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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
DirecTV removes 159 Nexstar-owned stations, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, after the companies failed to reach a new distribution deal by the July 2 deadline — Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar Media Group channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.
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Alex Barasch / New Yorker:
A look at Mattel Films, part of US toy giant Mattel, which has licensed IP for 45 movies, starting with Greta Gerwig's Barbie, following similar moves by Hasbro — In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO.
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Slate:
Uber whistleblower and former New York Times technology opinion editor Susan Fowler Rigetti has joined Slate's Future Tense as its new editor — Future Tense—which is a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and the think tank New America—is thrilled to announce its new editor is journalist …
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@michellemanafy and @susanthesquark
Madison Czopek / Poynter:
Poynter Institute's MediaWise director says Twitter's Community Notes mostly fails to fight misinformation by requiring a “cross-ideological agreement on truth” — An attempt to solve ‘the problem of biased fact-checkers’ has left most Notes unseen by public, fact-checking conference is told
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@caulfieldtim
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
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@kailashconcepts, @thatkirstylang, @mhbergen, @pkedrosky and @mayazi
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
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Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A look at WBD CEO David Zaslav's major missteps and unpopular cuts, some of which rivals like Disney and Paramount Global adopted, while dealing with heavy debt — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO has made unpopular cuts and missteps while dealing with a heavy debt load and changing media landscape
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@jbflint, @benmillermke, @davidclinchnews, @wsj, @jbflint, @jbflint, Above the Line and The Verge
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, like “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the strategy with ad executives at Cannes Lions — US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted …
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The Streamable and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A look at Geraldo Rivera's scandals and his career as a muckraking local TV news journalist turned award-winning and self-promoting network star — Geraldo Rivera has been a constant showman at Fox News for nearly a generation. Now, the curtain is falling.
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The Wrap, @davidgura and @davidfolkenflik
New York Times:
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales — As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
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Tubefilter, @ingloriousgigi, @kdcaseywrites, @loradeets, @anderscorr, @ratlpolicy, @magnifymedia and Insider, more at Techmeme »
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Ampere: Disney+ Hotstar remains India's streaming leader, with ~50M subs in Q1 and a 29% share, despite losing IPL cricket rights; Prime Video has 12.4M subs — Disney+ Hotstar lost the rights to offer Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket last year, but the streamer remains India's market leader, according to Ampere Analysis.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom launches broadcast standards investigations into GB News and Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV after receiving complaints about politicians serving as newsreaders — U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched broadcast standards investigations into TalkTV, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and GB News after receiving complaints.
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Press Gazette, Financial Times, The Messenger, Broadband TV News, The Guardian, Deadline and Bloomberg
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
ITN appoints Debbie Ramsay, Channel 4's commissioning editor for news and current affairs, as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons — Ramsay will take over the programme in the autumn. — ITN has appointed Debbie Ramsay as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons.
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