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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sources: Disney and Hearst put A+E Global Media, home to A&E Network, History, and Lifetime, up for sale; it's unclear if it will be sold entirely or in part — Wells Fargo tapped to handle a sale process for the long-established brands jointly owned by Disney and Hearst
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports — A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them.
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the threats and harassment local reporters covering US extremism face and the importance of coverage of how extremists interact with their communities — The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it's still intensely personal.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
CNN relaunched its FAST channel CNN Headlines, which now features two hours of a new live, original show anchored by Brad Smith, last week — CNN last week quietly relaunched a new and improved version of its free, ad-supported (FAST) streaming channel called CNN Headlines, sources familiar with the effort told Axios.
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Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Politics reporters discuss handling reporting on interactions with aging Congress members who don't seem lucid and their spokespeople who edit their comments — A media conundrum for the age of gerontocracy. — A few weeks ago, my POLITICO colleague Nicholas Wu and NBC's Sahil Kapur ran …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Analysis: Mail Online is among major news brands most-impacted by Google's AI Overviews, with 68.8% of the top 100 keyword searches resulting in no site visits — Mail Online is among the most-impacted major newsbrands by the arrival of Google's AI Overviews, according to Press Gazette analysis of new Similarweb data.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Nation is expanding to include live sports for the first time through an exclusive Friday night broadcast partnership with Professional Bull Riders — The Fox News-owned streaming service will be the Friday night broadcast partner for PBR's Camping World Team Series.
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Swati Gupta / Bloomberg:
X says India ordered it to block 2,355 accounts, including two from Reuters, on July 3, but then told X to unblock the Reuters accounts after a “public outcry” — X raised serious concerns about India's media laws after the government ordered it to block thousands of accounts …
Andrew R. Chow / Time:
Moonvalley debuts Marey, its licensed AI video model, for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99 per month; ~80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers and agencies — The relationship between Hollywood and the AI industry is extremely fraught. Many filmmakers and industry workers abhor the idea …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A look at some options for fighting AI companies' scraping, including open-source Anubis' cryptographic JavaScript math challenges and Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth — For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight.
Rob Waugh / Press Gazette:
A look at UK radio news agency Radio News Hub, which served bulletins to seven radio stations 10 years ago and now serves 400, reaching a 2.3M weekly audience — The growing radio news agency supplies bulletins to 400 stations. — Changes in Britain's radio market and a shift away …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Oliver Darcy expands his Status newsletter by launching a podcast and videocast called Power Lines, and says Status is approaching 85,000 paid and non-paid subs — Now he's ready to see if it will translate to podcasting and video. — “Power Lines,” a new podcast and videocast based …
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