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Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
How the NYT's Opinion section is becoming a pillar of the NYT's podcast strategy, which includes embracing video and brand-name hosts, like Wesley Morris — “Hold on, I'm going to show you something funny,” Wesley Morris says. The New York Times critic and I are deep into a conversation …
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
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.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire US streaming rights for Formula 1 following the success of F1 the Movie, which has grossed ~$300M at the box office — iPhone-maker is challenging Disney's ESPN to screen car series — Apple is in talks to acquire the US rights to screen Formula 1 …
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Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
A US appeals court revives a lawsuit against NSO Group by Salvadoran journalists allegedly targeted with Pegasus spyware after a district court's 2024 dismissal — A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a district court erred when it dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group …
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Bloomberg Law, CyberScoop and Knight First Amendment …
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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iPhone in Canada, Scripting News, MacRumors, Bluesky, Beebom, Thurrott, Tech Times, @caseynewton.bsky.social, Social Media Today, TechCrunch and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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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@davidclinchnews, The Streamable, Barrett Media, CNN, Deadline, Media Play News and NCS | NewscastStudio
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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Status, The Wrap, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social and Barrett Media
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 …
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Turner Classic Movies will have a co-management structure as WBD plans a split, with creative control under David Zaslav and operations under Gunnar Wiedenfels — As WBD prepares to split, creative control will stay with Zaslav's studio group while operations will continue at global networks
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@honudan.bsky.social and @kevdgrussing.bsky.social
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.
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announces a major newsroom reorganization, which includes staff layoffs — In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announced a major newsroom reorg/cuts, merging credit/finance groups, legal/financial reg groups. “We have sadly had to say goodbye to some colleagues,” but Bloomberg will “end this year with a bigger newsroom than we started
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