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2:10 PM ET, July 11, 2022

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Jennifer Orsi / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
The Herald-Tribune apologizes for publishing a guest column on its opinion page characterizing the white nationalist Proud Boys as just “caring school parents”  —  To our readers:  —  The Herald-Tribune erred Sunday in publishing a guest column on our opinion page and website with the headline …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The Atlantic digitizes its print archive of more than 1,900 print magazines, dating back to 1857, available on the web and subject to its standard paywall  —  The library includes original writing from Twain, Hemingway, Plath and other authors  —  The Atlantic announced Monday morning …
Tom Jones / Poynter:
An interview with Phoebe Connelly, director of The Washington Post's Next Generation Audiences, which was launched to acquire younger and more diverse audiences  —  The job is to not only figure out how to reach new audiences now, but in the future when there could be platforms that haven't even been invented yet.
Clayton Davis / Variety:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences promotes VP of impact and operations Jeanell English to the newly created position of EVP, impact and inclusion  —  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has upped Jeanell English to the newly created position of executive vice president, impact and inclusion.
New York Times:
Over 300 bookstores have opened in the US in the past two years, and many have seen profits jump, in a surprising turnaround that has increased diversity  —  More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
NPD BookScan: total US print book sales were down 6.6% YoY in H1 2022 to 362.6M units, after soaring 18.9% YoY in H1 2021; adult nonfiction sales fell 10.3% YoY  —  After soaring 18.9% in the first half of 2021 over the comparable period in 2020, unit sales of print books retreated in the first half of 2022 …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Channel 4's privatization could be dropped by the UK's next prime minister, as several Conservative leadership candidates express doubts about the plan  —  As well as ambivalence among Conservative MPs towards the issue, there is uncertainty over what the caretaker government can do
Discussion: @eyeswideopen69 and @jamalmosman
Courtney C. Radsch / Center for International Media Assistance:
An analysis of government policies aimed at making Big Tech pay for news content and the implications for independent news outlets in low-income countries  —  KEY FINDINGS  —  As policymakers around the world consider how to rebalance the relationship between Big Tech and the news industry …
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Discussion: @sarahw
Alissa Wilkinson / Vox:
A Q&A with author Erich Schwartzel on the role China's market played in Marvel's rise, how Chinese censorship turned into Hollywood self-censorship, and more  —  Big Hollywood movies are being made with Chinese audiences in mind.  —  The big Hollywood movies you've seen on the big screen …
 
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Holly Rosewood / The Objective:
Q&A with The Objective co-founder Gabe Schneider on starting its newsroom, his introduction to journalism, defining objectivity, media criticism, and more
Vulture:
Showrunners for Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, Paramount+, and Prime Video discuss the lack of metrics transparency and compare their experiences with linear TV
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to terminate the merger agreement, claiming that Twitter didn't provide the relevant business info he requested
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The NFL's Roger Goodell confirms that streaming service NFL+ will launch this season and says the league will pick a Sunday Ticket streaming partner by the fall
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WWE's Vince McMahon agreed to pay $12M+ over the past 16 years to four women formerly affiliated with WWE, over sexual misconduct and infidelity claims
Chelsea Curtis / Arizona Republic:
Arizona makes it illegal for people within 8 feet of law enforcement activity to record police, except for those involved; Gannett and others opposed the bill
Agence France-Presse:
Rappler says Maria Ressa has lost her appeal against a conviction for cyber libel but the news website says it would “avail of all legal remedies available”
 

 
From Techmeme:

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

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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