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8:20 AM ET, June 29, 2022

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Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Maria Ressa says the Philippines' SEC told Rappler to close; Ressa says Rappler will fight the ruling affirming an earlier order revoking incorporation papers  —  HONOLULU — Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa said Tuesday that the Philippine government has ordered her news organization to shut down.
Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine:
An in-depth look at why some BuzzFeed stockholders were unable to sell their shares when the company went public, a situation securities lawyers say is unusual  —  Some ex-employees, it turns out, were able to trade while others could only watch the shares plummet.
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
New York Magazine ran a story on cancel culture in high school, but failed to disclose that the author used a tale from her child's school, contorting the piece  —  In the impoverished ecosystem of contemporary print media, New York magazine has styled itself as a venue for rigorous, often wry, and overtly left-leaning journalism.
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney CEO Bob Chapek gets a three-year contract extension, through 2025, in a unanimous board decision  —  Chapek has led Disney since February 2020.  —  The Walt Disney Co. is sticking with Bob Chapek.  —  The CEO, who took over from the well-liked Bob Iger just a month …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku adds eight NBC local news channels to the Roku Channel for free, its first local news offering, and plans to add more channels in the coming months  —  Roku is thinking local: In the streaming platform's first local news programming pact, Roku is adding eight NBC local news channels …
Newmark J-School:
CUNY's Newmark J-School names Graciela Mochkofsky, who launched its bilingual master's program in 2016, as dean starting on August 1, succeeding Sarah Bartlett  —  Graciela Mochkofsky, who has distinguished herself as a journalist, author, and academic in two languages on two continents …
Adèle Cordonnier / New York Times:
A look at HugoDécrypte and Gaspard G, two French YouTubers whose newscasts are popular among young people, an audience that increasingly shuns traditional media  —  YouTubers in the country are finding success by delivering political content to an audience that tends to shun traditional media.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
After the UK's National Union of Journalists rejected Reach's 3% pay rise, the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, and hundreds of local newspapers face strike action  —  Reach, which also owns titles such as the Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, has offered 3%
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
CAA closes its acquisition of talent agency ICM Partners following the DOJ's approval in a deal valued at $750M, reducing the Big Four agencies to the Big Three  —  The deal, which Variety has learned is valued at $750 million, giving a pro-forma valuation of $5 billion to the merged agency, was first announced in September 2021.
Michael Malone / Next TV:
Endangered, a documentary chronicling a year in the lives of four journalists in countries where press freedom has been considered a given, premieres today  —  Film about the challenges facing journalists worldwide premieres June 28  —  Endangered, a documentary about the perils facing journalists around …
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Tim Baysinger / Axios:
Omdia research: the US is expected to lose 16.9M pay TV subscribers between 2021 and 2027, while India loses 3.4M, Brazil 2.3M, Canada 2.2M, and Germany 2M
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

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