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10:55 AM ET, August 24, 2022

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Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:
A DeSantis and Vance rally barred reporters from interviewing attendees not approved by organizers and claimed a right to use any recordings for promotional use  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely presidential candidate in 2024, scheduled a trip to Ohio Friday to stump for Senate candidate J.D. Vance …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
An analysis by NYT's union finds that Black and Latino staffers are far less likely than their white peers to receive strong job ratings, affecting bonuses  —  A survey of roughly 1,000 The New York Times employees conducted by members of the union that represents its newsroom found that Black …
Adam Kovacevich / Chamber of Progress:
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would support Breitbart, Newsmax, and hedge funds; other bills may help local journalism without paying for hate  —  Bill would require Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft to pay and link to right-wing news  —  Congressional Democrats are in array.
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Maria Curi / Bloomberg Government:
Sens. Klobuchar and Kennedy release the revised Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, including addressing copyright and an eight-year negotiating window
Michaela Whitbourn / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lachlan Murdoch files a defamation suit against Crikey over an article that called the Murdochs Trump's “unindicted co-conspirators” after the January 6 riots  —  Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size  —  News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch has filed defamation proceedings …
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Capitol Music Group severs ties with FN Meka, a virtual “robot rapper” powered partly by AI with 10M+ TikTok followers, after backlash over racial stereotypes  —  The record company apologized to “the Black community” for insensitivity in promoting an AI-backed artist that critics said was …
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
Sources: Soumya Sriraman, who led Amazon's US Prime Video Channels business, steps down after two years; Sriraman was formerly the CEO of BritBox  —  Soumya Sriraman, the former BritBox CEO who joined Amazon to lead its Prime Video Channels business in the U.S., is stepping down after two years at the SVOD.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India's richest man, Gautam Adani, acquires a ~29.18% stake in NDTV using decade-old options and plans to acquire another 26%; NDTV says it did not give consent  —  Adani Group said Tuesday it will buy a majority stake in NDTV, a high-profile Indian news organization, in an apparent hostile takeover …
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
iHeartMedia launches iHeartLand, its first virtual world, on Fortnite, with plans to host concerts, album release parties, and more  —  The in-game effort, which includes a main stage and mini-games, will kick off with a Charlie Puth concert on Sept. 9.
Discussion: RadioInsight
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
UK broadcaster ITV plans to launch its ITVX streaming service in November, replacing the ITV Hub  —  ITVX, the upcoming streaming platform from U.K. broadcaster ITV, will launch in November.  —  ITV managing director for media and entertainment Kevin Lygo confirmed the launch date during …
Terry Tang / Associated Press:
The ACLU and at least 10 media organizations sue Arizona over a new law that bans the filming of police officers within 8 feet without an officer's permission  —  A controversial Arizona law restricting how the public can film police faced its first legal challenge Tuesday with a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Privacy group noyb files a complaint in France claiming Google breached the EU's ePrivacy rules on direct marketing by failing to gain consent for Gmail ads  —  Google is facing a fresh privacy complaint in Europe over ads it inserts into its Gmail email service in the guise of emails.
Discussion: Reuters and noyb.eu
 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Giles Turner / Bloomberg:
Yandex announces a deal to offload its controversial news aggregator and a blog to social network VK in exchange for VK's food and grocery service Delivery Club
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Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

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Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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