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4:45 PM ET, July 31, 2023

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Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Sources: Disney hired Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, two ex-executives seen as potential successors to Bob Iger during his first stint as CEO, as advisers to Iger  —  Disney has hired two former executives who were seen as potential successors to Bob Iger during his first stint as the company's chief executive …
New York Times:
Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made “troubling and baseless claims” to hurt Twitter and its ad business  —  The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …
Matthew Keys / Fierce Wireless:
Amazon will require streaming services on Fire TV to give 30% of their ad impressions to Amazon, or in certain countries share 30% of ad revenue, from Sept. 1  —  Amazon will soon require international app developers who offer ad-supported streaming video services available to Fire TV users …
Max Tani / Semafor:
The campaign for the US presidency is playing out across an unprecedented, fragmented new media landscape, confusing voters and political observers alike  —  The News  —  Did you catch Ron DeSantis's interview with Shawn Ryan?  How about Tim Scott's latest hit on Faithwire, or Joe Biden's chat with Will Arnett and Jason Bateman?
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models  —  More popular than Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci among AI artists, Greg Rutkowski opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Content licensing organization NLA Media Access says it helped get around 700,000 stolen news articles removed in 2023 so far globally, up from 30K in 2022  —  Content farmers appear to be “getting a bit more brazen”.  —  Copyright theft affecting news publishers in the UK and around the world is …
Discussion: @pressgazette
Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Media 2070's director Collette Watson on shifting cultural conditions three years after its launch, advocating for media reparations, and more  —  In 2020, a group of Black staffers at Free Press—a nonprofit that advocates for diverse, independent media ownership and equitable access …
Discussion: Free Press
Deadline:
A look at potential mediators in the Hollywood strikes: CA Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered the main choice, LA Mayor Karen Bass, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff  —  Names that have been floated as potential mediators include Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and even Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff …
Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West's account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won't be eligible to monetize it, and ads won't appear next to his posts  —  West won't be eligible to monetize his account, and ads won't appear next to his posts  —  X, the social-media platform formerly known …
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. Discovery reorganizes and restructure its advertising sales division, with dedicated executives for specific holding companies  —  WBD is reorganizing its ad sales leadership with executives dedicated to specific holding companies. … On Monday, the company unveiled its new structure …
Adam Chitwood / The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA defends its “interim agreement” approach that lets indie productions proceed, as some actors push back, saying the agreement would prolong the strike  —  The letter to members comes as actors like Sarah Silverman have spoken out against working during the strike
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Ampere Analysis: ad tiers from Netflix, Disney, and others have collectively crossed 100M users in the US; 90%+ of Hulu subscribers are on its ad-supported tier  —  Ad-supported streaming tiers from Netflix, Disney and others have collectively surpassed 100 million users in the United States …
Discussion: Media Play News
 
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Jessica Lucas / HuffPost:
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Alissa Quart / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Financial Times:
Maoyan: cinemas in China increased showings of Barbie from 9,673 on July 21 to ~36,000 on July 27, in a market dominated by patriotic and male-led action films
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Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
Internal Meta emails: Facebook removed content about COVID-19 under pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
A profile of Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, considered by lawmakers, CEOs, and activists as an essential guide for what's happening in tech
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A US district judge dismisses Trump's defamation suit against CNN for using the term “Big Lie”; Trump's lawyers said the phrase linked him with Adolf Hitler
Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
Profile of Theo Baker, a college student who grew up in a family of journalists and whose reporting contributed to the resignation of Stanford's president
 

 
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