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Anthony Lin / Bloomberg:
Fox Corp's chief legal and policy officer, Viet Dinh, plans to step down on December 31, 2023, and become a Fox adviser, after the $787.5M Dominion settlement — - Viet Dinh is departing as Fox chief legal and policy officer — Fox paid $787.5 million to settle suit over vote-fraud claims
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Angela Yang / NBC News:
Major outlets including TMZ, Insider, and the Los Angeles Times had to walk back their reporting about the alleged death of child rapper Lil Tay and her brother — A post on Lil Tay's Instagram account announced her death. A day later, it was removed. — Lil Tay's life has always been shocking …
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Representatives for the WGA and AMPTP met on Friday; source: the talks were more productive than the earlier meeting, and the sides plan to meet again August 15 — Negotiators for film and TV writers met with studio representatives on Friday afternoon, a step that could represent …
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a strike resolution soon — “Organizations indispensable to the creation of media are cutting staff... and in some cases, even risk closing,” the Hollywood Professional Association writes
Sherman Smith / Kansas Reflector:
Police raided the Marion County Record's office, authorized by a local judge, and the publisher's home, seizing equipment after the paper ran a critical article — Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions in his newspaper office Friday after police seized computers, servers, cellphones and other items.
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
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Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
NBCUniversal signs a multiyear deal to let EverPass distribute Peacock's exclusive live sports content to bars, restaurants, and other commercial establishments — The financial terms underpinning the multiyear pact were not disclosed. — The partnership will serve to expose Peacock's …
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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Stacy Feldman / RJI:
A look at the Colorado pop-up community newsroom that emerged after the Marshall Fire in April 2021, resembling efforts in Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Canada — We're building a guide to help newsrooms fill voids in deep-dive reporting with their communities
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Herbert J. Siegel, a billionaire entertainment industry mogul who enabled the 1989 Time Warner merger and sold 10 TV stations to News Corp. in 2000, dies at 95 — As head of Chris-Craft Industries, he played a role in the Time-Warner merger and sold 10 television stations to Rupert Murdoch.
Ty Rushing / Iowa Starting Line:
Ron DeSantis' campaign bars two reporters of Courier Newsroom's Iowa Starting Line from an Iowa campaign event on Friday; no other media outlets were excluded — Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign team today contacted law enforcement in an attempt to prohibit Iowa Starting Line reporters from covering …
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