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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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 …
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Dan Misener / Bumper:
Study of Spotify's podcast recommendations finds white noise episodes are among top recs and 14% of recommended episodes are Spotify originals and exclusives — I've long been interested in Spotify's podcast recommendation system, mostly because it uses a different strategy than its competitors.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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