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10:00 PM ET, August 2, 2024

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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
Michael Wilner / The Miami Herald:
McClatchy announces intent to merge with magazine publisher and distributor accelerate360, which publishes Us Weekly and is owned by Chatham Asset Management  —  McClatchy, one of the oldest and largest local media companies in the United States, plans to merge with accelerate360 …
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.
Madison Malone Kircher / New York Times:
Over a dozen participants in MrBeast's Beast Games competition said they received inadequate food or medical care and some people were injured during challenges  —  The contestants in the internet star's “Beast Games” expected outlandish challenges and signed contracts that acknowledged risks of serious injury and death.
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.
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 …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown says Jeff Bezos should “look very carefully” at whether Will Lewis should remain WaPo CEO amid Murdoch tabloid lawsuits  —  Gordon Brown, the U.K. former prime minister, believes that Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids hacked …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon MGM Studios names Colin Jost as host of its new Jeopardy spinoff show, Pop Culture Jeopardy; production starts in September
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
A US appeals court blocks the FCC's reinstatement of net neutrality rules, saying broadband providers are likely to succeed in a legal challenge
Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Court filings: AI startups Suno and Udio respond to copyright lawsuits from major music labels, saying their use of proprietary music to train AI is fair use