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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
The White House asked news outlets to hold their stories on the prisoner swap until Evan Gershkovich and others were in US custody, an embargo Bloomberg broke — How did Bloomberg beat The Wall Street Journal and the rest of the press corps on one of the most-watched stories in the world …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
RFE/RL says it plans to use the “relationships and expertise” developed in its efforts to free Alsu Kurmasheva to free three non-American RFE/RL journalists — Two weeks ago, Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was jailed last year in Russia …
New York Times:
The US DOJ sues TikTok, saying it collected children's data without parents' permission, knowingly let users under the age of 13 create accounts, and more — The Justice Department said that TikTok illegally collected children's data and knowingly allowed users under the age of 13 to create accounts.
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The Canadian Press:
Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians' total engagement with news content on social media is down 43% — Canadian news struggling after Meta ban: study — MONTREAL - A new study is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news outlets …
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New York Times:
Docs and sources: The News Movement, a social media-first outlet, has slashed revenue expectations and is in talks to sell a controlling stake to Antenna Group — The Washington Post is creating a division to find valuable audiences in new places. The C.E.O.'s last company shows that's a tough road.
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Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
GameStop shuts down Game Informer, the oldest gaming magazine in the US, and lays off staff; launched in 1991, it was among the last print gaming magazines — Game Informer, the longest-running gaming magazine in the U.S., is officially dead and GameStop killed it.
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Animation Magazine:
WBD plans to shut down Boomerang, its standalone streaming service for classic cartoon brands, on September 30, and move both content and subscribers to Max — Warner Bros. Discovery announced today that the standalone video streaming app and website for its Boomerang service …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
How three journalists used tools including the Wayback Machine, Airtable lists, Dropbox links, and scrapers to save their work, as news sites shut down — From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
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@internetarchive and TVNewsCheck
Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
ChatGPT is citing DNyuz as an authoritative and original source, but DNyuz is a notorious pirater of news for copy-pasting articles from the NYT, AP, and others — Back in June, The New York Times published a fascinating investigation by its award-winning tech reporter Kashmir Hill …
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@thezedwards, @matdryhurst and @parismarx@mastodon.online
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
A bankruptcy court approves Barnes & Noble's $1.83M acquisition of Denver's Tattered Cover bookstores, which will be B&N's first US deal for an indie bookstore — On July 30, a federal bankruptcy court approved Barnes & Noble's acquisition of Tattered Cover, setting the stage …
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Denver Gazette, @bsiegel1201, @tfrei, @tatteredcover, @tatteredcover and Publishers Weekly
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
OverDrive, which helps libraries and other organizations lend digital catalogs, is integrating its video streaming service Kanopy with its other collections — With the demand for digital content surging in libraries and schools, OverDrive this week announced the formation of a newly configured Content Group.
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Axios:
NABJ President Ken Lemon says Trump's Q&A was delayed because he threatened not to take the stage if he was going to be fact-checked — - “[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? … - At the time, President Trump blamed the delay on audio problems.
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