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12:45 PM ET, July 3, 2023

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping  —  Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
Alex Barasch / New Yorker:
A look at Mattel Films, part of US toy giant Mattel, which has licensed IP for 45 movies, starting with Greta Gerwig's Barbie, following similar moves by Hasbro  —  In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO.
Slate:
Uber whistleblower and former New York Times technology opinion editor Susan Fowler Rigetti has joined Slate's Future Tense as its new editor  —  Future Tense—which is a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and the think tank New America—is thrilled to announce its new editor is journalist …
Madison Czopek / Poynter:
Poynter's MediaWise Director says Twitter's Community Notes mostly fail to fight misinformation due to requiring a “cross-ideological agreement on truth”  —  An attempt to solve ‘the problem of biased fact-checkers’ has left most Notes unseen by public, fact-checking conference is told
Discussion: @caulfieldtim
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
DirecTV removes 159 Nexstar-owned stations, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, after the companies failed to reach a new distribution deal by the July 2 deadline  —  Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar Media Group channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A look at WBD CEO David Zaslav's unforced errors and unpopular plans to cut costs, some of which have been by adopted by rivals like Disney and Paramount Global  —  Warner Bros. Discovery CEO has made unpopular cuts and missteps while dealing with a heavy debt load and changing media landscape
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
City AM, a free London business newspaper, puts itself up for sale, and says it has an online readership of 1.8M to 2M per month and print circulation of 67,714  —  City AM, a free business-focused newspaper in London, is seeking a buyer as part of fundraising discussions, it announced Monday.
Discussion: The Guardian and Press Gazette
Peter White / Deadline:
Netflix starts streaming HBO's Insecure and says other shows, including Band of Brothers and The Pacific, will launch on its service as part of a deal with WBD  —  The HBO comedy drama launched on the streamer service earlier today, after Deadline revealed the surprising move last month.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom launches a broadcast standards investigations into GB News and Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV after receiving complaints about politicians serving as newsreaders  —  U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched broadcast standards investigations into TalkTV, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and GB News after receiving complaints.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
ITN appoints Debbie Ramsay, the commissioning editor for news and current affairs at Channel 4, as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons  —  Ramsay will take over the programme in the autumn.  —  ITN has appointed Debbie Ramsay as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons.
 
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New York Times:
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing expansion and concerns over an uneven playing field; BookScan says 100+ large BookTok authors had $760M in 2022 sales
McKenna Oxenden / New York Times:
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers
David Pierce / The Verge:
Ten years after Google killed Google Reader, the team that built the much-beloved RSS app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been
Associated Press:
Austria's Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest daily newspapers in the world, ends its print run after 320 years; a recent law change caused a sharp revenue drop
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Financial Times:
A profile of conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who is acquiring Lagardère, the parent of influential weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche
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
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
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