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5:55 PM ET, June 30, 2023

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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
ESPN lays off on-air commentators, sources say affecting ~20 personalities, including top NBA game analyst Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, and Keyshawn Johnson  —  ESPN is laying off some of its biggest stars in a purge that is expected to result in around 20 on-air personalities being let go Friday …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg settles her lawsuits against Fox, Tucker Carlson, and several executives for $12M; she had called Fox a toxic workplace  —  Abby Grossberg, who worked on Tucker Carlson's and Maria Bartiromo's shows, said she was harassed and set up to be a scapegoat in the Dominion defamation suit.
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart  —  The house Joe Zawadzki built will be foreclosed.  —  AdExchanger has learned that the demand-side platform …
Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Canada may think Bill C-18 still has more room for negotiation, based on Meta's 2021 deal with Australia, but tech platforms no longer view news as valuable  —  On June 22, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act.  The new law, according to a government news release …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting all Twitter URLs to the sign in page  —  If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you may find you're unable to see any of the content …
Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Actors could join writers on strike as soon as June 30 at midnight PDT, but both sides are open to talking past the deadline for SAG-AFTRA's studio negotiations  —  Hollywood actors may be on the verge of joining screenwriters in what would be the first two-union strike in the industry …
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Unionized G/O media employees blast the company, which owns The Onion, Quartz, The Root, Deadspin, and more, over its plans to test AI-created content next week  —  “Cease [your] plans to litter our websites with AI-generated content,” unionized editorial employees at The Onion, Deadspin and The Root say
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify is talking to its partners about adding full-length music videos, as part of growing efforts to establish video as a core part of its service  —  Spotify Technology SA is considering adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the streaming service better compete …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
An Indian court dismisses Twitter's lawsuit against the government's content rules and fines the company ~$61K for failing to explain its delayed compliance  —  An Indian court has dismissed Twitter's lawsuit against the federal government that sought to challenge New Delhi's block orders on tweets and accounts.
Reuters:
Burkina Faso suspends LCI, saying the French TV news channel's April 2023 report on an insurgency lacked objectivity, the latest in its foreign media crackdown  —  Burkina Faso's military government has suspended a French television news channel for a report on a jihadist insurgency …
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Casey Hall / Reuters:
Chinese livestream shopping shifts from big discounts, as Apple and other brands seek control over a process made costly by a fragmenting market and superhosts
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Sources: Nexstar's WOOD-TV fires two news managers over a memo that urged covering “both sides” of Pride Month; two others were fired for leaks about the memo
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Two US authors file a proposed class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company trained ChatGPT on their works without consent, credit, or compensation
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera, who has been with the network since 2001, says he quit Fox News because he was “fired” from The Five
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad blocker users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off their tool or subscribe to YouTube Premium