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David Pegg / The Guardian:
Leaked list shows 180+ journalists, working for FT, CNN, NYT, WSJ, and others, are among potential targets of surveillance by government clients of NSO Group — Data leak and forensics suggest NSO's surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world's top media companies
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The Guardian:
Over 80 journalists from 16 outlets, members of the Forbidden Stories consortium, collaborated on the Pegasus project, which investigated the NSO Group leak — The Pegasus project poses urgent questions about the privatisation of the surveillance industry and the lack of safeguards for citizens
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Washington Post, Forbidden Stories, Washington Post, MediaNama, @paullewis, @paullewis, Daily Herald, Newser, @emilybell and Financial Times
Helen Rosner / New Yorker:
Experts say consent and disclosure are key to the ethical use of synthetic media, amid controversy surrounding Bourdain's deepfake voice in a new documentary — The new documentary “Roadrunner” uses A.I.-generated audio without disclosing it to viewers. How should we feel about that?
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Quartz, Variety, @laurenweinstein, @hels, @samgregory, @hels, @hels, The Starting Block, Critical Linking, @_karenhao, @jenniferbrandel, @jamesgleick, Quick Brown Fox, @tribelaw, @hels, @jonahblank, @martinaustwick, New York Times, @anniegowen, @lainnafader, @hels, @markberman, @davidsunlee, @tomphilpott, @hels, @williams_paige, @brianmfloyd, @velliniv, @lainnafader, @kainazamaria, @mtrc, @yashwinacanter, @paisleyfred, @ritajking, Kellie's Newsletter and Insider, more at Techmeme »
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the share of viewers' TV usage per day grew for cable and streaming services in June to 40% and 27% respectively, while it fell for broadcast to 23% — ‘Manifest,’ meanwhile, is the top streaming title in Nielsen's rankings for June 14-20 and ‘Loki’ rises to No. 1 among originals.
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@mulvihill79, @aliciadfortner, @wendykrouse, @jeff_rake, @nielsen, @savemanifest and The Streamable
BBC:
Guto Harri, suspended from GB News for taking a knee, has quit the network, saying it's “rapidly becoming an absurd parody of what it proclaimed to be” — Broadcaster Guto Harri has quit GB News after he was suspended for taking the knee during a discussion about racism towards England's black footballers.
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Press Gazette, The Sunday Times and The Guardian
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Sources: LiveU, an Israel-based developer of live broadcasting and streaming tech used by 3K+ media organizations, to be acquired by PE firm Carlyle for $400M — Streaming is the name of the content game these days, and now one of the companies that builds tech to do this from anywhere in the world is getting acquired.
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calcalist
Eric Frederick / NC Local News Workshop:
Q&A with NC Policy Watch reporter Joe Killian on covering the Nikole Hannah-Jones story, his philosophy of reporting, the failures of journalism, and more — Check out the full NC Local newsletter from July 14, which includes related reporting on this UNC story, details …
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@ncnewsworks and @hbcompass
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
National Association of Theatre Owners claims Black Widow's opening weekend may have been $92M+ instead of $80M if it had not simultaneously launched on Disney+ — Disney announced in March that “Black Widow,” among several of its 2021 films, would premiere simultaneously …
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The Wrap, @zachbgilbert, @waltisfrozen and ScreenRant
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Interview with BuzzFeed News climate and science reporter Zahra Hirji, on lessons of pandemic reporting and how to share context on climate throughout newsrooms — Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, and culture. You can read what this is all about here.
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Culture Study, @mr_bellis, @tvietor08, @tomnamako, @mat, @martynschmoll, @nicnguyen, @cwarzel, @cwarzel and @cwarzel
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Automattic, owner of Tumblr, buys podcast app Pocket Casts from a public radio collective that includes NPR, which reportedly lost $800K on it last year — A new home for the popular podcast app — Pocket Casts has a new owner. Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and recently purchased Tumblr …
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Señales.co, The WordPress.com Blog, @ashleyrcarman, TechCrunch, @pocketcasts, @rustyshelf, @elibud, @davechensky, @mattbirchler, @chris_mrtn, insideradio.com, @ivanbrezakbrkan, @tferriss, @borthwick, @seyitaylor, @nisummers, @evoterra, @automattic, @dcseifert, @loudmouthjulia, Great Pods Newsletter and RAIN News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Courts generally bar journalists from using recording devices in trials; ending the ban would let reporters add color to stories and sometimes improve accuracy — In his job as a staff writer for the Richmond County (N.C.) Daily Journal, Matthew Sasser is used to reading about the alleged misdeeds of other people, not about himself.
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@joshgerstein, @aviwoolf, @craigmwhitlock, @coreywrites, @spj_tweets, @postopinions, @erikwemple, @oliverdarcy and American Press Institute
Katie Tam / Associated Press:
Booksellers at Hong Kong's annual book fair are offering a reduced selection of politically sensitive books, fearing violation of China's national security law — HONG KONG (AP) — Booksellers at Hong Kong's annual book fair are offering a reduced selection of books deemed politically sensitive …
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