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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Analysis: the 2026 Emmy nominations for acting and hosting hit an 11-year low with only 22 performers of color recognized, down 21% from the nominees in 2025 — The number of 2026 Emmy nominees from diverse backgrounds in the actor, actress, reality and game show host categories fell to an 11-year low of 22 this year.
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Peter White / Deadline:
HBO Max received 122 Emmy nominations, Netflix landed 111, Disney received 111 overall, Apple scored 87, its most-ever, and Amazon landed 39 for Prime and MGM+
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Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the media's evolving coverage of sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner shows the need for sensitive, patient reporting — In Me Too coverage, timing is everything. — Back in April, Susie Banikarim wrote for CJR about Cheyenne Hunt …
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A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
NYT introduces The Local: Twin Cities, a pilot newsletter with original reporting, a goal of promoting local outlets, and an August launch date — “The Local” marks the latest step in the publisher's push to deepen regional coverage and engage its customer base
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Q&A with Joe Kahn about NYT's push into video amidst a “race against time” to compete with AI-generated slop and influencer-generated non-original journalism — Remember pivot to video? — For those of you who weren't paying attention to the media industry a decade ago …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CAA calls out Meta over Muse Image and Muse Video's opt-out policy, which lets users generate new content from public Instagram profiles that don't opt out — “No one's name, image, likeness, voice, or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear …
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Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:10 minutes ago
How the internet, smartphones, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer written works like books, as social media spikes — twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world's written works.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:25 minutes ago
USA Today CEO Mike Reed says the company is prepared to opt out of Google Search in the next 6 to 12 months because it has no licensing agreement with Google — The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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The Times of Israel:
Haaretz and Channel 12 offices were attacked in Tel Aviv this week; the Union of Journalists in Israel ties the vandalism to the Netanyahu government's rhetoric — Newspaper files police complaint, ups security at building in Tel Aviv; media organizations warn of escalating violence …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction “overbroad” — “Plaintiffs have no answer to the question this appeal presents: how can a locality-based theory of harm justify a nationwide preliminary injunction?”
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT and other outlets ask a court to sanction OpenAI for allegedly lying to the court about its inability to search its systems for copyrighted material — A group of newspapers including the New York Times (NYT.N) and New York Daily News asked a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday …
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Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: preliminary figures show 44.8M people in the US watched Mexico vs. England across Fox and Telemundo, beyond an estimated 42M for the US-Belgium game — That record-setting U.S. TV audience for the game between the U.S. and Belgium? Not so fast. — Preliminary audience numbers across …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount-WBD is set to emerge with ~$80B in debt, with net debt projected to equal ~6.5 times annual EBITDA, a level analysts consider high for a media company — Paramount CEO has promised not to sell off assets or cut content spending — When Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison unveiled …
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