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9:15 AM ET, August 5, 2024

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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  —  Some employees feel their progressive ideals aren't reflected in the workplace at one of the most prominent liberal media outlets
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  —  “The editing lapse is regretful and unacceptable”  —  Paris, France; Imane Khelif (ALG) reacts after defeating Anna Luca Hamori …
Advanced Television:
Parks Associates: 46% of US households own at least one streaming media player, while 68% own a CTV; Roku makes the most popular player, followed by Amazon  —  Parks Associates' has released its Tech Ecosystem Dashboard revealing Roku is the most popular brand of streaming media players in the US, followed by Amazon.
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  —  Trending Now accused of copyright infringement with its logo.  —  Buzzfeed has issued a “cease and desist” …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Music streaming has exited its high-growth era, as big streaming services pick up fewer new subscribers, causing revenue shortfalls for music labels  —  Investors worry the industry has peaked.  Label bosses preach patience.  —  Hollywood is warming up to the promise of artificial intelligence.
Max Tani / Semafor:
The WSJ's explosive report from January about UNRWA's alleged links to Hamas were based on Israeli intel reports 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 …
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Josh Noble / Financial Times:
How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation  —  NBC and Eurosport among those using ‘creators’ to spur interest and reach wider audiences  —  Sandra Kwon's life …
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  —  The Harris campaign said Saturday that it would be “happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to …
Eric Deggans / NPR:
A look at the impact of Trump's NABJ convention visit, from a longtime member: good exposure for NABJ, revealing quotes, and rising division among NABJ members  —  CHICAGO — At first, it felt like watching a slow-motion car crash.  —  I wasn't actually in the room when Donald Trump brought …
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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
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  —  Broadcaster removes image and voice from content as Welsh organisations erase disgraced presenter from websites
 
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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
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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