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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC has discussed giving the 10pm hour to local TV stations to program every day as a cost-cutting move, given broadcast TV's declining popularity — Network has discussed giving 10 p.m. hour to local station partners, a cost-cutting move as interest in broadcast TV wanes
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Kirk McKeand / USA Today:
USA Today updates its article alleging Amazon is buying EA, saying that Amazon is not expected to bid and USA Today's partner GLHF violated sourcing standards — Editor's note (10:37 a.m. ET): Earlier today, GLHF — a gaming/e-sports outlet and content partner of For The Win …
Twitter:
Twitter rolls out podcast integration into its redesigned Spaces Tab, starting with some English-speaking users globally on iOS and Android — Twitter helps people connect with unique and compelling voices around the world. With podcasts, we're taking that connection to a whole new level.
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Alex Kirshner / The Atlantic:
Streaming has made watching sports more expensive and more annoying than ever as games are fractionalized across different platforms — Few things are more satisfying for a certain type of college-football fan than a Notre Dame loss, and all the better if it's an upset.
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Constance Grady / Vox:
A look at the long-term consolidation in book publishing and the arguments in the antitrust case against the Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger — The Justice Department is suing to block Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster's proposed merger. The publishers' defense hinged on their own incompetence.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Dominion Voting deposes Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, Steve Doocy, and high-level Fox producers in its Fox News defamation lawsuit — The depositions are one of the clearest indications yet of how aggressively Dominion Voting Systems is moving forward with its suit against the media company.
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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
The White House issues guidance to agencies to update policies by 2026 to make publicly funded research papers available to all, without embargoes or paywalls — Remembering Aaron Swartz — Fourteen years after the late Aaron Swartz published his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto calling …
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Queenie Wong / CNET:
Meta made 68 “newsworthiness allowances” from June 2021 to June 2022 for content that may have violated Facebook or Instagram rules, letting the pieces stay up — Queenie Wong is a senior writer for CNET News, who focuses on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok.
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Liv Moloney / INMA:
The Economist's head of social media discusses how the magazine is reaching new audiences on Instagram, where two-thirds of its 5.8M followers are aged 18 to 34 — Instagram is a busy, visual platform. To its users, “news” can mean anything from holiday photos or the arrival of a baby to a product launch.
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Josh Schafer / Yahoo Finance:
FanDuel plans to launch a US sports cable TV network, FanDuel TV, in September, along with a streaming app, FanDuel+, which will be free for FanDuel users — FanDuel (PDYPF) is launching a first-of-its-kind nationally distributed television network, FanDuel TV, the company announced on Thursday.
The Nation:
The Nation names Chris Lehmann, the former editor of The New Republic and The Baffler, as its Washington, DC, bureau chief; Lehmann starts on August 29 — With decades of experience, the former editor of The New Republic and The Baffler joins at a crucial juncture in advance of the midterm elections …
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Reuters:
The proposed takeover of media outlet NDTV in India by the conglomerate of Gautam Adani, Asia's richest man, sparks concerns about its editorial independence — For years Indian television company NDTV (NDTV.NS) pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism.
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, @adityakalra, Reuters and TBI Vision
Ron Charles / Washington Post:
The Washington Post is relaunching its standalone book section in print on September 25, 2022, after cutting it on February 15, 2009 — Barnes & Noble is stuck in a public relations mess that it seems unable to clean up. A number of middle grade and YA authors claim that America's largest bookstore chain …
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