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This week’s Media Briefing digs into why The New York Times is hiring the former head of Google’s search and AI partnerships team to manage its relationships with platforms and big tech companies – and why the hire is coming at a pivotal time as AI reshapes the media ecosystem.

• Adam Greenberg joins NYT as vp of strategic partnerships 
• Google AI Mode comes to the U.K., DallasNews Corporation rejects Alden Global Capital’s acquisition offer and more.

NYT poaches Google exec to oversee platform and tech partnerships

No one leaves Google for a publisher gig because they’re chasing a bigger paycheck. 

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Seth Dallaire admits that, before joining Walmart almost four years ago, he hadn’t considered working for the big-box retailer. A longtime digital ad executive, Dallaire had historically been most comfortable at tech companies.

That changed, he said, when he spent time with Walmart’s U.S. president and CEO, John Furner, and learned more about the company’s investments in areas he was familiar with, such as e-commerce, advertising and data. Before joining Walmart, Dallaire was Instacart’s chief revenue officer for two years. Prior to that, he was at Amazon for eight years, leading its global advertising sales and marketing teams, after previously working at Yahoo and Microsoft.

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