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5:30 PM ET, June 28, 2024

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Max Tani / Semafor:
The Wall Street Journal EIC Emma Tucker says she felt vindicated by the debate, after previously facing criticism for coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity  —  The News  —  Prominent liberal columnists are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside following a widely-panned debate performance …
Advanced Television:
JustWatch: Netflix led the UK streaming market in Q2 with a 28% share; Prime Video had 27%, Disney+ had 20%, Apple TV+ had 8%, ITVX had 6%, and Now TV had 6%  —  Netflix continues to hold the reins of the UK streaming market in Q2 2024 with Prime Video closely following behind a 1 per cent gap …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Spain's El Pais launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers  —  “The best reader is the one who reads you a lot.”  —  For years and with various levels of success, U.S. news outlets have tried …
Reuters:
In a parliamentary hearing, Meta says it is considering blocking news content from Facebook in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees  —  Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees …
The Guardian:
Three journalists were turned away from an Azerbaijan energy conference earlier in June, prompting concern over media access ahead of UN climate talks there  —  Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Tests show that ChatGPT is hallucinating URLs in some citations, directing users to broken links for at least 10 news publications with OpenAI licensing deals  —  Nieman Lab's tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
The White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference in August to “emphasize the Administration's commitment to creators”  —  President Joe Biden's administration is doubling down on its interest in the creator economy.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
CNN says the Biden-Trump debate was watched by nearly 48M viewers, based on early Nielsen Fast National numbers, with 12.6M in the key 25-54 age demographic  —  The early results are in, and CNN appeared to be the biggest winner from Thursday's train wreck of a presidential debate.
Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so  —  AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
Margaret Fleming / Front Office Sports:
A Los Angeles jury sides against the NFL in a Sunday Ticket antitrust trial, saying the league owes $4.7B+ to subscribers and $96M to bars and restaurants  —  A jury in Los Angeles sided against the NFL on Thursday in the Sunday Ticket trial that could cost the league billions.
Laurel Rosenhall / Los Angeles Times:
The California State Senate passes SB 1327, a bill aimed at imposing a “data extraction mitigation fee” on Big Tech to help fund local journalism  —  The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.
 
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Neil Griffiths / Mumbrella:
Nine CEO tells staff that around 200 jobs, ~4% of its workforce, will be cut, including up to 90 roles from Publishing and 38 from news and current affairs
Bloomberg:
Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:
Seven nonprofits including the Freedom of the Press Foundation file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional
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
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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
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
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
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind hacks in June and July of up to 165 Snowflake customers including AT&T

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market

Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG's office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG
 
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