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From the memo: “Growing audience by producing more content isn’t as effective as it once was. Search traffic is under pressure, and platforms are increasingly keeping user experiences to themselves instead of sending them back to us. Our current structure was built for a different media landscape.” —SC
“John Lewis is launching an online chatshow and social media studio to help make itself and its products more visible to chatbots and more prominent in AI search results. The department store chain’s Gift List ‘vodcast’ hosted by the TV presenter Angela Scanlon will air on YouTube with clips disseminated via other social media channels and comes after the success of its sister chain Waitrose’s Dish podcast.” —SC
“O’Neal may be gone, but many of the voices he elevated and the tensions created by his effort to remake the opinion pages remain ever-present. Meanwhile, questions remain about how the section plans to handle the ordered reinstatement of columnist Karen Attiah—and about whether new leadership will continue the broader ideological shift to the right directed by owner Jeff Bezos.” —SC
“Following publication of this story, a source familiar with the matter told FOS that The Athletic is not moving forward with Kalshi on a sports betting or prediction-market partnership. Conversations between The Athletic and Kalshi ‘evolved over time,’ the source says. The Athletic is still in talks about potential advertising or ‘other commercial opportunities’ with Kalshi.” —SC
“Bartiromo’s arrival at Fox in 2014 was meant to put other news organizations on notice that the company was serious about getting into deeper coverage of the financial markets. At the time, Baritromo said her intent was to have “dealmakers” on the show who were intimately involved with the headlines of the day….Since that time, however, Bartiromo has appeared to revel in politics, and some of her on-air remarks during Fox shows have spurred speculation about why a top-tier business journalist was going down rabbit holes and bringing up conspiracy theories.” —SC
“Dimoldenberg began Chicken Shop Date as a column when she was 17. The filmed series launched on YouTube in 2014 and has since grown into one of the internet’s most distinctive and celebrated interview formats, with Dimoldenberg ‘dating’ stars across music, film, television and sport.” —SC
“The experience is designed for the different ways our audience fits our journalism into their lives. Whether that’s sitting down with a long read, watching a video between meetings, or listening while they’re commuting or working out.” (Read more about recent changes at Business Insider here.) —SC
“Together the two AI bots represented almost two-thirds — 63% — of sessions generated by the 72 AI-related bots identified over the year by 51Degrees. The research was confined to AI-related bots so did not include the main Google bot used to generate search engine results.” —SC
In his order Wednesday, Arkansas federal judge Lee Rudofsky “denied Entergy’s request for a temporary restraining order against the Democrat-Gazette and other defendants. A court filing showed he plans to set a briefing schedule on Entergy’s request for a preliminary injunction in the case at a later date.” —SC
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