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The New York Times Help Wanted: Looking for an AI Editor to Start Publishing Stories: Six Figure Salary

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The New York Times Help Wanted: Looking for an AI Editor to Start Publishing Stories: Six Figure Salary

The New York Times boast all the news that’s fit to print. That news used to be written by humans.

But it looks like the Times is going let bots do their journalism. They’re looking for “a senior editor to lead the newsroom’s efforts to ambitiously and responsibly make use of generative artificial intelligence.”

I’m not kidding. How the mighty have fallen. It’s on their job listings.

Have we reached the end of civilization now?

“This editor will be responsible for ensuring that The Times is a leader in GenAI innovation and its applications for journalism. They will lead our efforts to use GenAI tools in reader-facing ways as well as internally in the newsroom. To do so, they will shape the vision for how we approach this technology and will serve as the newsroom’s leading voice on its opportunity as well as its limits and risks. “

Here are the qualifications for this job, which pays between $180,000 and $200,000:

Specific responsibilities include:

  • In conjunction with the masthead, setting a vision for how The Times makes use of generative artificial intelligence related to its news report
  • Working with newsroom and company leaders to shape the broader strategy for the application of GenAI across all products
  • Managing a team of journalists, technologists and designers who are able to conduct research, develop prototypes and run experiments
  • Assessing which GenAI ideas are most promising for The Times news report, prioritizing which ones we should explore first, and determining which ones have high enough editorial merit or other benefits to move into production – and partnering effectively with product teams at each stage
  • Representing the newsroom’s point of view on GenAI in collaborative work with the rest of the company, and working with leaders in product, design, and technology to bring ideas from the prototype state to production
  • Managing the execution of teams prototyping new capabilities
  • Overseeing any wider experimentation with and use of GenAI by journalists across the newsroom
  • Staying up to speed with the latest research and developments in the GenAI spacePartnering with engineering and others to vet GenA.I tools, including assessing any algorithmic biases 

Basic Qualifications 

  • Deep journalistic experience, with the ability to make sound judgments about journalistic quality and process as well as standards and ethics
  • Technical curiosity and fluency, including understanding how language models work and how to evaluate them in a journalistic context. The ability to code is preferred but not required, but fluency in discussing and engaging with the technology is necessary 
  • Experience leading or working with cross-functional product development teams 
  • An ability to manage nimble teams working across simultaneous tracks of work, and to keep projects organized and on track
  • Experience serving as a positive partner to cross-functional stakeholders and engaging effectively with leadership about high priority work

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience navigating complex, high stakes projects at The Times or other similar news organizations is strongly preferred
  • A creative mindset and the ability to bring a broad vision and big ideas to The Times’s journalistic use of GenAI, and to prioritize work and make trade-offs in support of that strategy

If SAG Strike Isn’t Over Soon, Awards Season Will Be Decimated, No New TV Shows for 2024 — Actors Sign Letter Backing Strike Over Poor Settlement

Roger Friedman
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If SAG Strike Isn’t Over Soon, Awards Season Will Be Decimated, No New TV Shows for 2024 — Actors Sign Letter Backing Strike Over Poor Settlement

Hundreds of actors have signed a letter saying they’d rather continue the SAG AFTRA strike over getting a raw deal from the studios.

Negotiations resume today. The studios’ PR let it out that they could walk away and resume in January if they can’t nail down a deal. Sources yesterday said there was “cautious optimism” about settling in the next few days.

What’s on the table if no deal is reached, and the two sides don’t talk again until January? There are massive repercussions.

The biggest disaster would be no TV shows for the rest of the 2023-24 season. Pilot season begins in February of every year. If the strike isn’t settled until January, all planning will be aimed toward a relaunch in September.

More immediately: the Emmy Awards have still not happened for last season. They’re scheduled for January 15th. The Critics Choice Awards are set for the 14th. The Golden Globes in some form are planned for January 7th. They are major marketing tools for the studios, all of them. They would be scuttled if the strike were still on. The studios can’t afford that.

Last night I ran into a number of SAG members at the Project ALS charity dinner in New York. The words “cautious optimism” hung in the air over the crowd. But no one is ready to “cave in.”

Here’s the solidarity letter.

Here’s the Best Unreleased Taylor Song in a Long Time: “Say Don’t Go” from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”

Roger Friedman
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Here’s the Best Unreleased Taylor Song in a Long Time: “Say Don’t Go” from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”

“Say Don’t Go” was written by Diane Warren and Taylor Swift about 9 years ago but didn’t make it onto “1989.”

Now Taylor has recorded it, and the song is one of her best, as turns out. It has rhythm and a hook that makes sense. Once you hear it, you won’t forget it. Warren is the right tunesmith to write with Swift, their collaboration is well matched.

Just watch this one hit iTunes overnight.

Don’t Believe All the BS About Justin Timberlake from BS (Britney Spears), It’s Meant to Sell Books — And It’s Working!

Roger Friedman
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Don’t Believe All the BS About Justin Timberlake from BS (Britney Spears), It’s Meant to Sell Books — And It’s Working!

Britney Spears has followed Jada Pinkett into the Festivus department.

The kooky former singer and dancer has blamed everything bad in her life on Justin Timberlake. He’s not going to respond, and she knows it, so the little unconfirmed accusations roll out every hour.

Reality check: Spears is doing it to sell books. She got a big advance. She needs the money to pay it back. Britney Spears sells no records now, and is not performing live in concert. She has a big bottom line, no matter how much she made in the past. Remember, she did not write her hits. She isn’t getting publishing royalties. Even the book’s sales and all the PR haven’t put her records back on any charts.

I keep reading that Timberlake is upset because he was planning new music, etc, and this has thrown a wrench into the works. Calm down. In six months, no one will care about Britney’s book. It may be six weeks. Justin can come roaring back with music next summer, and a tour, and it will all do well.

What Spears has done here is not classy, but we’re not surprised. She was right, though, that the mass audience would eat up her whining. I’m sorry she had to go through an abortion, but doesn’t she have 50% responsibility for getting pregnant? At 17? Timberlake was correct in not wanting to be a teen dad. BTW, in the book she says he was with her through the whole thing. So let’s get a grip.

Every encounter I’ve ever had with Justin Timberlake has been a positive one. He’s made mistakes, like everyone, but nothing that would suggest he’s due a public pillaging. Maybe Britney, like Jada, should own up to her own mistakes. And not charge us $22 to relive them!

Rachel Maddow Tests Positive for COVID, Cancels Book Appearances– Thank Goodness It Wasn’t on a Monday!

Roger Friedman
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Rachel Maddow Tests Positive for COVID, Cancels Book Appearances– Thank Goodness It Wasn’t on a Monday!

Rachel Maddow has tested positive for COVID. She just announced she’s cancelling her book promotion dates this week.

MSNBC must be relieved this happened on a Thursday. With some good rest and fluids Maddow can still make Monday’s show. MSNBC is probably delivering Paxlovid to her right now by messenger.

Speedy recovery, Rachel. We need you!

Review: HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is Back for More High Society Hijinks Circa 1882 with All Star Cast

Regina Weinreich
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Review: HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is Back for More High Society Hijinks Circa 1882 with All Star Cast

Nothing says high hauteur like new money. In season 2 of HBO’s grand series, The Gilded Age,” “the new” hits its stride.

Forget Stanford White’s magnificent design for the newly completed Russell mansion on-turn-of-the-century Fifth Avenue (its façade built in Newport.) The mansion’s queen of decadent display, Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) has empires to build ascending to society’s ether.

Snobbery, of course, does not work. Readers of Henry James and Edith Wharton fiction know how the hierarchies among the rich work, their laws finite. Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn looks down her chiseled nose at her neighbors, nailing the divide between Old New York and New.

But Bertha surprises us; aided by her husband George (Morgan Spector) and his fortune, she shows what does the trick: research, preparation, the drive to roll up satin sleeves, and grit to get the job done. For this season, we learn the “true” origins of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Metropolitan Opera House. There will be blood.

Fellowes was brilliant with the splendors and spectacle of “Downton Abbey,” both upstairs and down. Add to that the lives of Blacks, North and South. As we know from season one, Peggy Scott (Denee Benton), an aspiring young black writer works at the van Rhijn house as her career rises at the newspaper called The Globe. Turns out she has a backstory, explored tenderly as is the plight of our heroine, Marion Brook (Louisa Jacobson, a daughter of Meryl Streep), a niece, an innocent, who has been jilted. Disgraced? Never. This season takes a more positive view: she’s merely rescued from marriage to the wrong man.

Satisfying a (guilty) itch for gossip, who’s marrying who, “The Gilded Age” features a dazzling cast of American stage actors: Audra McDonald and Kelli O’Hara head the long list that also includes Michael Cerveris, Patrick Page, Laura Benanti, Kristine Nielsen, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Donna Murphy, and a wildly over the top Nathan Lane, to name a few. Robert Sean Leonard is a particularly cool choice for the clergyman Luke Forte, having performed in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of “The Age of Innocence.”

Some theater actors work in kitchens downstairs, providing nourishment, and on a larger scale, a sustaining contentment that may be enough for this addictive series—but I, for one, hunger for Season 3.  

Taylor Swift Is Including Unreleased Diane Warren Song “Say Don’t Go” on Her New Version of “1989”

Roger Friedman
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Taylor Swift Is Including Unreleased Diane Warren Song “Say Don’t Go” on Her New Version of “1989”

When Taylor Swift’s re-recorded “1989” album drops tonight it will have a totally unreleased song written by Oscar winner Diane Warren.

“Say Don’t Go” was created back in 2014 but didn’t make the album. It may have been a matter of Warren writing the song — Swift likes her own copyrights. So does Warren. She’s written dozens of smash hits for Aerosmith, Cher, Lady Gaga, and more.

But apparently a deal was worked out, and the song will be “from the vaults” tonight. Look for it to be embraced by the Swifties within seconds.

Here are the lyrics:

Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) –

[Verse 1]
I’ve known it from the very start
We’re a shot in the darkest dark
Oh no, oh no
I’m unarmed
The waiting is a sadness
Fading into madness
Oh no, oh no
It won’t stop

[Chorus]
I’m standing on a tightrope alone
I hold my breath a little bit longer
Halfway out the door, but it won’t close
I’m holding out for you to say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”

[Verse 2]
Why’d you have to lead me on?
Why you’d have to twist the knife?
Walk away and leave me
Bleeding, bleeding?
Why’d you whisper in the dark
Just to leave me in the night?
Now you silence has me
Screaming, screaming

[Verse 3]
Now I’m facing on shaky ground
Strikе a match, then you blow it out
Oh no, oh no
It’s not fair
‘Cause you kiss me and it stops timе
And I’m yours, but you’re not mine
Oh no, oh no
Now you’re not there

[Chorus]
I’m standing on the sidewalk alone
I wait for you to drive by
I’m trying to see the cards that you won’t show
I’m about to fold unless you say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”
I’m standing on a tightrope alone
I hold my breath a little bit longer
Halfway out the door, but it won’t close
I’m holding out for you to say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”
https://a6a5df135c0c4e33554a046d6a32eb39.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html[Bridge]
Why’d you have to make me want you?
Why’d you have to give me nothing back?
Why’d you leave to make me love you?
I said, “I love you,” you say nothing back

[Chorus]
I’m standing on a tightrope alone
I hold my breath a little bit longer
Halfway out the door, but it won’t close
I’m holding out for you to say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”

[Outro]
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’t
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’thttps://a6a5df135c0c4e33554a046d6a32eb39.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html

[Verse 1]
I’ve known it from the very start
We’re a shot in the darkest dark
Oh no, oh no
I’m unarmed
The waiting is a sadness
Fading into madness
Oh no, oh no
It won’t stop

[Chorus]
I’m standing on a tightrope alone
I hold my breath a little bit longer
Halfway out the door, but it won’t close
I’m holding out for you to say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”

[Verse 2]
Why’d you have to lead me on?
Why you’d have to twist the knife?
Walk away and leave me
Bleeding, bleeding?
Why’d you whisper in the dark
Just to leave me in the night?
Now you silence has me
Screaming, screaming

[Verse 3]
Now I’m facing on shaky ground
Strikе a match, then you blow it out
Oh no, oh no
It’s not fair
‘Cause you kiss me and it stops timе
And I’m yours, but you’re not mine
Oh no, oh no
Now you’re not there

[Chorus]
I’m standing on the sidewalk alone
I wait for you to drive by
I’m trying to see the cards that you won’t show
I’m about to fold unless you say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”
I’m standing on a tightrope alone
I hold my breath a little bit longer
Halfway out the door, but it won’t close
I’m holding out for you to say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”
https://a6a5df135c0c4e33554a046d6a32eb39.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html[Bridge]
Why’d you have to make me want you?
Why’d you have to give me nothing back?
Why’d you leave to make me love you?
I said, “I love you,” you say nothing back

[Chorus]
I’m standing on a tightrope alone
I hold my breath a little bit longer
Halfway out the door, but it won’t close
I’m holding out for you to say, “Don’t go”
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”

[Outro]
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’t
I would stay forever if you say, “Don’t go”
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’t
But you won’thttps://a6a5df135c0c4e33554a046d6a32eb39.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html

The Beatles “Now and Then” Final Single Releasing NOVEMBER 2ND Brings John, Paul, George, and Ringo Together For Last Time (Watch Short Film)

Roger Friedman
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The Beatles “Now and Then” Final Single Releasing NOVEMBER 2ND Brings John, Paul, George, and Ringo Together For Last Time (Watch Short Film)

“Now and Then” will be the last track on the remixed, remastered “Blue” album, companion to the new “Red” album. The song will drop November 2nd, but here’s a trailer. (Nice to know, there’s no press help on this. It’s all a mystery. Really groovy.)

1962-1966 (2023 EDITION) (2CD: stereo / Digital + Streaming: stereo & Dolby Atmos) * = newly added track CD1 1: Love Me Do (2023 Mix) 2: Please Please Me (2023 Mix) 3: I Saw Her Standing There (2023 Mix) * 4: Twist And Shout (2023 Mix) * 5: From Me To You (2023 Mix) 6: She Loves You (2023 Mix) 7: I Want To Hold Your Hand (2023 Mix) 8: This Boy (2023 Mix) * 9: All My Loving (2023 Mix) 10: Roll Over Beethoven (2023 Mix) * 11: You Really Got A Hold On Me (2023 Mix) * 12: Can’t Buy Me Love (2023 Mix) 13: You Can’t Do That (2023 Mix) * 14: A Hard Day’s Night (2023 Mix) 15: And I Love Her (2023 Mix) 16: Eight Days A Week (2023 Mix) 17: I Feel Fine (2023 Mix) 18: Ticket To Ride (2023 Mix) 19: Yesterday (2023 Mix) CD2 1: Help! (2023 Mix) 2: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (2023 Mix) 3: We Can Work It Out (2023 Mix) 4: Day Tripper (2023 Mix) 5: Drive My Car (2023 Mix) 6 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (2023 Mix) 7: Nowhere Man (2023 Mix) 8: Michelle (2023 Mix) 9: In My Life (2023 Mix) 10: If I Needed Someone (2023 Mix) * 11: Girl (2023 Mix) 12: Paperback Writer (2022 Mix) 13: Eleanor Rigby (2022 Mix) 14: Yellow Submarine (2022 Mix) 15: Taxman (2022 Mix) * 16: Got To Get You Into My Life (2022 Mix) * 17: I’m Only Sleeping (2022 Mix) * 18: Here, There And Everywhere (2022 Mix) * 19: Tomorrow Never Knows (2022 Mix) *

1967-1970 (2023 EDITION) (2CD: stereo / Digital + Streaming: stereo & Dolby Atmos) * = newly added track CD1 1: Strawberry Fields Forever (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 2: Penny Lane (2017 Mix) 3: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017 Mix) 4: With A Little Help From My Friends (2017 Mix) 5: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (2017 Mix) 6: Within You Without You (2017 Mix) * 7: A Day In The Life (2017 Mix) 8: All You Need Is Love (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 9: I Am The Walrus (2023 Mix) 10: Hello, Goodbye (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 11: The Fool On The Hill (2023 Mix) 12: Magical Mystery Tour (2023 Mix) 13: Lady Madonna (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 14: Hey Jude (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 15: Revolution (2023 Mix) CD2 1: Back In The U.S.S.R. (2018 Mix) 2: Dear Prudence (2018 Mix) * 3: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2018 Mix) 4: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (2018 Mix) 5: Glass Onion (2018 Mix) * 6: Blackbird (2018 Mix) * 7: Hey Bulldog (2023 Mix) * 8: Get Back (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 9: Don’t Let Me Down (2021 Mix) 10: The Ballad Of John And Yoko (2015 Stereo Mix / 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix) 11: Old Brown Shoe (2023 Mix) 12: Here Comes The Sun (2019 Mix) 13: Come Together (2019 Mix) 14: Something (2019 Mix) 15: Octopus’s Garden (2019 Mix) 16: Oh! Darling (2019 Mix) * 17: I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (2019 Mix) * 18: Let It Be (2021 Mix) 19: Across The Universe (2021 Mix) 20: I Me Mine (2021 Mix) * 21: The Long And Winding Road (2021 Mix) 22: Now And Then *

Bruce Springsteen, Sidelined by Peptic Ulcer, “Was Playing in Pain All the Time,” Says Stevie van Zandt

Roger Friedman
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Bruce Springsteen, Sidelined by Peptic Ulcer, “Was Playing in Pain All the Time,” Says Stevie van Zandt

As Bruce Springseen’s fans know, he had to cancel all his tour dates from September through the end of the year because of a peptic ulcer.

Now his longtime friend and bandmate Stevie van Zandt reveals that Bruce “was in pain the whole time” they were doing shows this summer. van Zandt and his cool wife, Maureen, are guests on the Naked Lunch podcast that drops tonight.

Naked Lumch is hosted by two of my favorite guys, Phil Rosenthal (creator of “Everyone Loves Raymond”) and David Wild, writer of all the hip awards shows and music events on TV.

Here’s a clip from tonight’s show:

Showbiz Biz: William Morris Endeavor May Be Up for Sale, Song Cataloger Hipgnosis Fund Faces the Music Thursday

Roger Friedman
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Showbiz Biz: William Morris Endeavor May Be Up for Sale, Song Cataloger Hipgnosis Fund Faces the Music Thursday

Two big biz stories breaking today:

William Morris Endeavor, aka Endeavor Holdings, may be on the block. First CAA was sold, now their rival could be looking for a deal.

Here’s the release:

Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR) (“Endeavor” or the “Company”), a global sports and entertainment company, today announced the initiation of a formal review to evaluate strategic alternatives for the Company.

As part of this review of strategic alternatives, the Company will not consider the sale or disposition of the Company’s interest in TKO Group Holdings, Inc.

“Given the continued dislocation between Endeavor’s public market value and the intrinsic value of Endeavor’s underlying assets, we believe an evaluation of strategic alternatives is a prudent approach to ensure we are maximizing value for our shareholders,” said Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor.

Tomorrow we get the news from Hipgnosis, owner of numerous song catalogs of famous musicians. Do they stay in business? Do they get sold? Will the shareholders bail and look for other places to invest their money? Are they sold right back to Merck Mercuriadis, who runs them now, and Blackstone Group?

Hipgnosis Stock dropped precipitously on October 16, but it’s bounced back a little since then. What tune will everyone be whistling tomorrow?

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