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4:45 PM ET, July 17, 2024

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Hong Kong Free Press:
Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng says she was fired by The Wall Street Journal for taking up the position of chair of the Hong Kong Journalist Association  —  American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has fired Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks she was elected chair …
Tim Reynolds / Associated Press:
The NBA's Board of Governors approves the league's next media rights deals with Disney, NBC, and Amazon Prime Video; WBD could still match one of the deals  —  The NBA's Board of Governors approved the league's next media rights deals with Disney, NBC and Amazon Prime Video at its meeting Tuesday …
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Mike Vorkunov / New York Times:
Sources: the WNBA's media rights deals mirror the NBA's, and the league is set to get at least $2.2B over 11 years or $200M/year, up from the current ~$50M/year  —  The WNBA's next national media rights package has come into shape.  The league is set to receive roughly $2.2 billion …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Sources: WBD will lay off ~1,000 employees across sectors including finance, business affairs, and production; source: fewer than 10 Max staffers are affected  —  Sources tell Variety that nearly 1,000 employees will be laid off across a few sectors in a new cost-cutting move at WBD …
Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
MSNBC insiders accuse executives Cesar Conde and Rashida Jones of pulling Morning Joe off the air to “coddle” Trump and avoid tensions if he wins the election  —  Tension skyrocketed at MSNBC this week as network news insiders accused NBCU News Group Chairman Cesar Conde …
Peter White / Deadline:
Emmy nominations numbers: Netflix took top spot with 107; FX, 93; HBO/Max, 91; Apple TV+, 72; ABC and CBS, 38 each; Prime Video, 37; Hulu, 26; and Disney+, 19  —  The revolving door of Emmy nominations leader continues to swing.  —  Netflix has taken top spot with the most Emmy nominations …
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU's General Court says TikTok is large enough to fall under the DMA, rejecting ByteDance's challenge; ByteDance can appeal to the European Court of Justice  —  - TikTok attempt to avoid EU's Digital Markets Act is dismissed  — Chinese-owned social media giant also risks ban in the US
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Source: PE firm CVC Capital Partners is considering a bid for the Telegraph, ahead of a deadline for the first round of auction of the newspaper group this week  —  Potential bid by CVC Capital Partners believed to be structured to back newspaper group's management team
Discussion: Telegraph
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
GB News plans to add AI-generated, 30-second sports updates at the end of the main news bulletins on GB News Radio, as the broadcaster expands sports coverage  —  GB News says it will introduce AI-generated sports news bulletins to its radio station, promising they are “the tip of the iceberg” …
Caroline Mimbs Nyce / The Atlantic:
Meta launches a small pilot program to let some researchers access Instagram data for up to about six months to study the app's effect on teens and young adults  —  Meta, infamous for kicking researchers off its platform, flirts with slightly more transparency.  —  The teens are on Instagram.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
BBC Head of Product for iPlayer and Video Ankit Kumar leaves; a source says he left abruptly, and the product team is having a “turbulent time” as execs leave  —  Ankit Kumar joined the BBC in October 2022 from Amazon and played a key role in making iPlayer a destination for more than 17M British viewers every week.
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security

Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023
 
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