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Yekaterinburg (Russia) (AFP) - US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door espionage trial in Russia began Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested on charges that he, his newspaper and the White House reject as false and baseless. Hours after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was brought into court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Washington said it was doing everything it could to secure his release. A senior Russian diplomat urged the United States to "seriously consider the signals" Moscow had sent its way over a possible swap deal. Gershkovich, 32, became the first Western journ...
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New York (AFP) - News Corp on Wednesday announced a deal to let ChatGPT-maker OpenAI use content from its publications in artificial intelligence products. OpenAI will get access to current and archived content from News Corp properties including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and The New York Post, according to a joint release. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Wall Street Journal cited sources close to the company as saying it was valued at more than $250 million over five years and included credits for News Corp using OpenAI technology. Authors, artist...
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Washington (AFP) - In the first ever criminal trial of a US president, television network coverage has been as divided as the watching nation. For viewers tuning into Fox News, the case against Donald Trump is, according to the conservative broadcaster's guests and hosts, "completely political" and as credible as a "Potemkin village." The prosecution's star witness Michael Cohen is "shady" and "notorious." "I can't imagine that any competent lawyer at this point would not be embarrassed by what has happened in this courtroom," conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley told Fox on Monday. "This is an...
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New York (AFP) - The wife of US writer Paul Auster, who died due to lung cancer complications, said Thursday that her family was "robbed" of "dignity" after a friend quickly confirmed his death to media outlets. The New York Times, citing a friend of the couple, published a story of Auster's passing hours after his death on Tuesday, with other outlets following suit with similar reports. "I was naive, but I had imagined that I would be the person to announce the death of my husband," Siri Hustvedt, an esteemed novelist, wrote on Instagram. "He died with us, his family, around him on April 30,...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The Los Angeles Times said Tuesday it laying off more than a fifth of its journalists, in another example of how news media in the United States and around the world are struggling to cope with the disruptions of the internet age. The announcement came as staff at the Conde Nast group, which publishes Vanity Fair and Vogue, took strike action over looming job cuts, and as belt-tightening ripples through several major titles. The Los Angeles Times, which is bleeding cash, said it will eliminate at least 115 newsroom positions as it seeks to right its listing balance sheet. "...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Unionized journalists at the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday for the first time in the paper's 142-year history, after management said it planned significant job cuts to help plug a gaping financial hole. Scores of employees gathered at a park in downtown Los Angeles to protest what they said were "obscene and unsustainable" contract changes being pushed on staff at the storied outlet in America's second-biggest city. Others based in California state capital Sacramento and in Washington also downed pens, labor leaders said. "The changes to our contract that man...
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Paris (AFP) - The number of journalists killed in the line of duty fell this year, despite reporter deaths in Gaza in the past two months, media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said Thursday. In the first 11 months of 2023, 45 journalists were killed carrying out their work, down from 61 last year, according to the annual report by RSF. It was the smallest number since 33 died in 2002, largely due to a major drop in Latin America. While some 63 journalists have been killed in the Middle East since the October 7 start of fighting between Israel and Islamist group Hamas, only 17 of th...
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New York (AFP) - With a prolific musical output, a remarkably bankable tour and a name that's headline catnip, it's no surprise that Time Magazine has declared 2023 the Year of Taylor Swift. In its annual issue honoring a Person of the Year -- a nearly century-old designation whose recipients include Volodymyr Zelensky, Martin Luther King Jr. and Greta Thunberg -- the magazine called music's reigning deity a "rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story." Nearly two decades into her career the 33-year-old's star simply keeps rising: Swift is smashing industry records, and her c...
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Washington (AFP) - Fox News announced Monday its replacement for ousted primetime host Tucker Carlson will be Jesse Watters, an equally provocative conservative commentator whose skewering of the left has gained him a large following. The move was part of a shake-up at the cable news behemoth nine weeks after it parted ways with pugnacious star Carlson following Fox's $787 million payout to settle a defamation case brought by an election technology company. Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News, which largely backed Trump before and during his term in office, has recently had rockier relations with th...
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New York (AFP) - Named Friday as Elon Musk's successor as Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino is a respected media and advertising executive considered a visionary by some. Yaccarino left her job as head of advertising at NBCUniversal, where she worked for 12 years. Born into a family with Italian roots, Yaccarino has spent her career in television, 20 years of it with the Time Warner group that has since become known as Warner Brothers Discovery. Yaccarino said in a 2021 episode of the Great Minds podcast that she fell in love with television shows as a child and originally thought she would get int...
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