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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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Axios, The Wrap, TVLine, The Daily Beast, ComingSoon.net, New York Post, @jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu, Variety, @maxwelltani, New York Times, @ryanjthomas83, Page Six, @brianstelter, @rolandsmartin, @nh_homebrewer, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, @nycsouthpaw, Washington Examiner, @ngrossman81, @doughenwood, @esaagar, Fox News, @michaeldsgro, @ted_scheinman, @austinahlman, @wajahatali, @heerjeet, @dkthomp, @dominiccampbell, @vinodsreeharsha, @will_bunch, @byronyork, @jeffjarvis, @brianstelter, @markjacob16, @gbbranstetter, The Desk, @lailaalarian, @kenklippenstein, Mediaite, Breitbart, Deadline and @sauthoff.bsky.social
Tom Jones / Poynter:
A look at the coverage of the assassination attempt on Trump, including top networks and outlets providing hours of reporting with no errors or controversies
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
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CBS News, @thedailyshow, ABC News, Variety, @theharryshearer, Washington Post, The A.V. Club, WTMJ, Los Angeles Times, IndieWire, New York Post, Breitbart, The Hollywood Reporter, New Republic, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Associated Press, HuffPost, Next TV, LateNighter, The Wrap, Hartford Courant, Deadline and NPR
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets
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MediaPost, @elonmusk, CNN, Mediaite, @daithaigilbert, @lindayax, @elonmusk, Fast Company, @fredericlambert, @maxwelltani, @bcmerchant, @michaelscherer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @aidnmclaughlin, @lawrencehurley, @ericnewcomer, @jayrosen_nyu, @tysonbrody, @binarybits, @binarybits, @drjbhattacharya, @x, Washington Post, @reckless1280@threads.net, @renee.diresta@threads.net, @willoremus@threads.net, @blakersdozen@threads.net, Wired and Breitbart
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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Los Angeles Times, Engadget, Breitbart, Hackread, ComingSoon.net, Dexerto, Advanced Television, Cord Cutters News, @campuscodi, @h4ckmanac, @h4ckmanac, Variety, The Hill, Reuters, The Wrap, CNN, Wired, Gene Chuang on LinkedIn, Deadline, IGN, @jbflint, The Verge and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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 — Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data …
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@benlovejoy, @neilturkewitz, @mkbhd, @juliaangwin, @juliaangwin, @mkbhd and 9to5Mac
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
A Moscow court sentences Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen to eight years in prison in absentia for spreading “false” information about Russia's military — A Moscow court on July 15 sentenced Russian-American journalist, writer, and outspoken Kremlin critic Masha Gessen …
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Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, New York Times, The Moscow Times, Committee to Protect … and Semafor
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'
Discussion:
Silas Joseph Morgan on LinkedIn
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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: DAZN will pay €400M/year for the rights to show the majority of France's Ligue 1 matches, while Qatar-owned beIN will spend €100M for one game per week — Accord with DAZN and BeIN helps stave off financial crisis at some clubs but locks in a lower price than first expected
Discussion:
Broadband TV News and Advanced Television
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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 …
Discussion:
The Guardian, @semaforben, @michaelkruse, @johnspurlock, @mattyglesias, @jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social and Mediaite
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
PA Media Editor-in-Chief Pete Clifton says he is stepping down at the end of 2024, after joining the UK's national news agency in 2014 from MSN — The agency chief will step down from full-time work after 43 years in journalism. — PA Media editor-in-chief Pete Clifton has revealed …
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Pete Clifton on LinkedIn, @domponsford, @domponsford and @domponsford
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