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6:00 AM ET, July 22, 2024

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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Australian Financial Review Editor-in-Chief Michael Stutchbury plans to step down after 13 years, as AFR owner Nine Entertainment cuts 200 jobs to save $30M  —  Publication's longest-serving editor calls time amid unrest at Nine Entertainment over job cuts and and latest pay offer
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
A profile of John Paul Vranesevich, the owner and only full-time reporter for the Beaver Countian who beat the national media on a Donald Trump shooting scoop  —  The owner of the Beaver Countian is the western Pennsylvania news site's only full-time reporter.
Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller:
Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out  —  Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge …
Sam Buckingham-Jones / Australian Financial Review:
Google has quietly renewed deals with Australian outlets, sources say as year-long deals, worth tens of millions of dollars under the News Media Bargaining Code  —  Google has been quietly renewing deals worth tens of millions of dollars with Australian publishers under the News Media Bargaining Code …
Discussion: Mumbrella
Wei Xing / International Journalists' Network:
A look at China Fact Check, an independent group of volunteer fact checkers of international news reports for Chinese audiences operating exclusively via WeChat  —  False information is especially widespread in China due to government censorship, the country's pervasive Great Firewall …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Hunter Biden drops his lawsuit against Fox News over its “mock trial” miniseries about his overseas financial dealings, after filing it last month  —  Hunter Biden on Sunday abruptly dropped a lawsuit he filed last month against Fox News over the network's fictionalized miniseries …
Los Angeles Times:
LA County Sheriff's Department secretly investigated and urged the state AG to prosecute an LA Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies  —  For at least three years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department secretly investigated — and ultimately urged …
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
A year after the start of the double strike, SAG-AFTRA and WGA members, studio executives, and agents have mixed responses on whether the strikes were worth it  —  While some of the creatives that shut down the entertainment industry in 2023 say the fight was absolutely worth the sacrifice …
Selina Cheng / Columbia Journalism Review:
Selina Cheng says her editor told her that staff advocating for press freedom publicly would create a conflict with WSJ's reporting of the issue in Hong Kong  —  After 2019, as China tightened its grip on Hong Kong and mass protests gripped the city, police raided the Apple Daily …
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Connor Mycroft / South China Morning Post:
Media orgs, WSJ union, and a congressional panel express support for Selina Cheng, who says WSJ fired her for assuming Hong Kong Journalists Association's chair
BBC:
A Russian court convicts Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentences him to 16 years in prison; the Wall Street Journal calls the trial a “sham”  —  US journalist Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison on espionage charges, after a secretive trial decried as a “sham” by his employer.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the Republican National Convention's final night averaged 25.38M US viewers over 14 outlets, up 7% from 2020; people 55+ were about 72% of the audience  —  Thursday's multi-network coverage beats the final night from four years ago, but the four-day average is lower.
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
AAP: in May, book sales rose 10.9% YoY, after an 18.3% gain in April, and adult fiction digital audio sales rose 24.1% YoY; sales rose 5.5% YoY for January-May  —  Despite a string of dispiriting developments—including the ongoing restructuring of Hachette Book Group, the collapse …
 
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Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
A Manhattan judge sets a tentative date for Harvey Weinstein's retrial for November 12, 2024, after Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned in April
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A study of 14K domains used in the C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma datasets finds a dramatic drop in content available to train AI models as publishers tighten access
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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Amazon's Twitch reinstates Donald Trump's account three years after he was banned, as “there is value in hearing from presidential nominees directly”
Discussion: Rolling Stone and The Verge
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record:
Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens”
 

 
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New York Times:
Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more

Eva Hartog / Politico:
A profile of Pavel Durov's older brother Nikolai, who is reportedly still in Russia and is responsible for Telegram's encryption standard MTProto protocol

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates on X are posting “engagement bait”
 
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