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TCLtv+ and Bloomberg Media announce new content partnership

TCLtv+, the flagship streaming service offered by leading consumer electronics company, TCL, and Bloomberg Media, the global leader in business and financial news, have announced a joint content partnership that will bring two of its FAST channels to the TCLtv+ streaming app beginning this month.

Play-by-play and drawings on an iPad: How cable TV covers a TV-less trial

With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony.

Scripps News to partner with ProPublica to produce original investigative journalism

Scripps News, the national network owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, will partner with ProPublica to produce in-depth investigations on issues impacting people across the country. The journalism will be shown on air and across Scripps News and ProPublica digital platforms. Scripps News will also feature ProPublica reporters on local and national programming regularly to highlight the organization’s original reporting.

OpenAI just made ChatGPT cheaper and twice as fast

OpenAI has announced its new flagship model ChatGPT-4o — an AI chatbot that can see, hear and have real-time conversations.

Family is embroiled in suit over control of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade

The family that owns Block Communications Inc. (BCI), publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade, is airing some of its internal squabbling in court.  

Nebraska Public Media acquires The Reader and El Perico

In alignment with its ongoing mission to provide diverse and impactful news and information in every community, Nebraska Public Media has acquired The Reader and El Perico digital properties from Pioneer Publishing in Omaha.

AP updates guidance on generative AI standards

AP has updated its guidance on the use of generative AI in the news report to allow for some experimentation around the use of the technology in specific use cases.

Apple peels ads: Publishers are alarmed by blocking feature

Apple is readying an AI-based privacy feature in the Safari browser in its next iOS 18 software update. This capability will remove ads or other unwanted website content, reports state, according to Financial Times.

How television advertising lost its relevance

When Mondelez sought to promote a limited edition of its Oreo cookie earlier this year, it did something that would have been unthinkable not that long ago: It didn’t spend a dime advertising on TV. 

Status of Chinese citizen journalist who reported on COVID unknown on day of expected prison release

The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists.

Student newsrooms at HBCUs to receive $200,000 in boost for journalism

Ten student newsrooms at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will receive nearly $200,000 to help improve campus newsroom technology, business operations, audience engagement and reporting.

Moms and media: US mothers are major digital audio consumers

Moms’ media habits reflect a heavy lean on the smartphone, which we have observed and tracked in our research for years. The very substantial 4 hours and 4 minutes that Moms average daily online is undoubtedly a result of having a smartphone at the ready.  Another byproduct of smartphone ownership for Moms has been high social media consumption.  This year, we have 97% of Moms who currently use some type of social media, with 96% saying they have used it in the last week.  Such commitment is made possible by the constant access a smartphone provides, where waiting for anything idly has been replaced with social media scrolling.   

New York radio station suspends Rudy Giuliani and cancels his talk show

Rudy Giuliani was suspended from WABC radio on Friday and had his show canceled, according to station owner John Catsimatidis.

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