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7:10 PM ET, August 10, 2021

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Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: WarnerMedia is in talks to sell TMZ to Fox  —  AT&T's WarnerMedia is in talks to sell its TMZ tabloid entertainment company to Fox, according to people familiar with the situation.  The talks are the latest move by WarnerMedia to slim down its collection of businesses.
Discussion: The Wrap and @richlightshed
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Dominion sues OANN and Newsmax for defamation over 2020 election rigging claims and seeks $1.6B+ in damages, citing lost profit and other costs  —  Voting-machine company seeks billions of dollars in damages, citing lost profit and other costs  —  WASHINGTON—One of the largest voting-machine companies …
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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Google will let under 18s delist photos by request, restrict ad targeting of children based on age, gender, or interests, and more
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
NBCUniversal says average nightly viewership for Tokyo Olympics was 15.5M, down 42% from 2016 and the lowest since it won exclusive US media rights 33 years ago  —  Average nightly viewership was 15.5 million, NBCUniversal said, the lowest since it won exclusive U.S. media rights 33 years ago.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Salesforce launches Salesforce+, a free streaming service aimed at business professionals, with original programming from Salesforce and eventually its clients  —  Salesforce is the latest tech giant to venture into video streaming with the launch of a new service aimed at business professionals …
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Tribune names Mitch Pugh, executive editor of Charleston, SC's The Post and Courier, as its top editor; Colin McMahon steps down as EIC after 18 months  —  A summer of transition for the Chicago Tribune under new hedge fund ownership continued with the announcement Tuesday of a change at the top of the masthead.
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Vivendi sells 7.1% of Universal Music Group to Bill Ackman's Pershing Square for $2.8B, after plans to sell to Ackman's SPAC failed to materialize  —  France-based Vivendi, parent of Universal Music Group, has sold 7.1% of that company's share capital to Pershing Square Holdings …
Axios:
Internal memo: Bloomberg Media revenue is up 53% YoY as subscriptions grew by 34% in H1, reaching more than 325,000, with 40%+ of subscribers outside the US  —  Subscriptions to Bloomberg Media grew by 34% in the first half of the year, reaching more than 325,000, according to an internal memo distributed …
Discussion: @justin_b_smith
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
NBCUniversal's Telemundo launches a new division to develop Spanish-language content for Peacock and says it already has 50+ projects planned  —  The new division, NBCUniversal Telemundo Hispanic Streaming, already has more than 50 projects planned for the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
TCL, which has long been the flagbearer of Roku TVs, launches new TVs with Google TV, saying it wants to give consumers more choice and it isn't abandoning Roku  —  The company insists this is about choice and says it's not leaving Roku behind  —  TCL has long been the flag bearer of Roku TVs.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Stewart Bainum, who tried to buy The Baltimore Sun from Alden, has posted job listings for a startup news outlet in Baltimore; source: plans are preliminary  —  Bainum's bid to buy The Baltimore Sun from Alden Global Capital fell through in the spring.  Now he envisions taking on the Sun with a new nonprofit.
 
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Crowds demonstrate in Poland in support of Discovery-owned network TVN ahead of a vote on a bill that may stop non-European companies from owning Polish media
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
NSA's internal watchdog says it is probing allegations by “a member of the US news media” that NSA surveilled him; source: the review concerns Tucker Carlson
Reuters:
Suspected Taliban fighters kill a Kabul radio station manager; report: 30+ media workers were killed, wounded, or abducted by militants in Afghanistan this year
William J. Broad / New York Times:
How the Black reporter Charles Loeb defied the US military's denials to report on radiation poisoning from the Hiroshima strike, even as NYT ignored the topic
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
Fox News bosses, not just Tucker Carlson, should be blamed for his bizarre trip to Hungary, where he lauded PM Viktor Orbán and his brand of far-right autocracy
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN must investigate Chris Cuomo about his conduct in Gov. Cuomo's sexual harassment pushback effort, as it is more than just an optics problem for the network
Variety:
AMC Theatres says it has reached a deal with Warner Bros. on a shortened theatrical window of 45 days for 2022, following a similar deal with Cineworld in April
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Hungary scrubs Tucker Carlson's criticism of Xi Jinping from a transcript of his Orban interview sent to reporters; Carlson broadcast from Hungary last week
George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
A number of popular comic book creators, including DC Comics' James Tynion IV and Marvel's Nick Spencer, join Substack
Jen Mills / Metro.co.uk:
Anti-vaccine protestors try to storm the Television Centre in London, which was BBC's headquarters until 2013