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A highly amusing, albeit scathing New York Times restaurant review of Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen & Bar that went viral in 2012 is being used by attorneys acting for the Times in their lawsuit against OpenAI to illustrate just how destructive the new technology could be to the future of journalism. When prompted about the opening paragraphs of critic Pete Wells’ review, entire passages are lifted verbatim by ChatGPT. “Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex?” Wells had written. Those sentences and several other paragraphs were copied directly from the pages of the paper and then regurgitated by the AI system, per the lawsuit.

Local news has been decimated in America, owing to a lethal cocktail of uninterested readers and greedy venture capital firms that buy local papers and then cut them to...

New York City-based leaders from across the business spectrum have urged Congress to certify the presidential election results as scheduled on Wednesday, warning that any delays would “run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy.”

The letter, issued today, comes as Congress braces for a showdown on Wednesday between 11 incumbent and incoming U.S. senators and some 140 GOP members of the House vowing to contest the electoral college results from their states. The push is part of President Donald Trump’s increasingly desperate campaign to falsely claim that he prevailed in the Nov. 3 presidential election over his Democratic challenger, President-elect Joe Biden. Trump’s legal challenges to the election have been dismissed by judges in multiple states.

The two-paragraph statement from the Partnership for New York City organization was signed by more than 170 business leaders, including Hearst CEO Steve Swartz, Altice CEO Dexter Goei, Conde Nast CEO Roger Lynch,...

Condé Nast, taking the sharpest aim at linear TV of any of the NewFronts presenters thus far, styled itself as the “new primetime” destination for media buyers during its Tuesday afternoon pitch at the newly opened Hudson Yards.

“We’re the new Thursday night, and we’re always on,” declared Pamela Drucker Mann, chief revenue and marketing officer of Condé Nast. The event made liberal use of mid-20th century iconography of TV sets with rabbit ears but sought to emphasize how the stable of brands like Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and The New Yorker has replaced the traditional linear lions of the broadcast world.

The choice of venue was not insignificant: Mercado Little Spain, a sprawling Spanish food market on the base level of 10 Hudson Yards, one of the new towers along the High Line on Manhattan’s West Side, along the Hudson River. Two doors down, at 30 Hudson...

Roger Lynch, former CEO of Pandora and Dish Network’s Sling TV, has been named CEO of Condé Nast in a move that signals the role technology will play in the future of traditional media companies.

Jonathan Newhouse, newly appointed chairman of the company, said a “thorough search” had determined that Lynch is “the right person to lead Condé Nast during our new phase of global integration, growth and transformation.”

Board member Steve Newhouse saluted Lynch’s “passion for great journalism, magazines that make a difference, and brands that have exceptional potential for growth.”

Condé has a stable of estimable magazine brands, including The New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair, but has seen double-digit declines in print circulation and declines in advertising, with Facebook and Google vacuuming up nearly 80 cents of every dollar spent on online advertising.

Lynch, whose tech-oriented travels have also included stints at Video Networks International in...

Condé Nast has named former Pandora head Roger Lynch to the newly created position of global CEO, the company announced Thursday.

Lynch, an outsider tech executive, most recently served as CEO of music streaming service Pandora and before that as founder and CEO of Sling TV. His appointment caps a months long search for the job since Bob Sauerberg Jr revealed last November that he would leave the company.

Lynch will officially start work in the new job on April 22 at which time he will also join the Condé Nast board of directors.

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His appointment comes as the longtime media publisher faces grim industry headwinds that have forced a number of changes and contractions from many of the company’s signature media properties.

Last year, the company ended regular print runs of Glamour,...

Pandora’s stockholders have just approved SiriusXM’s $3.5 billion acquisition of the digital music company, which now involves the exit of Pandora CEO Roger Lynch and the installation of SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer in his place.

Following a special stockholder meeting on Tuesday in which 97 percent of votes cast were in favor of the transaction, Pandora announced via press release that Lynch — who has run Pandora since September 2017, taking it from dire straits to a profitable audio and advertising enterprise — will step down from the company once the deal officially goes through.

Updated with closing stock prices. SiriusXM, the satellite radio company controlled by John Malone’s Liberty Media, is buying Pandora Media in a $3.5 billion aimed at creating a larger rival to Apple Music and Spotify in the intensifying streaming music battle.

The all-stock deal imputes a market valuation for the combined entity of $34 billion, just ahead of Spotify’s. The transaction follows last year’s move by Sirius to spend $480 million for a 15% stake in Pandora.

SiriusXM said the deal would create the “largest digital audio audience” in the U.S. The satellite radio company has more than 36 million subscribers across North America and 23 million-plus annual trial listeners. Pandora claims more than 70 million monthly active users.

SiriusXM CEO James Meyer said on a conference call that the two companies had held merger talks in 2017. “We couldn’t reach an agreement on value, quite honestly,” Meyer said.

Roger Lynch, who took...

Satellite radio giant SiriusXM announced the $3.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Internet radio giant Pandora on Monday, which will bring the two companies together into a massive audio entertainment firm.

In a press release, the two companies said that both brands (and their products and services) will continue to operate under the “definitive agreement,” which creates one company “with more than $7 billion in expected pro-forma revenue in 2018 and strong, long-term growth opportunities.” SiriusXM — whose expertise is in subscription radio in cars — will benefit from Pandora’s home- and mobile-based music service...

T-Mobile customers just got two new perks — a free subscription to the ad-free version of Pandora’s radio service and elite status at Live Nation concerts — as the carrier ramps up competition with its peers.

The third-largest U.S. wireless service provider announced on Wednesday that its customers will, starting at the end of the month, receive access to Pandora Plus, which is an ad-free, track-skippable version of Pandora’s signature Internet radio service usually costing $4.99 a month. (It is not to be confused with Pandora Premium, which is a...

T-Mobile announced two significant music partnerships at its latest Uncarrier event Tuesday: The company is offering its customers a free year of ad-free personalized streaming from Pandora as well as discounted tickets and other special perks from Live Nation.

Customers who register through the T-Mobile Tuesdays app on August 28 will get a full year of Pandora Plus, which regularly costs $4.99 per month. This gets them Pandora’s personalized radio experience without any ads.

Pandora Plus also includes unlimited skips and replays as well as offline listening — features not available to customers listening to Pandora’s free, ad-supported tier.

“This is just the first step in a larger strategic partnership between T-Mobile and Pandora,” said Pandora CEO Roger Lynch. “Expect to hear more.”

As part of the partnership between T-Mobile and Live Nation, customers of the telco will be able to buy tickets to concerts from artists like Wiz Khalifa & Rae Sremmurd,...