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Screenshot Fox News is drawing heat from media industry observers for getting duped by an AI-generated video and then failing to take sufficient accountability for the error. In a piece published Friday to Foxnews.com, writer Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi posted about SNAP beneficiaries threatening to loot stores amid the government shutdown. The piece, originally headlined SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown, quoted Black women claiming to be SNAP recipients complaining about the cutoff of benefits due to the shutdown.

Called The Tea, Spilled by Morning Joe, the revamped newsletter for the popular morning show on the network that will soon be called MS NOW (the name change is official on November 15, the network says) took its inspiration from the world of print magazines. It's designed to be part of a larger flywheel to grow and connect with the show's audience.

Which raises a pressing question: Can online magazines survive when ads have plateaued and digital subscriptions still don't cover the cost of producing quality journalism? Maybe the answer is ... AI. Condé has content and data licensing deals with OpenAI, Perplexity and Amazon. But those deals could have steep half-lives, especially when a publisher's value is primarily tied to its library of content.

Posted total net revenue of $180.3 million, a decline of 11.5% year-over-year Generated digital revenue of $39.0 million, a decrease of 2.6% year-over-year But there is nuance in those metrics also, related to the departure of The Dan Bongino Show, an extraordinarily podcast. (Bongino discontinued the podcast when he was recruited as Director of the FBI.) Bongino's departure registers on the finance sheet as a $6.9 million negative impact.

It seems like you have to be a little bit more online or up to date with how fast culture moves just to determine, yes, this is a 'safe brand' - a brand that I'm willing to work with versus a brand that's [in] a little bit of hot water right now,

The problem was: I had never given an interview to The Times. Yet here was a screenshot of the article along with a quote from "me" claiming that Mamdani's platform "doesn't add up." That's the opposite of what I believe and have said dozens of times publicly, including on national television and in this magazine. Yet, here was a major international media outlet, one of the most famous and oldest newspapers in the world, publishing a story stating that I had suddenly reversed myself.

When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of The Post.

It's a perfect recipe for complacency at a time when luxury brands are laser-focused on appealing to wealthy consumers. But Sarah Ball, who took over as editor-in-chief of WSJ. in the summer of 2023, succeeding longtime editor Kristina O'Neill, said she wants to broaden the definition of who her reader is. The magazine is profiling more Millennial and Gen-Z movers and shakers, like actress Sydney Sweeney, "Call Her Daddy" podcast host Alex Cooper and TikTokker extraordinaire Alix Earle.

I'm flattered by all the press and everything like that, but I'm in a multi-year contract with Fox. So I don't know where everything's going. I'm signed on to Fox, very happy at Fox. And, you know, we'll see what happens at the end of that, he said.

The report, "News Integrity in AI Assistants," is based on a study involving 22 public service media organizations in 18 countries to assess how four common AI assistants - OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini, and Perplexity - answer questions about news and current affairs. Each organization asked a set of 30 news-related questions (e.g., "Who is the pope?" " Can Trump run for a third term?" " Did Elon Musk do a Nazi salute?"). More than 2,700 AI-generated responses were then assessed by journalists against five criteria: accuracy, sourcing, distinguishing opinion from fact, editorialization, and context.

On CNN's NewsNight, right-wing commentator Ryan Girdusky told Hasan, I hope your beeper doesn't go off, as Hasan expressed support for Palestinians. The comment from Girdusky followed an op by Israel where they planted explosives inside of beepers and walkie-talkies being used by the terror group Hezbollah.

Sixty years later, golf fans of a different variety watched as a new all-star collection of golfers came together to maximize exposure and compete for a large prize. They were not players but influencers, competing in Barstool's "Internet Invitational " - a six-part, hours-long bonanza featuring 48 golfers competing for the chance at $1 million. Their medium of choice was YouTube, but the thrust of their video wasn't entirely counting birdies and bogeys.

Wikipedia launched on January 15, 2001, and by 2006 was being roundly mocked on The Colbert Report as a disinformation train primed for derailment by the meddling demons of human nature - but the "pathological optimist" in Wales refused to concede that his venture, and by extension the entire concept, was doomed. His instincts were, to say the least, solid. The English Wikipedia is now roughly 93 times bigger than Encyclopædia Britannica, the shelf-warping print leviathan that fascinated him as a child.

"I just live in this constant state of imposter syndrome," Virgin media TV presenter, author and influencer Eric Roberts says. "And I have done for the last couple of years. I'm pinching myself constantly."

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Stewart, when asked about going on Rogan's show, said he enjoyed his time on The Joe Rogan Experience and found Rogan to be a curious comic and interesting interviewer. In fairness, he's had people on who are kind of Nazi curious. That's not good, Remnick said. Stewart immediately rejected the idea Rogan or anyone else should avoid talking to someone because of their political or social views.

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The disclosure followed public overtures from Paramount, which reportedly was willing to pay as much as $24 per share, or around $60 billion total, for the publicly traded media company. WarnerBros. Discovery rejected that offer as too low, and hopes to drum up additional interest by publicly putting itself up for sale. Any potential deal, regardless of the ultimate identity of the winning bidder, will almost inevitably reshape the streaming landscape, which in turn could have major consequences for consumers.

The arrangement works like this: Major corporations contribute undisclosed sums to the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit handling fundraising for the 90,000-square-foot ballroom annex. In return, donors reportedly receive White House dinner invitations and potential name inscriptions inside the building, tangible symbols of access to an administration their news divisions scrutinize daily. This isn't merely optics. It's a structural conflict that undermines the premise of independent journalism.

In fact, a recent report on the use of AI in news media from the Reuters Institute showed a pretty clear pattern of audiences' trust declining the more AI was used in the journalistic process. Only 12% of people were comfortable with fully AI-generated content, increasing to 21% for mostly AI, 43% for mostly human, and a respectable (but, notably, not amazing) 62% for fully human content.

Individuals trying to support themselves via subscriptions are as dependent on the whims of the marketplace as those working for large corporations, and it's not just the lack of health care and 401ks that make the career of a patron-supported creator precarious - it's the rawness and immediacy of the relationship.

For years, the Department of Defense - one of the most important, scrutinized and reported-on departments in our government - has been covered extensively by reporters from inside the Pentagon. This included journalists from some of the most respected and accomplished news outlets in the business, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN, just to name a few.

Perhaps as soon as next week, upwards of 2,000 workers at CBS, Paramount Pictures, Pluto, Paramount+, and iconic cable networks such as MTV and Comedy Central will be told that they no longer have jobs. A letter will go out from Paramount CEO David Ellison or one of his underlings expressing sadness over this turn of events and likely lamenting that these layoffs were unavoidable, the result of "radical shifts in the entertainment industry" that necessitated dramatic cost reductions.

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