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11:05 AM ET, July 1, 2021

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Raleigh News & Observer:
UNC trustees voted to approve tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones after controversy over her hire without tenure as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism  —  Listen to our daily briefing:  —  UNC-Chapel Hill trustees voted to approve tenure for distinguished journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones …
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app”  —  - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram confirms it is working on tools to let creators share “exclusive” content to Stories for paying fans
Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Sources: Meghan McCain will announce her resignation from The View after four years; co-hosts are not yet aware of her decision  —  - Meghan McCain will be announcing her resignation from ABC's The View today, a Disney source told DailyMail.com  — The 36-year-old is leaving the talk show …
David Ingram / NBC News:
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday  —  A federal judge Wednesday put on hold a first-of-its-kind law in Florida that authorized the state to penalize social media companies …
New York Times:
A look at the new guard of fashion editors who are younger and less familiar, but more diverse and have a different set of priorities than the imperial editors  —  Business and culture have conspired to kill off a passé persona.  —  On Monday, when the fashion world will gather …
Maaisha Osman / ONA Student Newsroom:
News organizations see data visualization as a way to educate but readers struggle to understand graphs and need publishers to help walk them through the data  —  While eye-catching data viz pieces like the Financial Times “Coronavirus tracker” or New York Times “The Pandemic Has Split in Two …
David Cohen / Adweek:
Pinterest updates its ad policies to prohibit ads containing weight loss language and imagery  —  It worked with the National Eating Disorders Association on its updated policy  —  Ads promoting healthy lifestyles and habits or fitness services and products will still be allowed
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
TikTok is rolling out longer videos of up to three minutes, up from one minute, to all users over the coming weeks, after testing them since December  —  Now up to three minutes  —  TikToks are about to get longer.  The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos …
Ciara Greene / Nieman Lab:
Study finds reading fake news changed people's behavior, but not dramatically; some participants developed false memories about the fake stories they read  —  “The spread of Covid-19 is linked to 5G mobile networks.”  “Place a halved onion in the corner of your room to catch the Covid-19 germs.”
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Mikey O'Connell / The Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of married home-renovation team Chip and Joanna Gaines as their new media company Magnolia Network launches its first shows on Discovery+ on July 15  —  The couple have harnessed their easy approachability to build a thriving empire encompassing TV, books, hospitality and retail.
 
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Tribune names its longtime theater critic Chris Jones as editorial page editor, in the wake of staff buyouts and exit of high-profile journalists
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Fired Fox news host Ed Henry sues Fox and its CEO for saying he was fired for “willful sexual misconduct”, alleges cover-up of other cases in Murdoch companies
Mark Jacob / Local News Initiative:
How college students fill local news gaps with the Eudora Times, covering a suburb of Lawrence, KS, and the Statehouse File, contributing to the Indiana Citizen
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
In an about-face, major outlets, including NYT and WaPo, are running digital sponsored content from Philip Morris touting its research into nicotine products
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Integral Ad Science, which offers ad-verification services, closes up 14% in its first day of trading after its IPO, valuing the company at close to $3.3B
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
After years of covering efforts to exonerate incarcerated people, a reporter describes how a letter led her to personally get involved in a case from Louisiana
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
How Fox News, Newsmax, and other right-wing media propelled critical race theory from academic obscurity to center stage in the US political debate
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Amazon seeks the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan from antitrust probes, including Amazon's purchase of MGM, citing her previous criticism of the tech giant
Sarah Lustbader / The Appeal:
The Appeal's newly unionized staff announces a worker-led effort to relaunch the site as its management says it is shutting down the outlet in its current form
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
After Fox's Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA was monitoring his communications and trying to take his show off the air, the NSA denied the allegations on Tuesday
Pew Research Center:
Pew State of the News Media 2020: daily newspaper circulation was down 6% from 2019, newsroom staff fell 12%, ad revenue fell 29% for public newspaper companies
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”
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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