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Sherman Smith / Kansas Reflector:
Police defend their raid on Marion County Record in Kansas, saying the Privacy Protection Act doesn't apply when journalists are suspected of criminal activity — Police raided the Marion County Record office Aug. 11, 2023, with a search warrant that free press attorneys and advocates say violated federal law.
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Q&A with Marion County Record's owner Eric Meyer, who says his newspaper had been actively investigating the City of Marion Police Chief prior to the raids — Very few stories these days take my breath away, but this one did the trick: Cops in Kansas raided the office of local newspaper …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Internal memo: CBS News Co-Head Neeraj Khemlani, who oversaw shows like 60 Minutes, is stepping down to work on a multiyear first-look content deal with CBS — The headlines coming out of CBS News will soon be guided by a new executive. — Neeraj Khemlani, who arrived at the Paramount Global unit …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS names Wendy McMahon as president and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures, after Neeraj Khemlani stepped down to pursue a CBS production deal
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
CNN overhauls its morning, evening, and weekend programming with new hosts, including Abby Phillip in the 10PM weekday slot, aiming to lift sagging ratings — Abby Phillip, host of “Inside Politics Sunday,” will be the new anchor of CNN's 10 p.m. hour on weekdays.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
A look at publishers' legal fight against the Internet Archive's book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers' “full book catalogs” — In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix begins a “limited beta test” of its cloud-streamed games on the web, TVs, and streaming devices from Roku, LG, Amazon, and more, in Canada and the UK — Netflix is kicking off the first public tests of its cloud-streamed games. … In a blog post, Netflix VP …
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Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Source: CoinDesk lays off 20 people, or 45% of its editorial team, as its parent company, Digital Currency Group, pursues selling the outlet — - Crypto media company CoinDesk has reduced its workforce as parent company DCG's plans to bring in strategic investors.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Simplify Inventions plans to buy a ~65% stake in Sports Illustrated owner Arena Group; the deal includes a $50M investment and a five-year ~$60M ad commitment — Manoj Bhargava's Simplify Inventions will take a roughly 65% stake in the Arena Group — Manoj Bhargava, a businessman who founded …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
An interview with Barstool CEO Erika Ayers Badan, on the Penn deal, returning to “being comfortable on the edge”, building the site into a business, and more — As Penn pivots from Portnoy's brand of bro-ish excess to family-friendly ESPN, Barstool is free to be itself.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The New York Times is steering new subscribers away from buying a news-only subscription, leaning into pushing its All Access bundle of five consumer products — If you don't like the word “bundle”, don't listen in on a The New York Times earnings call. — In prepared remarks …
Megan Janetsky / Associated Press:
As the free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government YouTube and TikTok influencers grow their audiences, boosting President Nayib Bukele's reelection bid — Douglas Guzmán's TikTok feed was dotted with workout routines and videos showcasing his favorite parts of his country.
John Koblin / New York Times:
The pause in production of new shows due to the Hollywood strikes will let viewers catch up after the “Peak TV” era, when dozens of shows premiered each month — After years of being inundated with new shows, some are using a pause in production to finally watch all the stuff they missed when it came out.
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