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John Klem
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Business development and strategic partnership exec executing and implementing content, revenue and software partnerships with media companies, corporations and their technology partners.
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Chinese Chatbot Phenom is a Disinformation Machine
DeepSeek’s AI chatbot advances China’s position 60 percent of the time in response to prompts about Chinese, Russian, and Iranian false claims, a NewsGuard audit finds
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January 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A New Journalism | Tomorrow's Publisher
The news industry faces a crisis in its business model, but also in its core activity of journalism. We overproduce content, cling to outdated formats and
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January 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
venturebeat.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data with Francesco Marconi
AI is transforming the newsroom, redefining how journalists gather and analyze information, and pushing the boundaries of efficiency and storytelling.
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January 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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48 AI Headlines Leading Up to Stargate
Q: What’s the upside of reading 400 AI headlines per week, an archive, and a decent memory? A: I can throw together a timeline of what I recall over the past few months… I typed this by hand and looke...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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CNN announces about 200 layoffs as it attempts to modernize business
Both CNN and NBC News are planning layoffs this week as newsrooms transition away from linear TV toward digital audiences.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Six things publishers should do now to protect themselves from AI scrapers
Paul Hood writes that music software Napster could provide important lessons for news publishers looking for AI licensing revenue.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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AI Briefing: Copyright battles bring Meta and OpenAI datasets under the microscope
Court documents raise new questions about Meta's use of copyrighted content, and how much execs knew about pirated datasets
digiday.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Inside the tug-of-war between AI and news publishers | Semafor
The News Media Alliance is gearing up for legal action against a major artificial intelligence company.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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www.wired.com/story/ai-cop...
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.
www.wired.com
December 30, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Status Check: The 18 Winners and Losers of 2024

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The 18 Winners and Losers of 2024
Amidst the challenges brought by 2024, new leaders emerged across the media industry, while others saw their standing wane.
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December 24, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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The Year Creators Took Over
The attention economy has dominated the Internet for more than a decade now, but never before have its protagonists felt so central to American life—or had such direct access to the levers of power.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...
Media Moguls Set the Stage for Deal Mania
Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery are rearranging their businesses for mergers and acquisitions. Experts say the next year could transform the media industry.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
The most dominant algorithms aren’t the ones choosing what songs Spotify serves you.
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December 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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The world’s most popular airline routes are almost all in the Asia-Pacific region
Only one trip in the top 10 lands in North America....
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December 18, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Completing merger, ‘McClatchy Media’ forms with lifestyle brands and greater reach
McClatchy Media Company boasts a collective audience of more than 100 million unique visitors a month.
www.miamiherald.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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How Bluesky hopes to win over publishers (and users)
Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok have tried to keeps eyeballs glued. Bluesky is pitching publishers on trust and traffic.
digiday.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Canvas to all users
Canvas, OpenAI's text and code editor, is now available for all ChatGPT users. It also now lets people run Python code.
venturebeat.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Journalists embrace transparency about the business side
"In 2025, journalists will acknowledge that people’s skepticism toward news is fundamentally tied up in their unflattering misunderstandings about how journalists — and the organizations they work for...
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December 12, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23...
Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter
Their big promise has fizzled out.
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December 12, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24...
OpenAI has finally released Sora
OpenAI’s text-to-video tool is now widely available.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The GPT Era Is Already Ending
Something has shifted at OpenAI.
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
AI: how to stop Big Tech ripping off journalism (again)
AI models are scraping websites for data, without compensating publishers. This week’s guest Bill Gross joins Alan and Lionel to offer a novel solutio...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Three-fourths of Americans think media is biased: Pew
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults say that news organizations are biased when presenting news on social and political issues, according to a new survey. The survey from the Pew Rese…
thehill.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Toshit Panigrahi on LinkedIn: The Next Frontier: Sam Altman on the Future of A.I. and Society
As Sam Altman said at The New York Times DealBook summit, the world is approaching the need for micropayments as means for compensation to content creators…
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December 6, 2024 at 4:28 PM