scoop: Sony is in talks to team up with Apollo on a bid for Paramount. w/Lauren Hirsch:
nytimes.com/2024/04/18/bus…

$PARA

NEW: California news nonprofit CalMatters acquiring tech news nonprofit The Markup axios.com/2024/04/18/cal…

No media reporter covers their own organization more scrupulously and aggressively as David Folkenflik, in my opinion.

I talked to Uri Berliner about his decision to resign.

He said he decided to quit earlier this week after getting email from C.E.O. Katherine Maher that he said made it clear her remarks from last week were in reference to him:

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new: About 50 NPR employees sign a letter to CEO Katherine Maher and top editor Edith Chapin calling for, among other things, a public rebuke of the “factual inaccuracies and elisions” in Uri Berliner’s Free Press essay.

NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner resigns, citing chief executive’s statement on his public critique of network and her past political posts.

His letter below

Uri Berliner resigns:
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NPR suspends Uri Berliner, senior business editor who criticized network for its liberal bias:
nytimes.com/2024/04/16/bus…

.Jen Psaki: “You had an NDA…”

Fmr. National Enquirer Executive Editor Lachlan Cartwright: “Which I’m publicly breaking.”

Jen Psaki: “We all know that there can be threats and violence…”

Cartwright: “Which I’ve experienced… But this is a story of national importance.”

scoop: Instagram is pitching influencers on a program that will essentially turn them into a chatbot. it's in its early stages of testing and will rely on data like previous IG posts, DMs, comments & audio from Reels to inform the bots
nytimes.com/2024/04/15/tec… w rat king 🐀

The New York Times ended its investigation into whether staffers leaked confidential information about its Gaza war coverage without any conclusive finding wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

Breaking: I have accepted a position @NYTimes as Washington investigations editor. I'm grateful for this opportunity to work with the Washington bureau and the NYT's tremendous staff on accountability journalism. And yes, John and I are moving to D.C.

scoop — Ben Sherwood is CEO of The Daily Beast, effective immediately, and Joanna Coles is its chief content and creative officer. Story here:
nytimes.com/2024/04/15/bus…

Devastated by this — mass violence in Australia is so so rare (thankfully) nytimes.com/2024/04/13/wor…

SCOOP Puck: Former Disney TV chief Ben Sherwood and former Hearst Magazines exec Joanna Coles are raising money to acquire The Daily Beast >>>

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scoop: NPR's top editor said in a meeting with the new CEO and show hosts Wednesday that she didn't want to make Uri Berliner a 'martyr.'

nytimes.com/2024/04/11/bus…

We're told that everyone at the network is mindful of the disaster created by Juan Williams' firing in 2010.

NEW: Inside the crisis at NPR, which is seething over Uri Berliner's essay. W/Katie Robertson
nytimes.com/2024/04/11/bus…

As Jim VandeHei told The New York Times morning, artificial intelligence will “eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared in media.”
— At @Axios, we say BRING. IT. ON.
A deep dive into some of the shifts we’re making to prepare, via Katie Robertson
nytimes.com/2024/04/11/bus…

NEW: Axios’s plan to survive the rise of A.I. — doubling down on events and building $1,000/yr membership subscriptions around star reporters like Sara Fischer and Dan Primack

nytimes.com/2024/04/11/bus…

More cuts at the WSJ today. I'm told a substantial chunk of paper's video/YouTube team was laid off.