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Rebuild Local News and Syracuse University are launching the Local News Research Hub, a curated, searchable database for data-driven research on local news (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/heres-a-new-database-for-local-news-research-from-syracuse-university-and-rebuild-local-news/
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A look at the WHCA's efforts to maintain diplomacy with President Trump, as White House journalists and the WHCA continue to endure anti-press machinations (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/restraint-fecklessness-white-house-correspondents-association-whca-diplomacy-ties-donald-trump.php
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The Economist is testing parallel versions of marketing and B2B sales content, one optimized for humans and another clearly structured, Q&A-style for AI agents (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-economist-prepares-for-a-two-track-internet-one-for-humans-and-one-for-ai-agents/
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Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of "time and money", facing a backlash, and more (Jake Coyle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon-steven-soderbergh-ai-cannes-documentary-7794a4344ed455cae4c5780fa6610860
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Sources: CBS staff at 60 Minutes expect "massive changes" and layoffs after the current season ends, but say there's no plan to overhaul its format or mission (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/16/cbs-bari-weiss-60-minutes
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A group of digital media veterans led by former Pitchfork and Spin EIC Puja Patel launch Totei, a weekly online magazine dedicated to "craft and craftsmanship" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/17/2026/new-arts-magazine-totei-to-focus-on-the-creative-process
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A look at changes to Hungary's media since Viktor Orban's loss: more opposition voices and the most popular TV channel canceled its flagship news broadcast (Anita Komuves/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/orbans-media-empire-crumbles-after-hungary-election-defeat-2026-05-15/
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An investigation reveals the South Florida Standard is one of 17 AI-driven news sites created by online reputation management firm The Discoverability Company (Kate Payne/The Florida Trib)
https://floridatrib.org/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/
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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/931884/youtube-likeness-detection-ai-deepfake-expansion-all-adults
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Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/media/npr-podcast-ramtin-arablouei-throughline.html
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The AP confirms it is laying off an unspecified number of US-based journalists today; News Media Guild: of 120 journalists offered buyouts, around 40 took them (Jocelyn Noveck/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-ap-layoffs-3906d6f2c16621746515adc51a04b829
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ABC News seems to have taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline; the URL redirects to ABC News' politics vertical (Nathaniel Rakich/@baseballot)
https://x.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208
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ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/
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A New York judge overseeing the third trial over a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein declares a mistrial after the jury said it was deadlocked (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/judge-grants-harvey-weinsteins-bid-for-mistrial-1236597083/
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The Guardian says it is "concerned" after Nigel Farage posted the press credentials of a Guardian photographer who had taken his picture (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-photographer-exposed-to-risk-after-farage-shares-press-card-picture/
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Sources: Paramount's WBD deal to absorb HBO Max may breach its joint venture agreement with Comcast to avoid direct streaming competition in European markets (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/paramount-warner-takeover-skyshowtime-comcast-1236905695/
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A look at neighborhood newsletters in NY and elsewhere, which tend to be solo operations with small-scale followings, but point to a desire for local media (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/your-friendly-neighborhood-newsletter
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When asked what it means to be a good news consumer, 20% of US adults mention being discerning, 17% following the news, 13% getting news from quality sources (Elisa Shearer/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/05/14/what-americans-think-it-takes-to-be-a-good-news-consumer/
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A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking video and audio clips of him (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/trademark-yourself-matthew-mcconaughey-legal-strategy-ai-taylor-swift-1236747220/
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Sistrix: health and tech are the topics most vulnerable to losing clicks to Google's AI Overviews; Ipsos iris says Healthline's audience fell 48% YoY in March (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/ai-overviews-publisher-traffic/
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Q&A with Baltimore Banner CEO Bob Cohn, who says the staff of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's newsroom fell from 100 to 58 and the Banner had $18M in 2025 revenue (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-baltimore-banner-ceo-on-progress
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Indiegraf acquires News Revenue Hub's donation management tool RevEngine, its third acquisition in three months after Hearken and Stylebot (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/indiegraf-newsroom-acquires-revengine-hearken-stylebot/
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Sources: Paramount is weighing expanding its podcast business into distribution and has had talks with Katie Miller, the Paragon Collective, and Jubilee Media (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/14/paramount-katie-miller-podcast-business
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Israel threatens to sue the NYT for defamation over the article on sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners but the legal viability of the lawsuit is in doubt (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-sue-new-york-times-sexual-abuse-palestinian-prisoners
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BET partners with microdrama company aTwist, formerly known as Microco, to develop and distribute the latter's series across linear and digital platforms (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bet-gets-into-microdrama-business-new-atwist-partnership-1236595002/
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Q&A with Byron Allen on his plan to place BuzzFeed and HuffPost content on his AVOD service, Local Now, and his plan to buy Starz, in which he has an 11% stake (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/byron-allen-buzzfeed-starz-streaming-1236595447/
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Byron Allen says he plans to add new shows and user-generated and licensed content to the BuzzFeed app: "This world really appreciates streaming and free" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-13/byron-allen-wants-to-turn-buzzfeed-into-a-free-tv-super-app
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TrueShort, which makes vertical AI-generated movies broken into one- to three-minute episodes, raised a $12M seed led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/khosla-ventures-jeffrey-katzenberg-backing-trueshort-ai-vertical-film-app-2026-5
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Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech for video podcasts later in 2026, helping creators distribute podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/spotify-adopting-apples-new-video-podcast-tech-for-easier-cross-platform-publishing/
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An analysis of the top 100 trending TikTok videos under #mentalhealthtips finds 52 contain misinformation, including misused language and quick-fix methods (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/31/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds
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