Update: OpenAI has completed a handful of publishing deals: Axel Springer’s three-year pact, for both training and display, is worth at least $25 million to $30 million over three years and the FT's deal is worth $5 million to $10 million a year wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

Update coming with information about the size of OpenAI's deals with other publishers

Scoop: New pact between News Corp and OpenAI could be worth more than $250 million over five years, including compensation in the form of cash and credits for use of OpenAI technology w/ Sam Schechner and Deepa Seetharaman wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

Susan Chira to step down as top editor of The Marshall Project

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Daily Beast's Justin Baragona reports that Jimmy Finkelstein, late of The Messenger, wants to get back in the game... thedailybeast.com/the-messenger-…

#BREAK : Condé Nast Global C.R.O. Pamela Drucker Mann is leaving the company after 16+ years, another blow to a publishing giant struggling with shifting strategies and internal dysfunction.

Full details in the next edition of Puck’ In The Room: 
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'We’re disappointed for multiple reasons that there wasn’t a more competitive primary season.' -- Fox Corp Chief Lachlan Murdoch on earnings call when asked about political advertising during presidential election campaigns.

The parent of Essence magazine is laying the groundwork to acquire more publishers, weeks after it agreed to buy Vice Media’s women’s lifestyle site Refinery29, and has tapped GroupM's Kirk McDonald to run a new media holding company wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

Sony, Apollo Make $26 Billion All-Cash Offer for Paramount wsj.com/business/deals… via The Wall Street Journal w/Miriam Gottfried

Excited to share that my book is now available for pre-order! I have spent years reporting 'The Everything War.' It is the first untold exposé of Amazon’s endless strategic greed in pursuit of total domination. Available for pre-order here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dana-ma…… $AMZN

An NPR editor’s essay criticizing the network is the latest sign of a media-industry management challenge: how to handle staffers who are willing to go public with concerns about their employers wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

scoop — Ben Sherwood is CEO of The Daily Beast, effective immediately, and Joanna Coles is its chief content and creative officer. Story here:
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The New York Times ended its investigation into whether staffers leaked confidential information about its Gaza war coverage without any conclusive finding wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

New York Times leak probe into whether staffers leaked confidential information about its Gaza war coverage ended without a conclusive finding. Story coming.

My latest: A leak probe inside the New York Times shows cracks in the culture of one of America’s leading newsrooms wsj.com/business/media…

Just reposting our SCOOP from Friday night (for those who were offline) about the tentative details of the deal being discussed between Skydance and Paramount, under which Redstone's NAI will get $2 billion, while $PARA shareholders will get stock in combined company valuing

So thrilled that Bennett Richardson will be joining us Semafor! semafor.com/article/04/07/…

SCOOP: For years Forbes ran an alternate, clickbait version of its site that was stuffed to the brim with ads

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🟡 SCOOP: To get their show featured at the top of the Apple Podcasts feed, podcasters fill out a form, send it to Apple, and hope for the best.

The other, quicker way is to simply give the company a slice of their revenue, Max Tani reports.
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