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10:55 AM ET, June 27, 2024

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Jed Rosenzweig / LateNighter:
Paramount has shut down its Comedy Central website, which held The Daily Show clips and the full run of The Colbert Report, after its shutdown of MTV News' site  —  First on LateNighter: One of the richest repositories of late-night videos is no longer.  —  ComedyCentral.com had been home …
Brian Stelter / The Atlantic:
A look at WaPo's leadership issues under Jeff Bezos, as his hands-off approach and selection of publishers left the paper without a long-term strategy  —  How the world's greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch  —  If you want to understand the current crisis at The Washington Post …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time strikes a multi-year content licensing deal with OpenAI; Time will gain access to OpenAI's tech and tools to develop new products  —  - It also gives the AI giant access to Time's real-time content to help answer user queries as news unfolds.  — Under the agreement …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming  —  The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming so subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can stream a variety of games directly to Fire TV devices.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sewell Chan, EIC of The Texas Tribune, is named executive editor of CJR; Tribune managing editor Matthew Watkins will become EIC when Chan departs in September  —  He joins after leading The Texas Tribune for three years.  —  Sewell Chan, the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune …
Gene Park / Washington Post:
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games Leanne Loombe on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more  —  I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited.  “Ooo, what about?  Which show?”
Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine:
Two groups of Sandy Hook families disagree on whether Infowars' parent company FSS should go into bankruptcy or whether they should take control of FSS assets  —  In 2021 and 2022, two sets of families of the 20 children murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting won separate defamation suits against Alex Jones.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6%  —  WATCH NOW  —  It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.
 
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Andy Roberts / GolfMagic:
Caffeine TV, a streaming platform that has been carrying LIV Golf's content, announces it is shutting down due to a lack of profitability
Zak Butler / The Keyword:
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinfo campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans several social networks to target geopolitical rivals
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adult content platform Slushy raised $10.2M in seed funding and says it reached 1M users and grew its creator base by 40% to 10,000 in Q1 2024
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms in the First Amendment case of Murthy v. Missouri
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a Russian Court for the start of his closed-door trial on espionage charges, which he denies