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7:30 PM ET, July 29, 2024

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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Podcasting is becoming an industry of megastars with huge deals and the biggest audiences; Edison: the top 25 podcasts reach nearly 50% of US weekly listeners  —  The top shows are adding video, merchandise and live tours and signing megadeals with Spotify, Sirius and Amazon.
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Sources: several Nikkei boardmembers push for consideration of a sale of the Financial Times as they have grown impatient with its economic performance  —  But first... 🗞️ Will the Financial Times head to the block?:  Might the FT, the august salmon-hued internationalist business broadsheet, eventually hit the market?
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Twitch remains unprofitable a decade after Amazon's acquisition; Docs show Twitch generated ~$667M in ad revenue and $1.3B in commerce revenue in 2023  —  The live-video service has slowing user growth, and workers are expecting more layoffs, changes ahead
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Diamond Sports Group and Comcast reach a carriage deal to restore 15 RSNs to Xfinity Ultimate TV subscribers on August 1, ending a three-month blackout  —  Bankrupt regional sports network operator Diamond Sports Group has reached terms with Comcast on a carriage deal restoring 15 RSNs to Xfinity pay-TV systems.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Some popular sites like Condé Nast's titles and Reuters.com modified robots.txt to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names  —  Hundreds of websites trying to block the AI company Anthropic from scraping their content are blocking the wrong bots …
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George Hammond / Financial Times:
Freelancer.com, iFixit, and others say Anthropic's crawler has aggressively scraped their websites, potentially breaching their terms of service
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Thelma, Longlegs, and Civil War are some of at least a half a dozen independent films to break out at the box office in 2024, a much needed boost for the sector  —  The decline of the independent film business has been a major concern among Hollywood producers and executives in recent years.
Discussion: @lucas_shaw and Dexerto
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
WBD says Max and Discovery+ have pulled in more unique viewers in the first two days of the Paris Olympics than in the entirety of the Tokyo games in 2021  —  In just two days, Warner Bros. Discovery's Max and Discovery+ streaming services pulled in more unique viewers for the Paris Olympics …
Deadline:
Nielsen and Adobe Analytics: the Paris Olympics opening ceremony drew 28.6M viewers on NBC and Peacock, up 60%+ from Tokyo, plus 666K on Telemundo Deportes  —  Good news for NBCUniversal: The Paris Olympics are off to a great start with a big win out of Friday's Opening Ceremony.
Reuters:
Russia's state-run news agency TASS says the Olympic organizing committee revoked the accreditations of four of its journalists in Paris  —  Russia's state-run TASS news agency said the Olympic organising committee revoked accreditations for four of its journalists in Paris on Sunday …
Discussion: The Moscow Times and The Desk
Jay Peters / The Verge:
London Evening Standard:
Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards is charged with three counts of making indecent images of children; Edwards resigned from the BBC in April 2024  —  The former BBC newsreader has not appeared in public since allegations about his personal life were made in The Sun
 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A few newspaper companies, including Lee and Alden's MediaNews Group, are offering ad-free premium subscription tiers as privacy concerns grow
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Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Music industry group IFPI has been working to get Musi, a free streaming app that sources music from YouTube, removed from the App Store and weighs legal action
Discussion: Music Ally
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2
Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction
CBC News:
Canada's Postmedia plans to buy the SaltWire newspaper chain, which has been under protection from creditors since March, and hopes to close the deal in August
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD sues the NBA over the league's “unjustified” decision to sell a package of media rights to Amazon, to which WBD claims to have a “contractual right”