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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer — The former Disney executive Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles, the former Hearst content chief, are being given a minority stake in the digital tabloid.
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Disney plans old-style TV channels within Disney+, with a continuous, scheduled stream of shows that are focused on certain genres like Star Wars — In television, what's old is new again. After more than a decade of growth in streaming services that make viewers click on shows they want to watch …
Laurence Peter / BBC:
Russia's Ministry of Justice labels BBC Russian correspondent Ilya Barabanov and science reporter Asya Kazantseva as “foreign agents”; both now live abroad — The Russian justice ministry has labelled two prominent journalists - BBC Russian correspondent Ilya Barabanov …
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Winston Cho / Hollywood Reporter:
Rust movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez is sentenced to 18 months in prison in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted last month for her role in the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
CNN axes King Charles, its weekly one-hour primetime show launched in fall 2023 by Chris Licht with hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley, due to low ratings — The CNN weekly prime time talk show co-hosted by basketball loudmouth Charles Barkley and CBS morning star Gayle King has ended a six-month run that failed to produce ratings.
Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
New Zealand's Stuff Group signs a deal with WBD to provide WBD's New Zealand TV channel with a 6PM daily news program; WBD plans to close Newshub on July 5 — New Zealand media site Stuff Group said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Mozilla and CheckFirst: Apple, Google, Meta, and others' ad transparency efforts are a work in progress, months after the EU's DSA mandated a searchable library — Efforts by tech giants to be more transparent about the ads they run are — at very best — still a work in progress …
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Mozilla Foundation, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice” — Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
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Fast Company, @baekdal, @sapna, Avi Hakhamanesh on LinkedIn, @kateconger, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and Digital Journal, more at Techmeme »
Byron Kaye / Reuters:
Two studies find Facebook blocking news in Canada could undermine political discourse by increasing user engagement with opinion and non-verified content — Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
PressPad, which arranged housing for interns in London by asking established journalists to offer up their spare rooms, starting in 2018, is shutting down — “While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”
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@presspaduk
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with Jina Moore on resigning as volunteer EIC of Guernica after staff revolted over an essay by Israeli writer Joanna Chen, Guernica's politics, and more — Jina Moore Ngarambe is a veteran reporter who was East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, among other assignments.
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@davidfolkenflik
Max Tani / Semafor:
The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario — The Scoop — The Intercept, the left-wing U.S. newsroom that's been a thorn in Joe Biden's side and a hub for pro-Palestinian coverage …
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