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7:35 AM ET, July 10, 2023

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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 …
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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
Discussion: Barrett Media and @alexbruell
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”  —  Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has held urgent talks with the BBC's director general after a presenter was accused …
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news  —  The error-filled story about Star Wars movies and TV shows demonstrates why artificial intelligence shouldn't be involved in news-gathering, reporters said
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 …
Giacomo Tognini / Forbes:
Marina Berlusconi and Pier Silvio Berlusconi each inherit ~26.5% in Fininvest, which owns 53% of publisher Mondadori and 49% of broadcaster MediaForEurope  —  The former prime minister and media mogul died at age 86 in June.  The unsealing of his will revealed how much his five children …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
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 …
The Guardian:
Colleagues of Cameroonian radio host Martinez Zogo investigate whether a dossier that brought media tycoon Jean-Pierre Belinga's downfall led to Zogo's murder  —  A dossier of bank slips detailing suspect payments of millions of dollars handed to the journalist brought the downfall of a political upstart in Cameroon.
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The Washington Post hasn't had a full-time daily cartoonist since Tom Toles retired in October 2020, and largely demoted political cartoons on its opinion pages  —  The Washington Post's opinion pages were never particularly good, so the fact that they have devolved into a sad …
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 …
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  —  The features will arrive this fall.  —  It's probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are.
 
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