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Scoop, and a fun one:
WWE is in talks with Colorado and Michigan gambling regulators to legalize betting on matches. Yes, they're scripted. WWE has a pitch.
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On our first episode of season two of our podcast, 's shares how social media has helped creators break into traditional mediums and the major benefit that comes with it! 📱⚡️
Check it out on : bit.ly/3ISvxzj
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👀Justin Smith is sole board director of , per spox
-Semafor in process of building out an indp board “consistent w industry best practices for a new company”
-They expect to have indp board in place by time it raises first priced fundraising round
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I’m looking forward to interviewing YouTube’s new head at #WhatsNextSummit on March 29. Register below:
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Some updates on
- More than $15M revenue, per Graydon Carter, not profitable, not raising more $
- Launching new titles: Beauty and wellness, possibly auto and likely fashion this fall
- Planning one premium annual print mag and cookbooks
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pretty phenomenal media newsletter from @sarafischer today. big Air Mail, Semafor news, new companies launching, twitter investment... axios.com/newsletters/ax
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Semafor is partnering with a Chinese think tank that has a track record of misleading Western audiences about its affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party.
From Axios' and me.
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Gannett has shed nearly half its workforce since GateHouse merger in 2019
- More than 10,000 jobs cut in less than four years
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Scoop: Ari Emanuel's Endeavor invested in Twitter 2.0 in mid-January
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[EXCLUSIVE] Vice owes nearly $10 million to tech consultancy Wipro, a new court filing alleges, as multiple vendors chase fees from the troubled media giant. From me and the businessinsider.com/vice-owes-fti- via
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Great convo this AM about AI and regulation at #sotn23! Takeaways:
-risk based impact assessments will be key
-Congress should use NIST framework as a guide for laws
-no clear partisan lines on AI yet
-right now AI has to follow laws on the books
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ESPN scoop -- ESPN has held conversations with leagues and media partners about building a feature that would link ESPN digital users directly to live sports games ... including those that air on other companies' streaming services.
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NEW: acquires and Lineup Systems
- First two acquisitions since it was acquired by Cuadrilla Capital last year
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Scoop: Jonathan Capehart quits WaPo editorial board, leaving no people of color left on board
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The interest from Americans in stories about the war in Ukraine mirrors the progress on the ground, where Russian forces continue to bombard the eastern part of the country, but to no clear end.
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Jonathan Capehart quit The Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics, leaving the paper with an all-white editorial board, scoops
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Rupert Murdoch admits Fox News hosts peddled election lies
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NEW: board has hired Bruce Dixon & Hozefa Lokhandwala — 2 longtime Vice execs — as co-CEOs, effective immediately
— Dixon has been CFO at Vice since 2021 and was previously CFO of VICE Studios
— Lokhandwala has been Chief Strategy Officer at Vice since October 2018… Show more
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Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc to depart axios.com/2023/02/24/vic
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⚡️ NEW: joined the podcast with .
They discussed his life and the journey that led him to co-founding .
🎧 Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pol
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Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc to depart
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Ozy CEO arrested after former exec pleads guilty to fraud
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The Information is launching a new subscription product for data and charts
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It’s been exactly 1 yr since ’s Truth Social launched. Here’s where we’re at:
- Trump has 4.9M followers
- App’s parent company still under investigation
- Unclear if Trump commits to exclusively using Truth ahead of 2024 axios.com/newsletters/ax #axiosmediatrends
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Injection attacks, foreign meddling, and more:
Chatbots trigger next misinformation nightmare
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Quality of life on the internet is coming at a higher price
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To date, Candle has focused mostly on acquiring production studios — this is the first entity it's looking to build entirely on its own.
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Exclusive: @candlemedia has tapped ABC News vet @jamesgoldston to lead a new in-house nonfiction and documentary studio
More on @axios:
axios.com/2023/02/21/can
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Exclusive: has tapped ABC News vet to lead a new in-house nonfiction and documentary studio
More on :
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Yep.
Chatbots trigger next misinformation nightmare axios.com/2023/02/21/cha by via
ChatGPT etc "don't have a clear sense of the boundary between fact & fiction."
"...bad actors leveraging tools to spread false narratives quickly and at scale."
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🚨NEW in AM: has given exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from 1/6
Carlson producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove
📺 Excerpts begin in coming weeks
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lol AP got around Microsoft no-commenting them on Bing by asking Bing
apnews.com/article/techno
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Scoop: Nashville will bid on hosting 2028 political conventions
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. speaks on his experience using the metaverse, NFTs and Web3: "It's already working in our small little niche ecosystem. Of course it's small because it's brand new, and what it will become will become the norm...a large part of who we are, our identity, is digital."
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WATCH: and host a conversation about the future of the music industry in today's digital world, featuring and co-founder
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News: YouTube’s CEO is leaving after a 9-year run. Read her memo to employees here:
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down vox.com/recode/2023/2/
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New pod: It’s a mega media M&A check-in for a buyer’s market. With @sarafischer @axios. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5oypPC
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