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Ted Turner’s vision of news as global and continuous changed both the industry and society itself

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Ted Turner’s eerie CNN “doomsday video” — only to be aired when the world ends — resurfaces after media mogul’s death

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What’s it like to spend your life in the internet’s craziest corners? Ask Will Sommer.

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Senate Democrats press top media regulator Brendan Carr to back off ABC

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Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio

“For the last few years, apps like Google’s NotebookLM, Hero, and lately Adobe Acrobat have given users the ability to create podcasts based on existing material like documents, daily schedules, and ...
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How a paywall plus philanthropy saved The Philadelphia Inquirer

“The return to profitability has allowed the Inquirer to reinvest in expansion to South Jersey, which [CEO Lisa] Hughes calls ‘a little bit of a news desert.’ The South Jersey Regional will be a ...
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News podcasts are, increasingly, something you watch (but The Daily still works best as audio)

Video as a medium is extremely personable and transferrable,” Nina Lassam, vice president of audio and video news at The New ...
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Australia’s building a great system to fund local journalism — but it doesn’t want to use it

Its proposed replacement for the News Media Bargaining Code retains its original sin: pretending that a public policy ...
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The white man claiming The New York Times discriminates against white men

“Reporters at the paper have been scrambling to figure out the employee’s identity, driven in part by bafflement that one of their own colleagues would sell out the paper to the administration, which ...
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FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel

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A source thought I was a bot. How can reporters prove they’re human?

I’ve also changed how I write my outreach emails. Previously, I would offer a brief explanation of the story and what the source would contribute, offer to answer some questions, then ask to set up a ...
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“Increasingly it is the case that before you even get to publication, lawsuits come raining down on you.”

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker on a recent trend of powerful people suing media outlets before they’ve published stories. “Deep-pocketed people [are] doing this as a PR strategy,” she ...