4:30 AM ET, May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
3:45 AM
Clara Aberneithie / Press Gazette:
Interviews with journalists from BBC Russia, BBC Persia, and BBC Arabic about BBC World Service's 310 exiled journalists, fighting censorship, and more
2:40 AM
Casey Newton / Platformer:
AI search's arrival bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded
2:10 AM
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adam Mosseri says Threads “recently rolled out” its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months
2:00 AM
Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal:
Fake studies have flooded publishers of scientific journals, resulting in retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue; Wiley plans to close 19 journals
May 14, 2024
11:00 PM
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Jimmy Finkelstein met with potential investors to drum up interest in a new venture, which is in the planning stages, after The Messenger's failure
9:55 PM
Washington Post:
Eight TikTok creators sue the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing the move violates their First Amendment rights
9:25 PM
Ty Pendlebury / CNET:
Google unveils Music AI Sandbox, a suite of music tools that include the ability to create loops via text, without disclosing when it will be publicly available
8:10 PM
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
YouTube says it will comply with a Hong Kong court order to block 32 video links, after the government sought to ban the Glory to Hong Kong protest anthem
5:25 PM
Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with NPR's David Folkenflik and Floodlight's Miranda Green on uncovering how The Richmond Standard, a local newspaper, was set up as Chevron's mouthpiece
4:45 PM
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Reddit launches new tools for its Ask Me Anything Q&A feature, including a dedicated AMA tab, support for up to five guest hosts, and promotional options
4:25 PM
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Reddit's stock closed up 7.13% on May 14, as posts on r/WallStreetBets drive a meme stocks rally; GameStop closed up 60.10% and AMC up 31.98%
4:00 PM
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Nielsen launches The Media Distributor Gauge, showing TV usage ranked by company: Disney accounted for 11.5% of TV viewing in April, YouTube accounted for 9.6%
3:05 PM
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
TelevisaUnivision says Vix now has 50M MAUs, up 70% YoY, and plans to launch the previously announced ad-supported tier of Vix on May 15
2:25 PM
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Google expands its SynthID watermark imprinting system to AI-generated video and text; the tool can already attempt to detect AI-generated images and audio
2:20 PM
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year
2:05 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: some conservative operatives have raised $1M+ to launch Washington Reporter, a conservative-leaning outlet aiming to rival Punchbowl and Politico
12:35 PM
Marisa Guthrie / WWD:
Complex names Aria Hughes as editor-in-chief and Noah Callahan-Bever as chief content officer and buys Callahan-Bever's media company, Idea Generation
12:05 PM
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Sony Pictures Television announces Pop Culture Jeopardy, a Jeopardy spinoff that will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video; the host is yet to be announced
9:55 AM
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Sam Feist, CNN's longtime Washington bureau chief and senior vice president, will leave the network at the end of June to become C-SPAN CEO
9:40 AM
Emma Bubola / New York Times:
Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof says he has fled the country to Europe, after an Iranian court sentenced him to eight years in prison for his movies
9:10 AM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price”
9:05 AM
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$22.1B and online ad revenue up 26% YoY to ~$3.66B driven by upgraded ad infrastructure and WeChat Video Accounts
8:30 AM
Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian:
An Australian court sentences ex-army lawyer David McBride to five years and eight months for stealing Afghanistan war docs and leaking them to Australia's ABC
7:45 AM
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Lawyer: the BBC will pay “substantial” compensation to Princess Diana's ex-chauffeur over “serious and unfounded” allegations made by Martin Bashir in 1995
4:45 AM
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
An interview with the Kyiv Independent ex-Defense Correspondent Illia Ponomarenko about his new book on Russia's Ukraine invasion, social media, and more
May 13, 2024
9:15 PM
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Lionsgate Studios, the company's film and TV studio business separated from Starz, begins trading on the NASDAQ via a SPAC merger, raising $350M
6:40 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Rumble sues Google, saying Google owes Rumble $1B+ in damages for lost ad revenue and for exploiting its ad tech dominance to hamper Rumble's ability to compete
4:30 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku gets exclusive multiyear rights for MLB's Sunday Leadoff live games, starting May 19, a package previously held by NBCUniversal's Peacock
4:00 PM
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The New Yorker confirms blocking readers in the UK from reading an article about convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby, to comply with a UK court order
2:40 PM
Alexander Martin / The Record:
Hundreds of local and regional newspaper websites run by the UK's Newsquest were defaced on May 13 by a group calling itself “first-class Russian hackers”
1:55 PM
Amber Neely / AppleInsider:
Apple News+ gets Offline Mode, which automatically downloads recent, personalized content for offline reading, and a new spelling game called Quartiles
1:00 PM
Washington Post:
Some publishers worry about the impact of AI summaries in Google's Search Generative Experience; Raptive estimates some may lose up to 60% of their traffic
11:35 AM
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
WGA East asks Vox Media to let employees at The Dodo and Thrillist merge into the Vox Media Union; Vox bought The Dodo and Thrillist parent Group Nine in 2021
9:35 AM
Neal Mohan / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan argues that creators should be eligible for Emmys, as the awards “should reflect what viewers are actually watching on their TV screens”
8:30 AM
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Le Monde in English, which makes up 10% of new Le Monde subscribers, hopes Paris Olympics and the US election will help reach 1M subscribers by the end of 2025
7:20 AM
Priyanka.G / Reuters:
Tencent Music reports Q1 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $937M, profit up 27.5% YoY to $212M, music subscription revenue up 39.2% YoY to $501M, and 113.5M paying users
May 12, 2024
9:50 PM
Max Tani / Semafor:
Hunterbrook Media's publisher failed to disclose its ownership stake in a rival to a company that was recently the subject of a critical Hunterbrook article
6:35 PM
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representatives to propose a new performance-based compensation regime, as Amazon and Netflix work on similar plans
12:45 PM
Financial Times:
In a letter, the UK's News Media Association warns Apple that imposing a “web eraser” tool to block ads would threaten journalism's financial sustainability
May 11, 2024
10:00 PM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ahead of YouTube's Brandcast, three top creators talk about producing polished content to be viewed on TVs and how YouTube connects them with audiences at scale
3:00 PM
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
How Acquired, a podcast that offers case studies of successful companies in monthly four-hour episodes, became a favorite among C-suite and VP-level executives
May 10, 2024
8:20 PM
Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute:
Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels, citing government notices
6:35 PM
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Talk radio station WABC suspends Rudy Giuliani and cancels his daily show, saying he broke rules by trying to discuss discredited claims about 2020's election
6:05 PM
Louis Staples / Rolling Stone:
Ahead of the Eurovision finals on May 11, tensions over the Israel-Gaza war complicate the organizers' efforts to maintain an appearance of political neutrality
5:00 PM
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
How the NYT and nonprofits City Bureau and Invisible Institute trained custom machine learning tools to help with their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations
3:05 PM
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Studies show a negativity bias in US coverage of the economy and gas prices, particularly cable news, as the tone of economic news moves away from reality
2:25 PM
The Assembly NC:
The Assembly, a three-year-old digital magazine “on power and place in North Carolina”, announces it plans a Greensboro bureau, with local philanthropic funding
1:30 PM
Jonah McKeown / Catholic News Agency:
Three Catholic radio stations file a petition against the FCC over requirements mandating that radio and TV stations publish info about staff race and gender
12:40 PM
John Ourand / Puck:
Sources: Netflix is nearing a deal to stream two NFL games on December 25
12:10 PM
Josh Rottenberg / Los Angeles Times:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces a $500M campaign to extend its influence globally and diversify revenue as Oscars ratings drop
11:40 AM
A.J. Perez / Front Office Sports:
Lineup Publishing says it plans to relaunch Deadspin next week; it appears the new Deadspin will focus on sports betting
9:45 AM
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Spotify's head of podcast studios, Julie McNamara, is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify's reduced ambitions in podcasts
8:50 AM
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding