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2:00 PM ET, July 1, 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 …
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 …
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 …
David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP agreed to extend the current film and TV contract, set to expire June 30, to July 12 to allow for continued negotiations on a new deal  —  UPDATED with joint statement: SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers agreed Friday to extend …
Financial Times:
A profile of conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who is acquiring Lagardère, the parent of influential weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche  —  Having created a French version of Fox News, he now has one of the country's most influential newspapers in his sights
The Moscow Times:
Reports: Yevgeny Prigozhin shuts down Patriot Media Group, and Roskomnadzor blocks several of its news outlets; Prigozhin has not confirmed or denied the claims  —  Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has closed down his St. Petersburg-based media holding, according to multiple media reports published Friday.
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
WBD, Disney, Netflix, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid off or lost DEI leaders in the past 10 days, raising “diversity fatigue” concerns  —  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Execs From Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Netflix and the Academy were either laid off or left their jobs in the past 10 days
Discussion: @25thcenturygirl, Variety and Deadline
 
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson made a “pejorative and prejudicial” reference to Meghan Markle's sex in a column in The Sun, which must publish a front-page statement
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
Discussion: The Guardian
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
Discussion: 9to5Mac
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
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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
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