Journalism
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Tucker Carlson Says He’s Responsible for JD Vance Mocking ‘Childless Cat Ladies’: ‘I’m Ashamed’ | Video
While expressing regret, he goes on to call Tim Walz “a creeper” and adds “there’s something wrong with that guy”
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Condé Nast Partners With OpenAI to Let ChatGPT Surface Work From Vanity Fair, Vogue
CEO Roger Lynch says revenue from the multiyear deal will be used to “continue to protect and invest in our journalism and creative endeavors”
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California Lawmakers Set to Scrap Legislation Requiring Big Tech to Pay for News in $172.5 Million Google Settlement | Report
The potential deal doesn’t sit well with some journalism advocates, who call it a “ratification of Google’s monopoly”
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The Hollywood Reporter Lays Off 4 Staffers, Including Executive Managing Editor Sudie Redmond
These are the latest in a series of layoffs that have seen multiple editors exit in the past two months
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Washington Post Reviews Taylor Lorenz’s Social Media After Instagram Story Labels Biden ‘War Criminal’
A spokesperson for the newspaper confirms to TheWrap that they are “aware of the alleged social media post and are looking into it”
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Tim Walz Agrees to Debate JD Vance for CBS News
“See you on October 1, JD,” the Minnesota governor wrote on social media after the network proposed four dates for the event
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Kaitlan Collins Stunned by ‘Late Show’ Audience Laughter When Colbert Calls CNN ‘Objective’: ‘Is That Supposed to Be a Laugh Line?’ | Video
It was not supposed to be a laugh line
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Trump’s Elon Musk Interview Gets More Than 95 Million Views, but Real Engagement Is Far Lower
As always, it’s important to remember that almost anything counts as a view, according to X/Twitter’s terms of service
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Donald Trump’s X Interview With Elon Musk Delayed, Owner Blames ‘Massive DDOS Attack’
“Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later,” Musk says
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White House Dodges Fox News Asking How Mad Joe Biden Is at Nancy Pelosi | Video
The press secretary repeats twice, “The president respects his good friend,” leading the conservative network’s reporter to explain that wasn’t what he’d asked
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LA Mayor Karen Bass Launches Film and TV Task Force to Slow Production Leaving for Other Cities
Efforts out of the city’s inaugural Entertainment Industry Council aim to speed up post-COVID and -strike recovery, Deputy Mayor Rachel Freeman tells TheWrap
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BuzzFeed Promotes Richard Alan Reid to Studio President
The exec has served as BuzzFeed Studios EVP since 2021
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Oliver Darcy Departs CNN to Launch Independent Media Newsletter
Status will be a nightly briefing “about what is really happening in the corridors of media power”
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Megyn Kelly Admits Tim Walz Was ‘Amazing’ at First Kamala Harris Rally — Which Made a ‘Feeling of Fear Rise Up in My Throat’ | Video
“He scares me because he actually could become the vice president and potentially the president,” the conservative SiriusXM host says
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‘Morning Joe’ Mocks Trump Theory That Biden Will Make Surprise DNC Challenge: ‘Gibbering Nonsense’ | Video
“I’m not used to Democrats looking like winners,” former Republican Joe Scarborough says
