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2:45 PM ET, July 25, 2024

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New York Times:
Doc: Rupert Murdoch wants to change his family trust to ensure Lachlan Murdoch stays in charge of the media empire; three other siblings are fighting the move  —  Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family's irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force.
Kendra Barnett / The Drum:
Publicis Groupe announces it will acquire Influential, the world's largest influencer agency by measure of revenue; Influential has a network of 3.5M+ creators  —  News of the acquisition comes just one week after the holding company posted impressive Q2 results.
David Gilmour / Mediaite:
The AP removed a fact check debunking the claim that JD Vance admitted he had sex with a couch; AP said the post didn't go through its standard editing process  —  The Associated Press removed its fact-check debunking the claim that former President Donald Trump's running mate Senator JD Vance …
Bloomberg:
Together, the NBA's deals with Disney's ESPN and Comcast's NBC are expected to generate $76B over 11 years, with Amazon paying about $1.8B annually  —  The National Basketball Association announced new long-term TV contract with Amazon.com Inc., spurning a last minute effort by Warner Bros. Discovery Inc …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NBA declines WBD's effort to join the set of rights packages built for Amazon, Disney, and NBCUniversal, saying WBD's proposal did not match Amazon's offer
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WNBA's deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon, which is reportedly worth ~$200M/season, includes more national telecasts and an increased global reach
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1  —  Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site.  “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1 …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit
Daysia Tolentino / NBC News:
Longtime Mr. Beast collaborator Ava Kris Tyson leaves the YouTube channel after allegations of grooming; Tyson and the alleged victim denied the accusations  —  Tyson and the alleged victim denied the allegations.  —  Ava Kris Tyson, a longtime friend and collaborator of YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson …
Jorja Siemons / Bloomberg Law:
Ozy Media drops its lawsuit claiming Ben Smith used trade secrets from Ozy to create and launch Semafor  —  Ozy Media Inc. ended its lawsuit claiming journalist Ben Smith used trade secrets to create and launch the global news platform Semafor Inc.  —  Judge Frederic Block of the US District Court …
Discussion: @pressgazette
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A US judge rejects ABC News' motion to dismiss Trump's defamation suit filed after George Stephanopoulos said Trump was found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll  —  The litigation stems from a March 10 interview in which George Stephanopoulos, the network's star anchor, referred to a civil case brought …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Time Studios President Dave O'Connor on merging Time's branded content division with its in-house production company to make original content  —  The Marc Benioff-owned publisher merged its branded content division into its in-house production company as it looks to sell film and TV projects to networks and studios.
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The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads
John Otis / Washington Post:
Lewis Lapham, the editor who revived Harper's magazine in the 1980s by publishing writers including David Foster Wallace and Barbara Ehrenreich, dies at 89
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