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Kevin Draper / New York Times:
ESPN talent and management have been at odds over the past year, after a white ESPN reporter suggested her colleague got a prized job because she was black — In comments still rippling through the network, the reporter Rachel Nichols, who is white, said Maria Taylor, who is Black …
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Report: spending on iOS ads has fallen one-third between June 1 and July 1, while Android spending rose 10%; less than 33% of iOS users opt-in to tracking — Android ad prices have jumped, as iOS users opt out of being tracked, early data show — Advertisers have begun shifting …
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Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
An attempt led by Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance to circumvent Apple's privacy policies, called CAID, has failed to get traction after Apple blocked app updates — Tracking system for iPhones developed by Chinese tech groups fails to gain traction — A co-ordinated attempt by Chinese tech companies …
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: Sinclair, the dominant owner of regional sports networks in the US, made an offer to acquire NBCUniversal's seven regional sports networks — Sinclair Broadcasting Group, already the nation's dominant owner of regional sports networks, has made an offer to acquire NBCUniversal's …
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Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
YouGov: 47% of those in US don't have cable TV, including 60% of those 18-34; another survey finds most advertisers say CTV works at least as well as linear TV — Cordless consumers are on track to exceed cable viewers within the next year, according to a survey of 4,000 U.S. adults conducted …
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Comcast hires David Rhodes to lead international business development at Sky, after News Corp's plans to launch a Fox News-like network in UK were scaled back — - David Rhodes moving on after News Corp. TV project scaled back — Comcast's European division Sky faces challenge from Netflix
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sports outlets like Racquet, whose next issue Naomi Osaka is guest editing, acknowledge athletes' social media reach while retaining journalistic independence — The tennis superstar is guest-editing Racquet magazine and has written a cover essay for Time. What's left for traditional sports journalism?
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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Q&A with Daniel Rausch, VP of Entertainment Devices & Services at Amazon, about bringing Fire TV to cars, Amazon's game streaming service, and more — Amazon has sold millions of Fire TV sticks across the globe, and struck up partnerships with a number of TV manufacturers to embed …
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Gabriel Geiger / VICE:
Norway passes law requiring ads and sponsored posts that use manipulated images of body parts be labeled; King of Norway will decide when it goes into effect — The new law will require advertisements where a body's shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled. — GG
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
DOJ has begun arresting those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment during the US Capitol riot — Nearly six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, the Justice Department has begun arresting a new category of alleged criminals — those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment …
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@washingtonpost, @bethreinhard, @cjciaramella, @nc5philwilliams, @plalor, Raw Story, @ryanvizzions, @markfollman, Axios and The Verge
Austen Goslin / Polygon:
Riot Games, maker of League of Legends, releases an album of lo-fi beats, letting gamers stream their sessions with music without fear of DMCA copyright strikes — Vi from League of Legends stars in an animated video about relaxing — Riot Games' latest music project is an album of chill lo-fi beats for players to relax/game to.
The Information:
Sources: US subscriber growth at Disney+ has slowed sharply, with 38M total subs in North America as of early July, compared to 37M at the start of February — U.S. subscriber growth at Disney's Disney+ streaming service slowed sharply in the past few months, according to internal data reviewed …
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