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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says that he was “surprised” and “disappointed” after NBC leadership pulled his show on Monday — The MSNBC host returned to the channel Tuesday, saying he was “surprised” and “disappointed” by the decision to preempt his show Monday.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
MSNBC pulled Morning Joe on Monday, a source says due to worries that a guest might make an inappropriate comment about Donald Trump's attempted assassination — New York CNN — — MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday …
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Edward Segarra / USA Today:
The Daily Show scraps its on-the-ground reporting at RNC, citing “logistical issues and the evolving situation”, following the assassination attempt on Trump — “The Daily Show” is making some changes to its upcoming coverage of the Republican National Convention.
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Wall Street Journal:
Nullbulge, a hacktivist group critical of AI art, leaks Disney's alleged Slack messages over “how it handles artist contracts” and AI; Disney is investigating — ‘Hacktivist’ group critical of AI-generated art says it has obtained swaths of data from Disney's Slack channels, some of which it has published online
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Gabrielle Russon / Poynter:
A look at Fresh Take Florida, a University of Florida-run news service that shares content by its student journalists for free with ~100 outlets like CNN and AP — 'Frankly, they're doing the kind of digging and comprehensive work that the rest of us ought to be doing'
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Six journalists who worked at DCist, closed by WAMU earlier in 2024, launch the 51st, a worker-run local news site for DC, and a $250K fundraising campaign — The worker-run newsroom will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
UMG, Sony, and other record labels sue Verizon for $2.6B+ over allegations of violating copyright law by continuing to serve customers accused of pirating music — Lawsuit: One user's IP address was identified in 4,450 infringement notices. — Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Taboola's CEO says the company has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising within the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps; TBLA stock jumps 9%+ — - Taboola's effort to build trust with Apple across its various teams and stakeholders was “a multiyear process,'” Singolda said.
Pete Wells / New York Times:
Pete Wells steps down as the New York Times' restaurant critic after 12 years, citing the toll of the job on his health, but will stay at the paper — Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.
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Annie Gilbertson / Proof:
Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset that contained YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, NPR, and BBC — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data, but an investigation by Proof News found …
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Adam Crafton / New York Times:
FIFA launches an invitation to tender for media rights covering Americas, Asia, and MENA for its Club World Cup, effectively ending its proposed deal with Apple — FIFA has launched an invitation to tender for media rights covering the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East & North Africa regions …
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints — The News — President Joe Biden has lost the media. Even the most sympathetic outlets — the liberal MSNBC, the gentle NPR …
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