Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel (Rodney Tiffen/Inside Story)

Mediagazer: Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel (Rodney Tiffen/Inside Story)

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Inside Story:

Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel— Fresh revelations suggest that the scandalous behaviour at London-based Murdoch newspapers was wider and deeper than previously believed
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CNBC:

Sources: WBD continues to hold talks with the NBA about keeping the rights, but it's more likely the league signs papers with NBCUniversal, forcing WBD to match— Whether it's two people in a marriage or a company and a sports league, it's not easy to break up a 40-year partnership.

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@sherman4949, @alvierado, @kentfoss, Sports Media Watch, The Streamable, Barrett Media, Awful Announcing and Vanity Fair

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Alex Sherman /
@sherman4949: NBA update: The league continues to hold talks with Warner Bros Discovery on striking a deal, but what's most likely to happen is the NBA signs papers with NBCUniversal and forces $WBD to match. What happens then could become a legal matter. Story here: https://www.cnbc.com/...

Alvie Stoddard /
@alvierado: @sherman4949 I don't see how WBD wouldn't be cut out of Venu if they don't retain the NBA. Sure they have MM but I don't see how ESPN and Fox would be willing to give up ⅓ ownership for mostly just that.

Ken Foss /
@kentfoss: Remember when people thought the NBA wasn't going to get a good TV deal? It might 4x when it's all said and done. Suns might able to go get KAT at this rate.

David Satin /
The Streamable: If Warner Bros. Discovery Loses the NBA, is Venu Doomed? Why Does the NBA Seemingly Prefer NBC's Offer? Barrett Media: Report: NBA Likely to Agree to Media Rights Package with NBCUniversal, Could Lead to Potential Litigation

Brendon Kleen /
Awful Announcing: TNT losing NBA rights not expected to jeopardize new Venu Sports streaming venture

Tom Kludt /
Vanity Fair: The Multibillion-Dollar Fight for the NBA

New York Times:

Sources: Sony and Apollo sign NDAs but back away from their $26B offer for Paramount's assets, partly due to Sony shareholders' concerns over streaming costs— The two companies have expressed interest in acquiring the media conglomerate, but are backing away from their $26 billion all-cash offer.

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Deadline, @benmullin, @shanabellucy, The Wrap, Reuters, Deadline and Financial Times

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Anthony D'Alessandro /
Deadline: NBCU's Donna Langley On Impact Of Possible Sony-Paramount Merger: “There Will Be Further Consolidation...It's Sad” - Cannes

Ben Mullin /
@benmullin: scoop w/@LaurenSHirsch — Sony and Apollo have signed NDAs with Paramount, a significant step forward in their bid. However, they are backing away from their plan to make a $26 billion, all-cash offer for the company. New structures are being considered: https://www.nytimes.com/... @shanabellucy: @BenMullin @LaurenSHirsch The signing of NDAs signals Sony and Apollo's serious intent, but rethinking the $26B all-cash offer is prudent. Exploring alternative deal structures that unlock value while addressing streaming challenges could lead to a win-win for both sides

Ross A. Lincoln /
The Wrap: Sony-Apollo Backs Away From $26 Billion Paramount Bid but Paves Way to Continued Deal Talks, NDAs

Mrinmay Dey /
Reuters: Sony and Apollo move ahead with Paramount bid process but reticent about earlier plan, NYT reports

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: Sony & Paramount Sign Non-Disclosure Agreement Allowing Deal Talks To Start, But It's Not Looking Like A $26 Billion Bid For Whole Company Anymore

Bloomberg:

A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming— Now all he's got to figure out is live programming, sports, gaming, pricing and, oh, advertising. — In mid-February, Greg Peters …

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@lucas_shaw,

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Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: Netflix has watched every other streaming service copy its user interface. Here is how its co-CEO judges the competition: [image]

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: In early 2022, Netflix was in trouble. It had lost users — and more than $200 billion in value. Its turnaround over the last two years has been rapid, and Peters led the initiatives — password sharing and advertising — that made it possible. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: Greg Peters is one of the most powerful media executives in the world. And yet, he's got no public profile. I spent the past several months speaking to the co-CEO of Netflix (and those around him) for the latest @BW. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

South China Morning Post:

The US says it is deeply concerned over reports that Zhang Zhan, imprisoned after covering COVID-19 in China, has disappeared after her expected prison release— - Zhang Zhan, arrested in 2020 after reporting on coronavirus in Wuhan, has not been heard from since her expected prison release date, advocates say

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@ameshaa, @statedeptspox, @angoffinet, Daily Mail, UPI and BBC

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Amesh Adalja /
@ameshaa: “She was the first to face trial for reporting on the pandemic in the central Chinese city and received the harshest punishment” https://www.scmp.com/...

Matthew Miller /
@statedeptspox: The United States is concerned about reports that PRC citizen journalist Zhang Zhan disappeared after her expected release date from prison on May 13. We reiterate our call for the PRC to respect the human rights of all journalists, who should be able to report freely.

Andre Goffinet /
@angoffinet: She was supposed to be released on monday, but where is she? https://www.scmp.com/...

Bethan Sexton /
Daily Mail: Fears for missing Wuhan journalist as she vanishes upon prison release after serving four years for filming COVID lab leak

Nieman Lab:

Q&A with New Yorker journalist Rachel Aviv on her Lucy Letby article, the cost of trial transcripts in the UK, the police documentary about the case, and more— “So much of the media coverage — and the trial itself — started at the point at which we've determined that [Lucy] …

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Gina Rushton /
@ginarush: So many great insights into Aviv's writing process in this interview about the Letby piece https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Sarah Scire /
@sarahscire: The only time I unironically use 🚨 in the @NiemanLab Slack is when new work from @RachelAviv drops. On her reporting methods and why her new blockbuster @NewYorker article is banned in the U.K. https://www.niemanlab.org/... Nieman Journalism Lab on LinkedIn: For her 13,000-plus-word story “A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?”, New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv drew on text messages …

Laura Wagner /
Washington Post: Why Brits can't read a New Yorker exposé about a British murder case

David Whelan /
@davidpwhelan@mastodon.world: A look at how journalist Rachel Aviv, who wrote the new #NewYorker piece on Lucy Letby (convicted of murder in the UK), approached writing the article: acquiring court transcripts, process, Scrivener, US v UK court information restrictions, info misrepresentation by state authorities. …

New York Times:

Source: Roku's Sunday morning MLB package is worth $30M over three years, but the MLB can earn more from ads; Peacock paid $30M/year for the package before— Major League Baseball's Sunday morning package on Roku, called “Sunday Leadoff,” is worth a total of $30 million over three years …

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@tvgrimreaper and Awful Announcing

TechCrunch:

Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries— Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year.

Washington Post:

Seven Black and female Chicago Tribune journalists file a federal suit against Alden, claiming it has knowingly paid them less than White and male counterparts— It's the latest revolt by journalists at a newspaper owned by Alden Global Capital. — Chicago Tribune journalists filed suit Thursday …

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Boing Boing, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, @jsmithrichards, @royalpratt, @ctguild and Associated Press

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Rob Beschizza /
Boing Boing: Photographer wins lawsuit against alleged painter who plagiarized her work

Kade Heather /
Chicago Sun Times: Chicago Tribune journalists file discrimination suit against paper

Robert Channick /
Chicago Tribune: Chicago Tribune journalists file lawsuit alleging pay discrimination against female and Black employees

Jennifer Smith Richards /
@jsmithrichards: I am absolutely in awe of the named plaintiffs — all extraordinary journalists. They are standing up for what is fair and just. Thank you to @ChristyGutowsk1 @DarcelTribune @StaceyWescott1 @Mabuckley88 Terrence James @neacynewslady and Colleen Kujawa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Gregory Royal Pratt /
@royalpratt: Our colleagues who are suing Tribune over wage discrimination are some of the bravest folks I know. @ctguild told the company ages ago about outrageous pay gaps and they gaslit our workers while refusing to fix it. I stand with our journalists today/always https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @ctguild: Today, 7 brave Chicago Tribune employees sued the company for wage discrimination. We support them, admire them & reject the gross unfairness owner Alden has overseen. Together, we will end it. Here's why this matters (1/8): https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Reuters:

OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit; RDDT is up 12%+— Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform's content to popular chatbot ChatGPT …

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Tieja MacLaughlin on LinkedIn, Natasha Moraes on LinkedIn, Craig McCosker on LinkedIn, Will O'Hara on LinkedIn, Joel Deutscher on LinkedIn, MEDIANAMA, The Verge, Ars Technica, Reddit Upvoted, Amanda Guisbond on LinkedIn, The Register, CNBC, Sherwood News, Conan Hines on LinkedIn, Glenn Gabe on LinkedIn, Quartz, Fast Company, Associated Press, @lilyraynyc, @mikeisaac, @kyliebytes, @andrewcurran_, @haydenfield, @shiringhaffary, @leanmediaorg, @kantrowitz, @ryanjones, @lilyraynyc, @openai, @sipi@union.place, Search Engine Journal, Norman Brauns on LinkedIn, Reuters, Engadget, @juliancday@writing.exchange, Axios, Benzinga, @crumbler@threads.net, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter and @aarongreenspan.com

Discussion: @reddit:

Tieja MacLaughlin /
Tieja MacLaughlin on LinkedIn: What could go wrong training an AI model with Reddit data? — Everything. — Reddit is notoriously the most unhinged site on the internet. …

Natasha Moraes /
Natasha Moraes on LinkedIn: OpenAI crosses the final frontier? This partnership with Reddit gives it direct access to a huge repository of crowdsourced knowledge, user research, and first-hand experiences. …

Craig McCosker /
Craig McCosker on LinkedIn: Reddit (aka 'the front page of the internet') and OpenAI have announced a partnership. The latest Reddit content will appear in ChatGPT …

Will O'Hara /
Will O'Hara on LinkedIn: Reddit has stepped up its game...again. — First the Google partnership in Feb, giving them access to the Data API then seeing their SERPs *flooded* with #Reddit content. …

Joel Deutscher /
Joel Deutscher on LinkedIn: Big news today for OpenAI and Reddit today. No, this isn't an impressive tech demo, though it might be more important. …

Vallari Sanzgiri /
MEDIANAMA: Reddit and OpenAI Team Up for AI Integration and Advertising

Emilia David /
The Verge: OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

Scharon Harding /
Ars Technica: OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal

Amanda Guisbond /
Amanda Guisbond on LinkedIn: Whoa. This is a big deal. And an opportunity for #healthcare innovators to take advantage of ChatGPT's integration of Reddit data …

Brandon Vigliarolo /
The Register: Reddit goes AI agnostic, signs data training deal with OpenAI

Hayden Field /
CNBC: Reddit soars after announcing OpenAI deal that allows use of its data for training AI models

Jamie Wilde /
Sherwood News: Hey ChatGPT, AITA?

Conan Hines /
Conan Hines on LinkedIn: I've been screaming for months how if LLMs just had more AITA posts and shower thoughts we'd be at AGI already. Thank you OpenAI and Reddit, Inc. for listening 🙏

Glenn Gabe /
Glenn Gabe on LinkedIn: If you don't like how Reddit has surged recently in Google, then you definitely aren't going to like this news. …

Rocio Fabbro /
Quartz: OpenAI will use Reddit content to train ChatGPT

Christopher Zara /
Fast Company: Reddit stock price sees fresh high after content deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI

Lily Ray /
@lilyraynyc: Damn... Reddit data is apparently a goldmine for LLMs. Now BOTH Google and OpenAI are training their models on... Reddit content? What could possibly go wrong?

Rat King /
@mikeisaac: significant! Looks like OAI and Reddit reached an API deal — Reddit gains $$$ and mod tools, OAI gains new conversation data curious how users take this....

Kylie Robison /
@kyliebytes: reddit really making the most out of data licensing deals at the bloomberg tech event, they did a poll on what would be reddit's biggest source of revenue (ads, data licensing deals etc) and ads won by far but i voted data licensing lol

Andrew Curran /
@andrewcurran_: The reddit post. They already allow Google to use their content for training data for Gemini. This seems to imply OpenAI can also train off user posts going forward. The Alphabet data-access contract pays out $60 million a year. No numbers on this one yet. [image]

Hayden Field /
@haydenfield: Reddit shares surged 11% in extended trading on Thursday after the social media company announced a partnership with OpenAI, which will allow the ChatGPT-maker to train its AI models on Reddit content. https://www.cnbc.com/...

Shirin Ghaffary /
@shiringhaffary: OpenAI is on a roll with media/publishing deals: Reddit, Dotdash Meredith, Financial Times, all announced within the past several weeks @leanmediaorg: This is what every large news and digital content publisher should have started working on 18 months ago. Few have. Theres an opportunity for smaller/indie publishers as well, but only after significant standardization of structured data or CMS content, maybe as a consortium.

Alex Kantrowitz /
@kantrowitz: Google no happy

Ryan Jones /
@ryanjones: If you thought Reddit and Google was great you're gonna love this Reddit and OpenAI partnership. https://openai.com/... Reddit and OpenAI today announced a partnership to benefit both the Reddit and OpenAI user communities in a number of ways. Learn more on our corporate blog. https://www.redditinc.com/... @openai: We're partnering with Reddit to bring its content to ChatGPT and new products: https://openai.com/...

Matt G. Southern /
Search Engine Journal: ChatGPT To Surface Reddit Content Via Partnership With OpenAI

Norman Brauns /
Norman Brauns on LinkedIn: 👇 OpenAI just struck a deal to bring Reddit content into ChatGPT, and this could be a game-changer for the SEO industry. …

Pranav Dixit /
Engadget: OpenAI strikes deal to put Reddit posts in ChatGPT

Julian Day /
@juliancday@writing.exchange: Deleted my Reddit account ✌️ — https://www.theverge.com/...

Ina Fried /
Axios: OpenAI inks deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT

Sarah E. Needleman /
Wall Street Journal: Reddit Signs Data-Licensing Deal With OpenAI

Michael Nuñez /
VentureBeat: OpenAI partners with Reddit to integrate unique user-generated content into ChatGPT

Committee to Protect Journalists:

The CPJ led a coalition of media and civic groups urging the US DOJ to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has a UK hearing on May 20— The Committee to Protect Journalists led a coalition of civil society organizations urging the United States Department of Justice …

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers

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CNN's Reliable Sources:

Michael Cohen testifies about his ties to reporters during Donald Trump's NY trial, showing the complicated relationships journalists often have with sources— The Donald Trump hush money trial is dragging reporters into uncomfortable territory and laying bare the complicated relationships journalists often have with sources.

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@chriscillizza, @clydehaberman, @jeffplatsky, @bgrueskin, @mindys4biden, Reuters Institute, @katiephang@threads.net, @saintbridge@threads.net, @ravishinginplaid@threads.net, @webby2001@threads.net, @oliverdarcy@threads.net, Breitbart, Daily Kos and The Hill

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Chris Cillizza /
@chriscillizza: Maggie Haberman is not just one of the best political reporters in the country. She's also one of the most honest, transparent and just plain good people in the business. Facts.

Clyde Haberman /
@clydehaberman: @ChrisCillizza I agree.

Jeffrey Platsky /
@jeffplatsky: Reporters gather string from a range of different sources. To learn that Ms. Haberman spoke to Mr. Cohen on many occasions is no surprise to veteran journalists. A seasoned reporter seeks information from all sides. It all adds to the mosaic, providing valuable insight.

Bill Grueskin /
@bgrueskin: Just your occasional reminder to reporters that they should expect that any interview they conduct might be recorded, even if they live in a state that requires consent from both parties

Mindy Fischer /
@mindys4biden: Maggie Haberman wrote 265 articles about Hillary's emails. She also wrote 141 articles about Biden's age. The fact that Michael Cohen outed her today as one of his trusted Trump puppets sure explains a lot.

Katie Phang /
@katiephang@threads.net: BLANCHE: “There were a number of times you gave Ms. Haberman a scoop? ” COHEN: Yes

Katie Phang /
@katiephang@threads.net: BLANCHE: Some of the reporters you have a strong relationship Chris Cuomo, Katy Tur, Maggie Haberman COHEN: Yes, she is with the new york times BLANCHE: You met before early 2000's and you would describe your relationship as very strong? …

Katie Phang /
@katiephang@threads.net: BLANCHE: ms haberman over the years has written a lot of articles about you? COHEN: Sounds like it, yes BLANCHE: Would you say 38 is a lot?

Katie Phang /
@katiephang@threads.net: BLANCHE: you recorded a lot of conversations with reporters ?? COHEN: I wouldn't characterize it as a lot... 40? It was probably a little more than a handful over 10 years. BLANCHE: Why did you record conversations with reporters? COHEN: For note taking so i could go back and listen to it, especially when it involved campaign @saintbridge@threads.net: I worked in newspapers 22 years and what she did is unforgivable. Reporters have ALWAYS held back from reporting on certain topics for various reasons, largely benign. But people were dying during covid. Trying tried to shake down the president of Ukraine. He planned a coup and didn't try to hide it. …

Brittany /
@ravishinginplaid@threads.net: Say whatever you'd like. But it certainly seems (from emails and corroborating testimony) that Haberman had some sort of a track record of allowing positive coverage for access. Whether you trust Cohen, or not. The two together are hard to ignore. She messed up here.

Brittany /
@ravishinginplaid@threads.net: I saw a lot of Maggie Haberman defense earlier in the week, based on “that's what journalists do.” I sat quietly and took those Threads in. Unsure how to comment. Unsure how to process. But now, after testimony...I'm sorry, but I don't want my “reputable news” with a positive spin. …

Tom Webster /
@webby2001@threads.net: Just out of curiosity, @NYTimes, why in hell is Maggie Haberman covering the cross-examination of a witness who named her as a flack for TFG in this very trial? Just wondering if you are still even trying. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Oliver Darcy /
@oliverdarcy@threads.net: The Trump hush-money trial is dragging reporters into uncomfortable territory and laying bare the complicated relationships journalists often have with sources. More in @cnnreliablesources: https://cnn.it/3WFn7E5

Paul Bois /
Breitbart: Michael Cohen Testifies He Recorded More Than 40 Phone Conversations with Reporters, Clients

Dominick Mastrangelo /