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The Marion County attorney withdraws the search warrant that served as the basis for the raid on the Marion County Record; all seized items have been returned — MARION, Kan. — A search warrant that cleared the way for the raid of a Kansas newspaper last Friday has been withdrawn …
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Joann Meyer, who worked for nearly 60 years at the The Marion County Record in Kansas, died on August 12, a day after police searched the newspaper's offices — She collapsed a day after the police raided her home and the offices of The Marion County Record, a weekly paper in Kansas.


Google adds AI-powered article summaries for free articles, not paywalled ones, to its Search Generative Experience and says publishers can block the feature — Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE) …


Conservative radio host Glenn Beck says all podcast episodes of The Glenn Beck Program “have been removed from Apple/iTunes with no explanation” — Commentator Glenn Beck's entire show was removed from Apple's podcast network on Wednesday, allegedly without warning or explanation.
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Filing: The NYT has joined tech companies fighting California's children's online safety law, saying it harms First Amendment rights of minors and news outlets — The Scoop — The New York Times Company is joining tech companies in an attempt to block a new children's online safety law …
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AP releases guidance on how it uses generative AI tools and updates its stylebook, saying that AI output should be treated as unvetted source material — Weeks after announcing a partnership with OpenAI, The Associated Press urges caution in using — and reporting on — generative AI tools.
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SoundExchange sues SiriusXM to recover ~$150M in unpaid royalties and late fees, dating back to 2018, owed under the Copyright Act for using sound recordings — SoundExchange, the top digital royalty collection and distribution agency for the music industry, has filed a lawsuit against SiriusXM …
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NPR names Eva Rodriguez as its VP and executive editor in charge of its global news operations; Rodriguez was previously the EIC of nonprofit The Fuller Project — NPR has named veteran newsroom leader Eva Rodriguez as its next vice president and executive editor, a role that will put …
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Iran sentences Saeed Roustayi to six months for making and screening his film Leila's Brothers at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival; he will serve about nine days — Celebrated Iranian director and screenwriter Saeed Roustayi has been sentenced to six months of correctional imprisonment …
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The Authors Guild, the American Booksellers Association, and the Open Markets Institute urge the DOJ and the FTC to investigate Amazon's book market “monopoly” — The online retailer's size and sway affects the free exchange of ideas, the groups argue.
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A female Afghan journalist recounts leaving Kabul after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, as she reflects on life as a journalist in exile — At 8:30 one August morning two years ago, I was at home in the Pul-e Surkh area of Kabul when my sister called.
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Russia expels Eva Hartog, Politico Europe's reporter in Moscow, after 10 years reporting in the country, without giving any details on how the ruling was made — As Putin escalates crackdown on foreign media, longtime correspondent Eva Hartog is forced out by the Kremlin.
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@mariageorgieva, @polinaivanovva, @jason_corcoran and Al Jazeera


X files a motion to dismiss a June 2023 copyright lawsuit filed by the US National Music Publishers' Association over the alleged infringements of ~1,700 works — Unlike rivals like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, X - the Elon Musk-owned social media service formerly known as Twitter …
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Some users of X Pro, formerly TweetDeck, see an X Blue paywall when trying to use the tool; on July 3, X said that X Pro would be subscriber-only “in 30 days”
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