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5:05 PM ET, July 10, 2023

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New York Times:
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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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
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
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
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 …
James Gregory / BBC:
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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Sam Hancock / BBC:
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”
Wes Davis / The Verge:
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 …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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 …
Discussion: The Wrap and @alexweprin
Rachel Ohm / Press Herald:
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.
Discussion: Media Nation and @vapaolella
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
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.
Clarrie Feinstein / Toronto Star:
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.
Discussion: Reuters
Kelly Jensen / BOOK RIOT:
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 …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
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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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google confirms an ongoing issue with Google News indexing, which is affecting all sites and may cause a decrease in traffic from the aggregator to publishers
James Warrington / Telegraph:
Barb: Channel 4's audience share dropped to a record low of 4.48% in May 2023, reaching 35.8M viewers, down from 39M+ YoY, as the company moves to streaming
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Audible names Rachel Ghiazza as its chief content officer, effective immediately; Ghiazza most recently served as the company's EVP and head of US content
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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitch plans to launch ephemeral Stories in October 2023 and a Discovery Feed featuring a personalized mix of streamers' clips this fall, both in its mobile app
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements

Richard Spencer / The Times:
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become a superstar in China with tourism around his origin story, as DeepSeek proves an unexpected boon for President Xi

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Google's Gemma 3 and Cohere's Command A, which require just one or two Nvidia AI chips to run, hint at an industry-wide push for more efficient AI software
 
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