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...Developing a financial model for the use of news content to train AI will be extremely difficult, according to publishing leaders....
...News Corp in 2014 acquired Move for $950mn, a deal that chief executive Robert Thomson at the time described as an “exponential evolution” of the company’s print publishing business....
...an irked ex-member of Juniper Song’s publishing team asks her. “They marked her as their token, exotic Asian girl....
...Some shareholders want News Corp to split REA from the publishing side....
...Presumably because of their publishing schedules, both books stop in 2023, but this story by no means finished. So far, Musk appears to be a man without a plan....
...News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson said “[media’s] collective IP is under threat” given that readers might no longer use news websites and instead find information through AI-generated answers....
...Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History, by Ben Mezrich, Pan Macmillan £22/Grand Central Publishing $30, 352 pages Hannah Murphy is an FT technology correspondent...
Documentary follows Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov’s fight to keep publishing in the face of mounting threats
...Russian military reforms gradually unveiled since late 2022 indicate a “substantial” increase in troops on Nato’s eastern flank, Rosin said ahead of his agency publishing its annual report on Tuesday....
...One imperfect but useful comparison is with the New York Times, which is mostly a pure-play newspaper business, without News Corp’s exposure to real estate advertising, Australian pay-TV and book publishing...
...Arrival announced it would merge with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, another blank cheque company. Arrival may survive to commercialise its delivery van....
...Reputations in publishing are built and destroyed, constantly, online.”...
...Rachel Corp, chief executive of TV news group ITN, wrote to ministers in June calling on them to help maintain standards and protect the integrity of election reporting....
...On behalf of 17 music publishers including Sony Music Group and Universal Music Publishing Group, the National Music Publishers’ Association filed a suit in the federal district court of Nashville alleging...
...plant in Germany (FT) Hong Kong approves first retail cryptocurrency exchanges (Nikkei Asia) China’s Ant Group swaps stake in India’s Paytm for debt (FT) Indonesia startup Storial works to shake up book publishing...
...Similar maths involving other parts of News Corp — including HarperCollins book publishing and Australia-traded digital property listings business REA — produce a mammoth theoretical valuation....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...But lawyers for Fox Corp disputed the billionaire’s influence over Fox News’ actual coverage....
...Diller said on Wednesday that he would work alongside News Corp and German publishing house Axel Springer in trying to protect their journalism from the threat....
...Sunak owns four properties: a family home and apartment in Kensington, a large manor house in Yorkshire with heated swimming pool, and an apartment in Santa Monica, California....
...Several journalists in Guatemala said they felt they had to be careful before publishing stories....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...The City of London Corporation — which governs the area around London’s financial district — has been publishing an assessment of the competitiveness of major financial centres for three years....
...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
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