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6:45 PM ET, July 4, 2024

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Samantha Waldenberg / CNN:
ABC News plans to air an interview with President Biden “in its entirety as a primetime special”, at 8pm ET on July 5; a transcript will also be available  —  The ABC News interview with President Joe Biden will now air “in its entirety as a primetime special” …
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
White House reporters say Biden's mental fitness could have been better covered pre-debate, particularly after the release of Robert Hur's report in February  —  President Joe Biden's White House repeatedly and aggressively shot down reports on the president's age and any possible limitations …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Analysis: Biden has held fewer press conferences and media interviews than any of the last seven US presidents at this point in their terms  —  - Biden's media engagement is especially contrasted with former President Trump, who despite demonizing the press, was often willing to talk.
Paul Vieira / Dow Jones Newswires:
Netflix, Disney, and other US streaming companies ask a Canadian court to block imposition of a fee of 5% of sales to help finance local news and other content  —  OTTAWA—Netflix, Walt Disney and other U.S. streaming companies have asked a Canadian court to stop plans by authorities to force …
BBC:
Investigation: a fake news network tied to an ex-Florida sheriff, now in Moscow, appears to be targeting US and UK voters; some Congress members shared posts  —  A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation …
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
ElevenLabs will use AI-generated voices of dead actors like Judy Garland and Burt Reynolds in its Reader app, thanks to deals with the actors' estates  —  Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you'll soon be able to hear …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Skydance reached a preliminary deal to pay $1.75B for National Amusements and agreed to a 45-day period where other Paramount bidders can make offers
Rand Fishkin / SparkToro:
Datos: 58.5% of Google searches in the US and 59.7% in the EU result in no clicks; for 1,000 searches, 360 clicks go to the open web in the US and 374 in the EU  —  Over the past decade, I've done several reports with multiple clickstream panels analyzing Google search behavior at scale.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real time content, fediverse, and more  —  Programming note: With this post, we now go on a short summer break.  See you back here July 15.  —  A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world.
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025
Alex Williams / New York Times:
Rob Stone, a founder of influential music magazine The Fader, which focuses on hip-hop and alternative rock, died on June 24 at age 55  —  A founder of the influential music magazine The Fader, he also bridged the worlds of hip-hop and the Fortune 500 with his innovative marketing agency.
NBC News:
A profile of Mississippi Today's Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anna Wolfe, who could go to jail for not revealing her sources in Gov. Phil Bryant's lawsuit  —  “The rabbit's got the gun now,” said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
 
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Rodney Ho / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Local news outlet Decaturish is sold to family-owned Appen Media, which runs weekly papers in the northern Atlanta suburbs; founder Dan Whisenhunt will remain
The Narwhal:
Leaked recording: a TC Energy executive claims its communications team “packaged” a February 2024 WSJ editorial blasting Biden's natural gas policy
Andrea Hsu / NPR:
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements set to take effect on September 4, and plans to rule on August 30
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Telegram rolls out the ability for creators to share paid content to channels using its Stars digital currency and for channels to convert Stars to Toncoin
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Brad Stone, editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, which moved to monthly circulation, says print may make a comeback as readers want “distraction-free luxury”
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Reddit users: Netflix is phasing out its cheapest $11.99/month ad-free tier for existing subscribers as planned, pushing its $6.99, $15.49, and $22.99 tiers
Dan Gillmor:
Journalists need to reject formulas that have made them ineffective, like presenting “both sides”, after the SCOTUS ruling giving presidents unrestricted power
Tim Wu / New York Times:
Judges have allowed First Amendment free speech rights to be hijacked to suppress the sovereignty of humans in favor of the power of companies and machines
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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