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Wall Street Journal:
Source: President Trump's team expects Paramount to make an eight-figure “allocation” for ads, PSAs, and other broadcasts that support conservative causes  —  Concerns about bribery allegations, angry CBS News staff and a looming high-stakes merger made for tense monthslong negotiations
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16M to settle his 60 Minutes lawsuit, stating the money will go to his future presidential library, without offering an apology
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount faces a backlash for settling with Trump; Democrat FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says it “marks a dangerous precedent for the First Amendment”
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WGA East, which represents CBS News writers, says the Paramount settlement is a “transparent attempt to curry favors” with Trump to get Skydance merger approved
Deadline:
Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract  —  The TV personality's high-rated daytime Dr. Phil show ended a 21-year run after the 2022-23 season although it lived on in syndication.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Crunchyroll blames a third-party vendor for AI-generated subtitles, with errors and references to ChatGPT, and says it is working to rectify the error  —  At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was “very focused on testing” …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities not to comply …
Benjamin Lindsay / The Wrap:
Memo: HFPA members voted to oust President Helen Hoehne from her role and also ejected her from its board, as members aim to reverse HFPA's 2023 dissolution  —  Hoehne, who oversaw the organization through boycotts over diversity and its Eldridge acquisition, was also ejected from its board of directors
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
ITV names Daniel Robinson the editor of Good Morning Britain, ahead of the program's transition to being produced by ITN; he was GMB's deputy editor since 2021  —  Robinson will be at the helm as GMB moves production to ITV News at ITN next year.  —  Daniel Robinson has been named …
Discussion: Mirror
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, the old system, and more  —  The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news  —  Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Sandy Gall, an ITN presenter for 20 years and war correspondent who covered Vietnam, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan, and more, has died at age 97  —  For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television's “News at Ten.”
Steven McIntosh / BBC:
The BBC says future music performances deemed high risk won't be aired or streamed live; Bob Vylan and six others had been labeled high risk before Glastonbury  —  The BBC had deemed Bob Vylan “high risk” before their controversial Glastonbury set on Saturday, the corporation has said.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60+ game-based productions were in development in 2024  —  With more than 3.5 billion gamers worldwide, the video game industry is a ripe area for companies to spend their ad and marketing dollars on a large, captive audience.
 
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Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Google pulls 352 apps from the Play Store that were part of an ad fraud scheme behind 1.5B daily bid requests and whose estimated impact is in the seven-figures
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Jorge A. Aguilar / How-To Geek:
Amazon is shutting down its Freevee app in August, but its content will remain on Prime Video, whether or not users have a Prime subscription
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root
 

 
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53

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Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product
 
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