PressPad, which arranged housing for interns in London by asking established journalists to offer up their spare rooms, starting in 2018, is shutting down (Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab)

niemanlab.org/2024/04/pressp…
mediagazer.com/240416/p1#a240…

Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, its set of ML tools for identifying toxic comments, to help rank posts based on seven new attributes, including nuance (Billy Perrigo / TIME)

time.com/6966990/ai-goo…
mediagazer.com/240415/p16#a24…

Letter: X's lawyers tell Brazil's Supreme Court that the social media platform will comply with every ruling issued by the court or Brazil's top electoral court (Ricardo Brito / Reuters)

reuters.com/legal/transact…
mediagazer.com/240415/p15#a24…

Russia's Ministry of Justice labels BBC Russian correspondent Ilya Barabanov and science reporter Asya Kazantseva as 'foreign agents'; both now live abroad (laurence peter / BBC)

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
mediagazer.com/240415/p14#a24…

Major South African outlet The Daily Maverick takes down its site for a day to alert readers to ad revenue, grant funding, and philanthropic support 'drying up' (@charlottetobitt / Press Gazette)

pressgazette.co.uk/news/leading-s…
mediagazer.com/240415/p13#a24…

Rust movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez is sentenced to 18 months in prison in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (Winston Cho / Hollywood Reporter)

hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n…
mediagazer.com/240415/p12#a24…

Slack message: NYT's probe into whether staff leaked confidential information about its Gaza war coverage ended without any conclusive findings (Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal)

wsj.com/business/media…
mediagazer.com/240415/p11#a24…

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing 'Creator AI' chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's 'voice' (New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/04/15/tec…
mediagazer.com/240415/p10#a24…

Sources: Disney plans old-style TV channels within Disney+, with a continuous, scheduled stream of shows that are focused on certain genres like Star Wars (Sahil Patel / The Information)

theinformation.com/articles/to-ke…
mediagazer.com/240415/p8#a240…

Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer (@benmullin / New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/04/15/bus…
mediagazer.com/240415/p7#a240…

A look at the negotiations to provide media access to Trump's trial; the state court system hired ex-journalist Al Baker to prepare for the historic trial (Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair)

vanityfair.com/news/trump-tri…
mediagazer.com/240415/p6#a240…

Taylor Swift's music returning to TikTok highlights her power over UMG and its CEO Lucian Grainge, who must now hope other music groups join his TikTok fight (Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
mediagazer.com/240415/p5#a240…

Ofcom Chair Michael Grade says TV has become more 'exploitative and cruel', which makes him 'mad', and worries that the UK public are now used as performers (richard brooks / The Guardian)

theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…
mediagazer.com/240415/p4#a240…

As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency (Nicole Sperling / New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…
mediagazer.com/240415/p3#a240…

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Don Wright, who drew cartoons for The Miami News and The Palm Beach Post, died on March 24 at age 90 (Sam Roberts / New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/04/13/bus…
mediagazer.com/240415/p2#a240…

Q&A with Craig Erwich, president of Disney Television Group, on determining what shows air where, from Hulu to ABC, the continued importance of ABC, and more (@tvmojoe / Vulture)

vulture.com/article/hulu-a…
mediagazer.com/240415/p1#a240…

The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith / Semafor)

semafor.com/newsletter/04/…
mediagazer.com/240414/p5#a240…

Streaming TV companies' reluctance to share their data with third-party audience measurement firms is making it difficult for brands to buy ads across platforms (Mike Shields / Next in Media)

mikeshields.substack.com/p/tv-loves-to-…
mediagazer.com/240414/p4#a240…

The AP, ABC, Fox, and other news orgs issue a joint statement urging President Biden and former President Trump to do televised debates ahead of the election (Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…
mediagazer.com/240414/p3#a240…

UK comedian Joe Lycett discloses that he planted four fake stories in the UK media, including the Mail, the Sun, BBC News, ITV News, Sky News and Independent (Nad N.Badshah / The Guardian)

theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…
mediagazer.com/240414/p2#a240…