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5:25 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
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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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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
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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