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Today’s AJ Highlights

Good morning. Here are today’s highlights:

  1. Restoring The Colors In An Ancient Egyptian Temple “Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple” – Artnet News
  2. The Unraveling Of Alice Munro “No writer who heard it would touch it. From bookstores to biographers to journalists, the literary world had everything to gain from an untarnished Alice Munro. Open secrets require closed doors.” – The Walrus
  3. Aggressive Prediction: Music Streaming Revenue Will Double By 2030 “By the numbers, that refers to $49.7 billion in paid streaming gross revenue for 2030, nearly double 2023’s $26.4 billion, and a cool 647 million paid subscribers in emerging markets (up from 300 million in 2023), per Music in the Air.” – Digital Music News
  4. Our Brains On Online Reviews “Yes, AI is a problem, and so are human-generated fakes. ‘People do a pretty poor job at discerning a fake review from a real one. It’s essentially a coin flip – studies have shown that shoppers can correctly identify a fake review only half of the time.'” – Read more
  5. Atlantic Magazine Becomes Profitable, Reports 1M Subscriptions And Returns To Monthly Print “It’s an everything-old-is-new-again finding that also explains the continued success of some books, luxury magazines and literary journals.” – CNN

Skip down to see all the stories we collected in the past day. See you tomorrow.

Doug

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