the Masters golf event— World Anti-Doping Agency media chief James Fitzgerald accredited for golf event via Reuters, who have admitted to ‘a violation of our journalistic standards’

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KSTP-TV: Reuters withdraws two articles on anti-doping agency after arranging Masters pass for source

Chris Roush /
Talking Biz News: Reuters pulls stories on anti-doping agency

Tariq Panja /
@tariqpanja: The WADA official denies to @martynziegler the two things are connected and that he was attending the golf in a private capacity. [image]

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@tariqpanja: @martynziegler This is the note attached to the stories that are now no longer available. [image]

Tariq Panja /
@tariqpanja: Global news agency Reuters has pulled two stories related to the World Anti Doping Agency after WADA's chief comms officer was found to have been supplied with a Reuters press pass for the coveted Augusta Masters golf. Story here by @martynziegler https://www.thetimes.com/...

Columbia Journalism Review:

How Meta's Canada news ban affected the town of Squamish and how outlets are working around the ban, including through paid posts on Meta— Meta's Canadian news ban, as told through my small town — In March of 2021, a set of Facebook pages showed up in the feeds of my neighbors in Squamish …

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Lauren Watson on LinkedIn, Phaedra de Saint-Rome on LinkedIn and @cjr

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Lauren Watson /
Lauren Watson on LinkedIn: This is a story very close to my heart. — When I left Canada last year for journalism school, Meta and Google were threatening to ban news across …

Phaedra de Saint-Rome /
Phaedra de Saint-Rome on LinkedIn: “Meta's Canadian news ban, as told through my small town.” — Stellar reporting by Lauren Watson at Columbia Journalism Review …

Axios:

A look at James McDonald's Access Global, which has bought seven local news sites and launched eight in Philadelphia and on the Jersey Shore over the last year— McDonald thinks there's a viable business model for hyper-local sites if they're tied to coverage from a broader region or city.

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Simon Owens on LinkedIn

Variety:

Samsung TV Plus adds about 4,000 hours of ad-supported, free-to-stream Korean shows and movies, following deals with CJ ENM and others— Leading Korean content owners including CJ ENM and NEW ID have struck supply deals with Samsung TV Plus, a U.S. free ad-supported TV (FAST) channel.

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IndieWire: Samsung TV Plus Adds 4,000 Hours of Korean Films and Shows to Stream for Free: K-Content Is ‘No Longer Niche’

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Engadget: Samsung's FAST TV Plus service is going all in on K-dramas

Yong Su Kim /
Yong Su Kim on LinkedIn: Samsung TV Plus is now the best place to find all your favorite Korean movies and TV shows for free if you have a Samsung TV. …

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Samsung TV Plus Ups South Korean Streaming Content Portfolio in U.S.

Mario Giampaolo /
Mario Giampaolo on LinkedIn: K-Content lives on Samsung TV Plus! — Starting today, stream thousands of hours of the best Korean TV shows and movies, all for free on your Samsung TV. …

Alexa Alfano /
WORLD SCREEN: Samsung TV Plus Acquires Raft Of K-Content

Reuters:

Russian journalists Antonina Favorskaya, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, and Artem Kriger go on trial in Moscow over their alleged links to Alexei Navalny— Four Russian journalists went on trial in Moscow on Wednesday on charges of involvement in an “extremist” group after authorities accused …

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The Hollywood Reporter:

New Yorker union members vote to authorize a strike ahead of the magazine's annual festival as they negotiate a second contract with Condé Nast— More than six months into negotiations over a second labor contract, the magazine's union is asserting that wage floors …

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@newyorkerunion: After months of negotiations, management has proposed raising the salary floor from $60,000 to $61,500. Our proposed minimum is $67,000: a fair baseline for the rising cost of living. Prestige can't feed us; we want fair pay for everyone at The @NewYorker, and we want it now. [image]

TechCrunch:

YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page— YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.

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Sam Gutelle /
Tubefilter: YouTube is letting Shorts be longer

Mia Sato /
The Verge: YouTube Shorts are getting less short

Kenny Smith /
@kennysmith.bsky.social: The Social Media Sameness Singularity continues (Smith, 2016). [embedded post]

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