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Joy Reid to Launch YouTube Podcast as First Move Post-MSNBC
The ex-cable news host will start her new YouTube show in June
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Axios CEO Warns AI Will ‘Reorder Society’
Jim VandeHei says he is concerned lawmakers are paying “very little attention” to the rise of artificial intelligence
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Elon Musk Leaves Trump’s DC as a ‘Victim of His Own Expectation-Setting,’ NY Times’ Billionaire Reporter Says | Video
“He clearly is at least attuned to the idea that he’s been overextended on his political adventures,” Teddy Schleifer tells MSNBC
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Bob Pittman on 50 Years in Media and What He’s Not Saying About the Future
Office With a View: The CEO of iHeart Media, the co-founder of MTV and former top AOL-Time Warner exec also says he loves ad-supported audio podcasts because it’s just “radio on demand”
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Lawrence O’Donnell Toasts Trump’s ‘Worldwide Humiliation’ Over Tariffs: ‘Those Proposals Were Constitutionally Insane’ | Video
“It’s over. The Trump tariff madness ends now,” the MSNBC host says
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New York Times Strikes AI Licensing Deal With Amazon
NYT content will be shared via Alexa and will also be used to train Amazon’s AI models
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Trump Suffered ‘Mental Anguish and Confusion’ From ‘60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview, Lawyers Claim in Bid to Deny Dismissal
The president’s attorneys say the interview at the heart of the lawsuit is not protected by the First Amendment
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Business Insider Lays Off 21% of Staff
“There’s a huge opportunity for companies who harness AI first,” CEO Barbara Peng says in a memo to staff
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The Disinformation Deluge Requires Experts to Step Up as ‘Truth Vigilantes’
The right-wing tilt of online voices favors “just asking questions” quacks and self-promoters. But Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone sees ways to break through
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Trump Shuts Down Paramount’s $15 Million Offer to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit | Report
The president is asking for $25 million and an apology from CBS News, Wall Street Journal reports
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FCC Commissioner Labels Trump Push to Chill Speech an ‘Administration-Wide Effort’
Anna M. Gomez kicked off a “First Amendment tour” designed to promote free speech, while pushing back against the FCC’s “sham investigations”
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Federal Judge Refuses to Block Trump Ouster of US Copyright Office Head
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly rules that Shira Perlmutter has not proven that being fired will cause her “irreparable harm”
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No Filter: Piers Morgan Sounds Off on Trump, Biden, CNN’s ‘Sneering,’ and Meghan Markle
“I think a lot of journalists in mainstream news in America knew a lot more about Biden’s real cognitive and physical impairment than they were saying on air or in print. And shame on them,” the media veteran-turned-YouTube star tells TheWrap
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‘Morning Joe’ Faintly Praises Trump for Putin Pushback, but Warns: ‘They’re Trying to Goad Him’ | Video
“Vladimir Putin plays by his own rules on his own timeline, and he spends as much time as he can trying to sucker American presidents,” host Joe Scarborough says