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Puck is stepping into the sports arena. The buzzy digital subscription publication that offers readers an inside look into the media, technology and politics sectors — and the ego-obsessed titans who lead them — told CNN on Monday it had hired veteran journalist John Ourand to lead a new sports vertical, marking the outlet’s first foray into the sprawling and lucrative business powering leagues and athletes.

Constant data allows stations to iterate on the fly on their streaming and FAST channels, executives from CBS News & Stations, Fox Television Stations and Gray Television told a NewsTECHForum audience last week.

A founding editor of Quarta, he will build a small team in the newsroom to experiment with generative AI tools and prototype ideas. He will help design training programs for curious journalists and will partner with colleagues across the company to determine where to incorporate generative AI tools into our publishing tools and digital products.

Altice USA is in talks to sell the financial news streaming service Cheddar News to Los Angeles-based private equity firm Regent LP, according to people familiar with the matter. No deal is assured and discussions around structure are still fluid, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private.

Digital news startups and struggling newspapers can make excellent partners with local TV stations that still have the power and platforms to engage like no other media.

Britta Merwin, a Fox Weather meteorologist and co-host of its morning block, says the network’s success so far stems from its unique distribution strategy. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new media company has begun building its base of paying subscribers as it moves toward launch, its chief executive told Reuters. “We’ve opened our site for membership pre-sales,” said Neil Patel, co-founder and CEO of the new venture. “Once we are comfortable that all of the systems are running well, launch and brand release will follow.” Patel said those paying subscribers will have access to members-only content and behind-the-scenes footage. He declined to comment on the pricing.

The tech company announced earlier this year it would be slashing 20% of its workforce by 2024.

Johnny Green, president and GM of CBS-owned WCBS New York, and Sarah Burke, the station’s VP and news director, say its community-focused reporters are gaining traction — and trust — in the neighborhoods where they’ve been embedded, a strength to draw on in a fractious news year ahead. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

The company’s union objected, noting that journalists covering climate change, policy and tech are among those affected.

Former Fox News star turned social media vlogger Tucker Carlson was quietly removed from the board of the media organization he co-founded in 2011 — The Daily Caller — where he’d held a chair position for more than a decade, according to a previously unreported tax filing. Carlson seems to have disappeared from the board of The Daily Caller News Foundation sometime in 2022, according to tax documents that the group recently filed with the state of New Mexico.

The agreement would see Canadian news continue to be shared on Google’s platforms in return for the company making annual payments to CBC News and Radio-Canada in the range of $100 million, a source with knowledge of the negotiations said. The federal government and Google agreed on the regulatory framework earlier this week, a government source familiar with the talks said.

At a time when competition between streaming and broadcasting often drives a wedge between networks and their affiliates, the year-old NBC News Daily appears to be an unusual example of cooperation. The one-hour newscast, designed to replace the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives when it moved from NBC to Peacock in 2022, appears on both the NBC News Now streaming channel and all of NBC’s affiliates and ratings are rising.

Forget about Facebook, Twitter, and Snap when it comes to around 60% of the average U.S. citizen getting their news — at times — from now mainstream social media platforms. More alarming to some are younger news consumers flocking to newer fringe social media sites. Should we be upset that 32% of 18-29-year-olds now “regularly” get their news from TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center?

How WDIV Detroit’s investigation into an underwater oil pipeline became a broadcasting and digital event is the result of quality content delivered where people want to be served.

A new report finds 30% of U.S. adults say they regularly get news from the Meta-owned site. YouTube comes in a close second with 26%, according to the analysis published by Pew Research Center on Wednesday.

As social media and phones grow to dominate news coverage, people are consuming just as much news as ever.

The NBC News streaming service will simulcast Sky News Today with Wilfred Frost on weekday mornings at 5 a.m. ET, an expansion into the early morning hours. The program is the first time that a Sky News program will be simulcast on the streaming service, and will be the first NBC News Now show to originate from outside the U.S. (it will be based at Sky News’ London headquarters).

Lester Holt may be turning up more frequently in David Muir‘s rear-view mirror. During Muir’s tenure at World News Tonight, the ABC broadcast has done something most TV programs cannot do in the streaming era: Add new linear viewers. Yet in recent weeks one of the evening-news program’s competitors has nibbled at its lead in a crucial category of viewer.

A petition additionally asks news outlets to bargain over the technology with workers outside of contract negotiations and to commit to never replacing a human with an AI tool.

News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.

Google cut dozens of jobs in its news division this week, downsizing at a particularly sensitive time for online platforms and publishers. An estimated 40 to 45 workers in Google News have lost their jobs, according to an Alphabet Workers Union spokesperson, who didn’t know the exact number.

Brooke Singman’s star is rising at Fox News Digital — and it’s causing some envy inside the Murdoch empire.

The third Republican presidential debate is set for Nov. 8 in Miami. NBC News, which will produce the debate for its linear TV, streaming and digital platforms, takes over from Fox News and Fox Business, which hosted the first two Republican primary debates. The third tangle between GOP candidates organized by the Republican National Committee will be held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from 8 to 10 p.m. on Nov. 8.

Deepfake news segments that appear to be delivered by top journalists and TV networks are going viral across the internet. It’s an inflection point for manipulated media that experts see as troubling just a year out from an historic election.

CNN Chief Executive Mark Thompson told staff that the network needs to step up its digital game, saying conventional TV “can no longer define us,” and said its journalists shouldn’t be distracted by debates about balance or false equivalency. Speaking to employees in a video message on Monday, his first official day at CNN, Thompson said he would draw on his earlier experience as CEO of the New York Times to modernize the network.

Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL Raleigh, N.C., launched a news streaming channel so popular out of the gate that the company carried it over to linear TV and radio simulcasts. A quick turn to profitability followed.

Who’s doing it better — Kristen Welker or Jake Tapper? The two journalists, one the new moderator of NBC News’ Meet The Press, the other the anchor of the weekday The Lead and a co-anchor of State of the Union at CNN, aren’t typically pitted against one another. But there they were on a recent Thursday afternoon around 4:30 p.m., duking it out for the future of their medium.