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12:45 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  —  Two weeks ago, Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was jailed last year in Russia …
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 …
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.
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Vladimir Kara-Murza, one of the journalists released after being held by Russia, wrote some of his Pulitzer-winning WaPo columns from Moscow's detention center  —  The Russian journalist, author and opposition politician won a Pulitzer Prize for columns written at a Moscow detention center.
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Wall Street Journal:
A detailed timeline of Evan Gershkovich's arrest and release and the months of negotiations involving spy agencies, billionaires, politicians, and his mother
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ Editor Emma Tucker thanks the Biden administration, other governments, especially Germany's, and Evan Gershkovich in the effort to release him and others
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.
Discussion: @internetarchive and TVNewsCheck
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.
Variety:
About 500 actors and other SAG-AFTRA members picketed outside WB Games in Burbank over contract protections for workers amid the growth of AI  —  In a replay of last year's strike, hundreds of actors picketed Thursday outside WB Games in Burbank, demanding protection from artificial intelligence.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A US district court judge throws out a jury verdict ordering the NFL to pay $4.7B+ to Sunday Ticket subscribers, finding the verdict was unsupported by evidence  —  The NFL got a major call overturned: A federal judge Thursday threw out a jury's $4.7 billion award to subscribers …
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  —  In their first responses to the sweeping copyright lawsuits that could define AI music, lawyers for Suno and Udio don't exactly hold back.
 
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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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A US appeals court blocks the FCC's reinstatement of net neutrality rules, saying broadband providers are likely to succeed in a legal challenge
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Roku reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $968.2M vs. $935.3M estimated, a net loss of $33.95M vs. $107.6M in Q2 2023, and 83.6M streaming households, up 2M from Q1
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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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