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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
ESPN announces layoffs of on-air talent affecting, sources say, 20 personalities, including top NBA game analyst Jeff Van Gundy — 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 as the network hopes …
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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 …
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Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Actors could join writers on strike as soon as Friday at midnight PDT, as the deadline nears for SAG-AFTRA's negotiations with studios; talks could be extended — Hollywood actors may be on the verge of joining screenwriters in what would be the first two-union strike in the industry …
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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 …
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Unionized G/O media staffers 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
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The Moscow Times:
Reports: Yevgeny Prigozhin closes down his Patriot Media Group, and Roskomnadzor has blocked several of its news sites; Prigozhin has not confirmed the claims — Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has closed down his St. Petersburg-based media holding, according to multiple media reports published Friday.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify is in talks with partners to add full-length music videos to its app, as part of growing efforts to establish video as a core part of its app — Spotify Technology SA is considering adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the streaming service better compete …
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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.
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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 …
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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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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 — “After 23 years tomorrow Fox and Friends could be my last appearance,” he wrote alongside a video of him boating.
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