U.S. entrepreneur and billionaire Peter Thiel is to receive the Axel Springer Award in recognition of how he has "created new markets, reshaped existing ones in an extraordinary way, and left a lasting mark on the technological, economic and societal debates of our time," according to a press release from the German media group that is honoring him. Axel Springer owns Die Welt, Bild, Politico, Business Insider, and the U.K.'s Telegraph. Here's more from DPA.

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Nearly 400 local newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright theft. Diane Kennedy, president of the New York News Publishers Association, told Straight Arrow News AI chatbots represent "an extinction-level event for newspapers." “We’re the credible sources, so if they kill us, they don’t have any credible sources anymore.”

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Our Topics editors have created Flipboard topics for every #WorldCup team, from Algeria to Uzbekistan, plus topics for host cities and the whole tournament. Search the app or flipboard.com to find the country or countries you're rooting for.

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Times are hard for journalists, and they're getting harder. Peter Thiel has teamed up with a legal strategist called Aron D’Souza to create Objection, a tech startup that uses AI to assess the legitimacy of articles. Gary Baum writes for @nprofile1q... about his experience being the first reporter to be taken to an "AI tribunal," over an article he wrote about Purdue Pharma heir Michael Sackler.

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“You don’t give a facelift with a f**king machete.” Ex "60 Minutes" staffers tell @nprofile1q... what they think of Bari Weiss's changes to the program.

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"When '60 Minutes' is in trouble, we are all in trouble." Jim Acosta writes for his newsletter about CBS, the firing of Scott Pelley, and what to do next. "Pelley was famous for giving reporters this piece of advice: 'you can either be too aggressive or not aggressive enough,'" Acosta writes. "It is high time for the independent media to follow Pelley’s advice, be aggressive, and sound the alarm about the coming storm."

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Updated: CBS News has fired Scott Pelley over his conversation with "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton. “Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you,” Bilton wrote in a letter to Pelley seen by NBC News.

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"She is murdering '60 Minutes.'" @nprofile1q... reports on an explosive CBS staff meeting in which "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley excoriated network editor in chief Bari Weiss and the show's new executive producer Nick Bilton. “She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?” Pelley asked Bilton. Weiss did not attend the meeting on the advice of CBS executives. [Gift link]

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