Three journalists were turned away from an Azerbaijan energy conference earlier in June, prompting concern over media access ahead of UN climate talks there (The Guardian)

Mediagazer: Three journalists were turned away from an Azerbaijan energy conference earlier in June, prompting concern over media access ahead of UN climate talks there (The Guardian)

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Semafor:

The Wall Street Journal EIC Emma Tucker says she felt vindicated by the debate, after previously facing criticism for coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity— The News — Prominent liberal columnists are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside following a widely-panned debate performance …
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Jeremy Barr /
Washington Post: CNN debate moderators didn't fact-check. Not everyone is happy about it.

Michael M. Grynbaum /
New York Times: One by One, Biden's Closest Media Allies Defect After the Debate Fox News: ABC's ‘The View’ erupts with calls for Biden to step aside after debate: ‘Maybe he needs to go’

Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: WSJ editor-in-chief reportedly feels vindicated over coverage of Biden's age, mental ‘slipping’

Mark Leibovich /
The Atlantic: Time to Go, Joe — Biden needs to step aside—for the sake of his own dignity …

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: I asked WSJ EIC Emma Tucker if she felt vindicated after tonight by the publication's recent piece about Biden's age, which was the subject of a lot of partisan complaints https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

Dave Goldiner /
New York Daily News: Democrats openly panic over Biden's debate versus Trump, though some allies insist he's still up to job Associated Press: Biden tries to quell concerns after an unsteady debate showing as he and Trump head to swing states

Irie Sentner /
Politico: 'This can't continue': Biden-sympathizing columnists urge him to step aside

Robert Kuttner /
American Prospect: A Tarnished Silver Lining

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: Remember how much shit WSJ took for the Biden age story? https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: Media wrap from @maxwelltani -Liberal media turns on Biden -WSJ EIC Emma Tucker takes a victory lap -Interview with CNN chief Mark Thompson https://www.semafor.com/...

Reuters:

In a parliamentary hearing, Meta says it is considering blocking news content from Facebook in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees— Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees …

The Guardian:

Three journalists were turned away from an Azerbaijan energy conference earlier in June, prompting concern over media access ahead of UN climate talks there— Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year

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@glynmoody@mastodon.social

Nieman Lab:

Spain's El Pais launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers— “The best reader is the one who reads you a lot.” — For years and with various levels of success, U.S. news outlets have tried …

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LatAm Journalism Review

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Nieman Lab:

Tests show that ChatGPT is hallucinating URLs in some citations, directing users to broken links for at least 10 news publications with OpenAI licensing deals— Nieman Lab's tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.

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Adam Johnson /
@adamjohnsonchi: We must PAUSE this tech imminently, it is mere months from becoming a god-like entity

Jared Holt /
@jaredlholt: For all the fears and talks of an “AI-powered future” around the tech industry, the crux of the issue here is that the tech sucks and is being forced out of production anyway, making it the consumer's problem

Andrew Deck /
@decka227: ChatGPT is hallucinating fake URLs for at least 10 publications that have OpenAI licensing deals. I tested the chatbot's ability to cite its news sources for @NiemanLab. It regularly generated broken links to even its partners' biggest investigations. https://www.niemanlab.org/...

David Whelan /
@davidpwhelan@mastodon.world: Interesting read @niemanlab on results of media platform content partnerships with AI companies: fake URLs and 404s. When it generated relevant URLs, they were NOT to the media partner. So partnership does not seem to result in any better outcome than the AI-generated summary cards (that also inhibit referrer traffic). …

Andrew Deck /
TVNewsCheck: ChatGPT Is Hallucinating Fake Links To Its News Partners' Biggest Investigations

Pranav Dixit /
Engadget: Please don't get your news from AI chatbots @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host: Well this is absolutely fucknuts — ‘In my testing, I repeatedly prompted ChatGPT to link out to these publications’ marquee articles, including Pulitzer Prize-winning stories and years-long investigations.... All together, my tests show that ChatGPT is currently unable to reliably link out to even these most noteworthy stories by partner publications.' …

TechCrunch:

The White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference in August to “emphasize the Administration's commitment to creators”— President Joe Biden's administration is doubling down on its interest in the creator economy.

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Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo

Variety:

CNN says the Biden-Trump debate was watched by nearly 48M viewers, based on early Nielsen Fast National numbers, with 12.6M in the key 25-54 age demographic— The early results are in, and CNN appeared to be the biggest winner from Thursday's train wreck of a presidential debate.

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New York Post, Mediaite, Washington Post, Forbes, The Wrap, CNN, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, Next TV, Deadline, @dylanbyers, @brianstelter and Adweek

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Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: CNN says Biden-Trump debate draws nearly 48M viewers — most in network's history

Zachary Leeman /
Mediaite: JUST IN: Biden-Trump Debate Ratings Are In — Most Watched Program In CNN's History

Stephen Battaglio /
Los Angeles Times: CNN Biden-Trump debate draws nearly 50 million TV viewers, a major drop from 2020

Ross O'Keefe /
Washington Examiner: Biden's nightmare debate brought in 48 million viewers — 25 million fewer than 2020's first matchup

Jon Lafayette /
Next TV: 48 Million Watched CNN's Biden-Trump Debate

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: CNN Says 47.9 Million Watched Presidential Debate; TV Viewership Drops Considerably From 2020

Dylan Byers /
@dylanbyers: CNN Debate *fast national* (not final) ratings in detail: Fox News: 8.82 million CNN: 8.75 million ABC: 8.70 million NBC: 5.17 million CBS: 4.81 million MSNBC: 3.94 million FOX: 3.48 million Fox Business: 372,000 HLN: 251,000 CNN Espanol: 46,000

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: This just in from CNN: “A combined 47.9 million total viewers watched the CNN Presidential Debate on television last night” across all the networks where it appeared.

Wired:

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so— AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …

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Robert Hof /
SiliconANGLE: Generative AI's big copyright battle commences, and chip upstarts target AI workloads

Thomas Barrabi /
New York Post: Amazon probing AI startup Perplexity for ‘scraping’ websites without permission: report

Noah Shachtman /
@noahshachtman: Should be a pretty quick investigation. RTFA, Amazon.

Sharveya Parasnis /
MEDIANAMA: Amazon Investigating Perplexity for Terms of Service Violations: Report

Lauren Goode /
@laurengoode: Amazon's cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI, to determine whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that tried to prevent it from doing so https://www.wired.com/... via @AndrewCouts @dmehro

Mariella Moon /
Engadget: Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent

Tim Marchman /
@timmarchman: NEW from @AndrewCouts and @dmehro: Amazon Web Services is investigating Perplexity following a WIRED investigation into the “answer engine.” Clients must, Amazon tells WIRED, respect robots.txt: https://www.wired.com/...

Chris Harihar /
@chrisharihar: Perplexity is basically saying they follow the robots.txt protocol in relation to “normal” web crawling, but they make an exception when there's a direct user request to access a URL. Is there anything to really do here, especially if no technical enforcement for the publisher?

Dhruv Mehrotra /
@dmehro: NEW: Perplexity was using a secret AWS-hosted virtual machine to scrape the web. Major newsroom we spoke to observed its IP address in their server logs. Now Amazon is investigating. w/ @AndrewCouts https://www.wired.com/...

Robb Knight /
@robb@social.lol: ⭐ Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse https://www.wired.com/... “Amazon's cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so” …

Sarah Emerson /
@sarahnemerson: “The machine associated with Perplexity appears to be engaged in widespread crawling of news websites that forbid bots from accessing its content. Spokespeople for the Guardian, Forbes, and The New York Times also say they detected the IP address on its servers multiple times.”

Casey Newton /
@crumbler@threads.net: Should be a quick investigation!

Elizabeth Lopatto /
The Verge: Perplexity's grand theft AI

New York Times:

Sources: Tom Ortenberg and Briarcliff Entertainment are pushing to acquire The Apprentice for US release, negotiating with Kinematics, backed by Dan Snyder— “The Apprentice,” a dramatized origin story about Donald J. Trump, has faced fierce criticism from the former president and his allies.

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Slate, The Wrap, Washington Post, Deadline and Showbiz411

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Mary Harris /
Slate: Why No Hollywood Studio Wants to Touch the Trump Biopic

Umberto Gonzalez /
The Wrap: ‘The Apprentice’ Close to Deal for Pre-Election Release as Producers Pay Out Pro-Trump Investor | Exclusive

Jada Yuan /
Washington Post: Inside the battle to release controversial Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’

Mike Fleming Jr /
Deadline: Hot-Button Film ‘The Apprentice’ Moving Toward U.S. Deal With Briarcliff To Release Cannes Sensation On Donald Trump & Roy Cohn - The Dish

Front Office Sports:

A Los Angeles jury sides against the NFL in a Sunday Ticket antitrust trial, saying the league owes $4.7B+ to subscribers and $96M to bars and restaurants— A jury in Los Angeles sided against the NFL on Thursday in the Sunday Ticket trial that could cost the league billions.

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Awful Announcing, @meghanncuniff, The Streamable, Barrett Media, Financial Times, @loudmouthjulia, @eriqgardner, @meghanncuniff, Sports Media Watch, New York Times, The Wrap, Fox Business, CBS News, Ad Age, The Verge, Variety, ESPN, NBCSports.com, USA Today, ABC7, Awful Announcing, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter and Sportico

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Awful Announcing: Mike Florio: Sunday Ticket customers could receive huge compensation after antitrust verdict

Meghann Cuniff /
@meghanncuniff: @NFL @DIRECTV Jury in the Sunday Ticket antitrust trial orders NFL to pay $96 million in damages to commercial class and $4 BILLION in damages to the residential class.

David Satin /
The Streamable: Jury Rules Against NFL in Sunday Ticket Case; How Much Will NFL Broadcasting Change This Season?

Sara Germano /
Financial Times: NFL hit with $4.7bn antitrust verdict over ‘Sunday Ticket’ game package

Julia Alexander /
@loudmouthjulia: Appeals will happen, but what a significant ruling. https://frontofficesports.com/ ...

Eriq Gardner /
@eriqgardner: And as much as $12 billion is 👀, the more significant impact could be each NFL team becoming free to make their own streaming deals. Yes, there will be an appeal (calling Brett Kavanaugh), but this may be a real game-changer.

Eriq Gardner /
@eriqgardner: Wow! And good chance it gets tripled to $12 billion! https://frontofficesports.com/ ...

Meghann Cuniff /
@meghanncuniff: NFL Sunday Ticket is currently available through YouTube TV. Neither Google nor YouTube are defendants in this case, but plaintiffs' attorneys squarely implicated them in trial, telling jurors the price-fixing conspiracy continues to this day.

Meghann Cuniff /
@meghanncuniff: @NFL @DIRECTV “It's a great verdict for the consumers of America,” lead @SusmanGodfrey attorney Bill Carmody told reporters. Carmody said the jury upheld antitrust laws “despite the star power of the defendants.”

Jacob Bryant /
The Wrap: NFL to Pay $4.7 Billion in ‘Sunday Ticket’ Antitrust Damages, LA Jury Rules CBS News: Jury in NFL “Sunday Ticket” case rules league violated antitrust laws, awards nearly $4.8 billion in damages

Richard Lawler /
The Verge: Sunday Ticket jury orders NFL to pay fans $4.7 billion in damages

Todd Spangler /
Variety: NFL Socked With $4.7 Billion-Plus Verdict in Sunday Ticket Case, League to Appeal Decision

Mike Florio /
NBCSports.com: NFL vows to “certainly contest” multi-billion-dollar verdict in Sunday Ticket case

Joe Reedy /
ABC7: Jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case and awards $4.7 billion in damages

Sam Farmer /
Los Angeles Times: NFL ordered to pay billions in damages for ‘overcharged’ Sunday Ticket

Michael McCann /
Sportico: NFL Ordered to Pay $4.7 Billion in Sunday Ticket Trial Verdict

Los Angeles Times:

The California State Senate passes SB 1327, a bill aimed at imposing a “data extraction mitigation fee” on Big Tech to help fund local journalism— The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

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Rebekah Entralgo /
The NewsGuild: Newsletter: Journalism Legislation Advances in California! California State Legislature: Bill Text — SB-1327 Income taxation: credits: local news media: data extraction transactions.

Steven Waldman /
@stevenwaldman: WOW. The California Senate just voted to approved, by 2/3 vote, SB1327, Sen. Glazers bill to provide $500 million for local news, paid for by a tax on the big tech companies. Huge breakthrough.

Senator Catherine Blakespear /
@senblakespear: I am proud to be a co-author of #SB1327, by @Steve_Glazer. Journalism is critical to our democracy. As a former journalist, I know the value of news and an informed public, and we need it for democracy to work. Glad to see it pass the Senate today! @AsmBuffyWicks @CNPAservices [image]

Matt Pearce /
@mattdpearce: Pardon my language, but holy shit: The California Senate just voted 27-7 to advance Senator @Steve_Glazer's SB 1327, which would tax big tech to fund hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of journalist employment tax credits in California. https://mattdpearce.substack.com/ ...

Matt Pearce /
@mattdpearce: It's officially JOURNALISM POLICY SUMMER in California with Assemblymember @BuffyWicks' CJPA and Senator @Steve_Glazer's SB 1327 both advancing this week! We have not seen American journalism policy this ambitious since the creation of Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 👏 @progresschamber: Surprise! The California Senate just pushed a digital ad tax through at the last minute. In a vote today without notice, the CA Senate rushed SB 1327 to the floor despite concerns it will raise costs for small businesses and consumers. Our statement: https://progresschamber.org/ ... [image] Matt Pearce: Breaking news: California Senate advances a major data mining tax to fund journalism jobs

Mumbrella:

Nine CEO tells staff that around 200 jobs, ~4% of its workforce, will be cut, including up to 90 roles from Publishing and 38 from news and current affairs— Up to 200 jobs are set to be made redundant at Nine as soon as Friday. — Nine Entertainment CEO Mike Sneesby notified staff of the move …

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Sydney Morning Herald, TV Tonight, @meadea, @colonelhogans, @therealpbarry, @calumjaspan_, @maxwalden_, @anguslivingston, Crikey, Mediaweek, AdNews News, Capital Brief and TV Tonight

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David Knox /
TV Tonight: Nine staff vote no confidence in CEO, Board.

Amanda Meade /
@meadea: Nine Entertainment chief executive Mike Sneesby has told staff the company is cutting 200 jobs due to the “economic headwinds” facing the media, with the biggest cuts to come from legacy mastheads the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Rick /
@colonelhogans: While keep paying Karl Stephanovic $2M per year to talk shit.... Nine to cut up to 200 jobs as ‘economic headwinds’ bite @smh

Paul Barry /
@therealpbarry: Cuts, cuts, more cuts. Australian MSM in heaps of trouble Nine to cut up to 200 jobs as ‘economic headwinds’ bite https://www.smh.com.au/...

Calum Jaspan /
@calumjaspan_: SMH and The Age parent company Nine to cut up to 200 jobs, around 4pc of company headcount. Up to 90 to go in publishing division. Story @theage @smh https://www.smh.com.au/...

Max Walden /
@maxwalden_: Australia's largest locally owned media conglomerate Nine will shed 200 staff as a deal with Meta ends, per CEO Mike Sneesby. Some 70-90 of these jobs across successful publishing division - Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, WA Today [image]

Angus Livingston /
@anguslivingston: Nine has 5000 employees, half the job cuts are coming in the relatively small Publishing division, which has been strongly profitable and passed those profits through to shareholders

Daanyal Saeed /