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3:15 PM ET, July 3, 2023

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
DirecTV removes 159 Nexstar-owned stations, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, after the two companies didn't sign 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.
Alex Barasch / New Yorker:
A look at Mattel Films, part of US toy giant Mattel, which has licensed its IP for 45 movies, starting with Greta Gerwig's Barbie, after Hasbro's similar moves  —  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 joins 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 Institute's MediaWise director says Twitter's Community Notes mostly fails to fight misinformation by 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
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, like “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the strategy with ad executives at Cannes Lions  —  US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year  —  Netflix will develop increasingly targeted …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load  —  Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
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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
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
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A look at WBD CEO David Zaslav's major missteps and unpopular cuts, some of which rivals like Disney and Paramount Global adopted, while dealing with heavy debt  —  Warner Bros. Discovery CEO has made unpopular cuts and missteps while dealing with a heavy debt load and changing media landscape
New York Times:
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales  —  As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Ampere: Disney+ Hotstar remains India's streaming leader, with ~50M subs in Q1 and a 29% share, despite losing IPL cricket rights; Prime Video has 12.4M subs  —  Disney+ Hotstar lost the rights to offer Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket last year, but the streamer remains India's market leader, according to Ampere Analysis.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
ITN appoints Debbie Ramsay, Channel 4's commissioning editor for news and current affairs, 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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Peter White / Deadline:
Netflix starts streaming HBO's Insecure and says other shows, like Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Ballers, will come to its service as part of its WBD deal
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
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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:
Vienna-based Wiener Zeitung, one of the world's oldest newspapers, ends its daily print edition after 320 years; a recent law change caused a sharp revenue drop
Financial Times:
A profile of conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who is acquiring Lagardère, the parent of influential weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche