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4:05 PM ET, June 29, 2021

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Axios:
Analysis: after Trump left office, monthly traffic to outlets has declined across the ideological spectrum, from -43.8% for far-right to -27.3% for far-left  —  In the months since former President Donald Trump left office, media companies' readership numbers are plunging …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Fox News agrees to pay a $1M fine for “a pattern of violating the NYC Human Rights Law”; Fox also must remove secret arbitration clauses from hiring contracts  —  Fox News effectively admitted to a pattern of misconduct and has agreed to pay a civil penalty in New York.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Facebook unveils Bulletin, its Substack competitor, with recruited writers including Malcolm Gladwell and Erin Andrews, won't take a revenue cut “at launch”  —  Facebook won't take a cut ‘at launch’  —  Facebook is getting into the subscription newsletter game.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Amazon buys exclusive rights to celeb interview podcast SmartLess, hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes; sources say the deal is worth $60-80M  —  - Company will air new episodes before they appear elsewhere  — Podcast features Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes
Nat Ives / Wall Street Journal:
WPP's GroupM says it aims to spend $75M through Group Black, a collective to encourage marketers to spend on Black-owned media, including Shade Room and Essence  —  Group Black Inc. also intends to invest some proceeds in Black-owned media properties  —  Group Black Inc. …
The Daily Beast:
YouTube reinstates the channel of Right Wing Watch, a watchdog group that monitors far-right media outlets, saying it was mistakenly suspended  —  Right Wing Watch was banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube.
Associated Press:
Russian authorities raided the apartments of investigative journalists in connection to a story about the interior minister and a documentary on organized crime  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Tuesday morning raided the apartments of several investigative journalists and their family members …
Rana Ayyub / Washington Post:
The Indian government is attempting to present journalists as instigators of violence as a journalist faces harassment and criminal charges over a tweet  —  During the virtual Group of Seven summit a couple of weeks ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed a joint statement to promote …
The Objective:
The Objective, a nonprofit launched in June 2020 to critique journalism and highlight underrepresented communities, will take a three month break  —  The Objective launched in June 2020 to challenge systems of oppression in newsrooms for the sake of both journalists and the communities we cover.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Amazon debuts Reading Sidekick, which reads physical and digital books aloud from a catalog of over 700, for Kids Plus on Fire tablets and Echo devices  —  Reading Sidekick is available on Echo devices starting today  —  Amazon has announced a new feature for its Kids Plus service …
 
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
EU's right-to-be-forgotten movement has highlighted journalists' tendency to publish news about arrests but pass on stories about exoneration or dropped charges
Bloomberg Law:
Sources: US DOJ's antitrust investigators have increased scrutiny of Google's digital ad market practices in recent months, moving ahead with a Trump-era probe
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The Atlantic:
A eulogy for Hong Kong's free press, as the closure of Apple Daily and arrest of journalists signals a dark new chapter