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6:55 AM ET, August 6, 2024

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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Jennifer Jacobs, the Bloomberg News reporter fired for allegedly breaking Russian prisoner swap story embargo, suggests she didn't decide to publish prematurely  —  Bloomberg News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs shot back at the news outlet on Monday after she was fired …
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Email: Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait says the outlet has taken disciplinary action against those involved in breaking the Russia prisoner swap embargo
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
A US federal judge rules Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and Google's exclusive agreements enabled it to raise prices on that product  —  A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing:
FAST channels NEWSnet and SportsNewsHighlights, owned by Manoj Bhargava's Bridge Media, abruptly shuts down, resulting in the layoffs of 80 employees  —  Manoj Bhargava at a NewsNet desk.  (NewsNet.)  —  The strangeness around former Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group and its majority owner …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so  —  Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
CBS News names Adrienne Roark as president of editorial and newsgathering and Jennifer Mitchell as president of stations and digital, as part of a restructuring  —  Roark will be president of editorial and newsgathering, and Mitchell will be president of stations and digital
Max Tani / Semafor:
The WSJ's explosive report from January 2024 about UNRWA's alleged links to Hamas were based on Israeli intel reports that the WSJ has been unable to confirm  —  In January, The Wall Street Journal made an explosive claim: Quoting “intelligence reports,” the paper reported that not only had 12 members …
Richard A. Webster / Nieman Lab:
A Louisiana law that went into effect last week makes it a misdemeanor for reporters or anyone to be within 25 feet of a police officer after being ordered back  —  “You can't even get an officer's badge number at 25 feet.  So there's no way to hold anyone accountable."
Discussion: @richardawebster and Boing Boing
Bart Meijer / Reuters:
The European Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw and not replace TikTok Lite's “Task and Reward Programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA  —  ByteDance's TikTok has agreed to permanently withdraw its TikTok Lite rewards programme from the EU to comply …
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interviews with news executives and editors about running split newsrooms, as the Washington Post builds a “third newsroom”  —  When split newsrooms work, and when they falter  —  In 2011, I attended an advertising conference that seemed like a rather workaday affair …
Amy Seal / Press Gazette:
A look at three independent London local news outlets: Enfield Dispatch, Havering Daily, City Matters; the free Enfield Dispatch has a print distribution of 15K  —  Press Gazette research has charted the retreat of legacy media publishers from London with large swathes of the UK capital now unreported.
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Crooked Media Workers Union members stage a one day walkout after more than a year of contract negotiations with the network behind Pod Save America  —  The progressive media company, which is home to the podcast ‘Pod Save America,’ has been in negotiations with the union for more than a year.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:   A look at tension at Crooked Media, which produces and releases 14 podcasts, amid staff turnover, an unfair labor practice claim, and big pre-election workloads
 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Red Ventures sells CNET, an early pioneer of online tech coverage, to Ziff Davis, which owns Mashable, PC Mag, and other brands, a source says for $100M+
Financial Times:
Sources: WBD looks to avoid breaking up the company by offloading smaller assets, such as selling Polish broadcaster TVN or a stake in WBD's gaming business
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BuzzFeed issues a “cease and desist” to Trending Now, which uses AI to aggregate B2B stories, accusing the startup of copyright infringement with its logo
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Michael Dixon / Awful Announcing:
The Boston Globe issues a correction and apologizes for incorrectly calling Olympic boxer Imane Khelif “transgender” in a headline in its Friday print edition
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
Sources: Huw Edwards's image and voice are being urgently removed from hours of BBC archive footage, starting with family and entertainment content on iPlayer
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Trump withdraws from the September 10 ABC debate, citing his legal conflicts with ABC and Biden ending his campaign, and pitches a September 4 Fox News debate