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The NYT announces plans to disband its sports desk and rely on coverage from The Athletic online and in print; NYT sports journalists will move to other roles — Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.
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A profile of The Athletic's publisher, David Perpich, who helped the NYT grow into games, cooking, and more, as he tries to make The Athletic profitable by 2025 — David Perpich, cousin of publisher A.G. Sulzberger, was an architect of the subscriber bundle of games, a cooking app, the Wirecutter and sports-media site the Athletic
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In a letter, the New York Times sports staff asks leadership about their future amid concerns of closing the section and merging The Athletic into the newspaper — The New York Times sports department sent a pointed letter to the newspaper's leadership Sunday asking for answers about the future …


In a letter to the BBC, a lawyer for the teen allegedly paid £35K by a BBC presenter for sexually explicit photos says the claims made in The Sun are “rubbish” — Claims made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter scandal are “rubbish”, a lawyer representing the young person has said.
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The BBC suspends a presenter accused of paying a teen £35K for sexually explicit photos, contacted the police, and is working quickly “to establish the facts”
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Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material — Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each …
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The chief content officer role has become increasingly important in entertainment companies, helping smooth over issues when adapting IP across series and films — NBCUniversal's elevation of Donna Langley heralds a corporate leadership era that signals a top exec is needed …
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The National Trust for Local News, a US nonprofit, plans to acquire all Masthead Maine's assets, including five of Maine's six daily newspapers and 17 weeklies — The National Trust for Local News has agreed to purchase 5 of the state's 6 daily papers and 17 of its weeklies in an effort to preserve local journalism.
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To fight back against cord-cutting, Charter plans to offer a lower-cost programming tier without RSNs and league-owned networks in Q3, likely for $10/month less — The nation's second-largest cable operator has developed a new programming model to deal with the regional sports network crisis.
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Postmedia Network, the publisher of the National Post and Toronto Sun, and Nordstar Capital, which owns Toronto Star and Metroland Media, call off merger talks — Talks called off due to regulatory and financial uncertainty around the deal and because parties were unable to agree on terms.
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Coverage of SCOTUS and Congress should be about the wielding of power, presented less as a game for insiders and more as an instrument affecting everyday people — In September 2016, Lorie Smith, a web designer in Colorado, and attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom …
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A new Mississippi law bans minors from accessing ebooks without parental permission; vendors must ensure every book offered to minors does not have “obscenity” — Despite the age of consent in Mississippi being 16, no one under the age of 18 will have access to digital materials …


Former CNN reporter Saima Mohsin sues the broadcaster for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination, alleging CNN denied her high-profile on-air opportunities — Saima Mohsin says she was disabled after reporting injury and told she did not have ‘the look’ for presenting
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