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The NYT announces plans to disband its sports desk and rely on coverage from The Athletic online and in print; NYT sports journalists will move to other roles — Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of The Athletic's publisher, David Perpich, who helped the NYT grow into games, cooking, and more, as he tries to make The Athletic profitable by 2025 — David Perpich, cousin of publisher A.G. Sulzberger, was an architect of the subscriber bundle of games, a cooking app, the Wirecutter and sports-media site the Athletic
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
In a letter, the New York Times sports staff asks leadership about their future amid concerns of closing the section and merging The Athletic into the newspaper — The New York Times sports department sent a pointed letter to the newspaper's leadership Sunday asking for answers about the future …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material — Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The chief content officer role has become increasingly important in entertainment companies, helping smooth over issues when adapting IP across series and films — NBCUniversal's elevation of Donna Langley heralds a corporate leadership era that signals a top exec is needed …
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Sam Hancock / BBC:
In a letter to the BBC, a lawyer for the teen allegedly paid £35K by a BBC presenter for photos says the claims made in The Sun are “rubbish” — Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has held urgent talks with the BBC's director general after a presenter was accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photos.
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Kelly Jensen / BOOK RIOT:
A new MS law bans minors from accessing ebooks via Libby and other apps without parental permission; vendors must ensure no “obscenity” in books given to minors — Despite the age of consent in Mississippi being 16, no one under the age of 18 will have access to digital materials …
James Warrington / Telegraph:
Barb: Channel 4's audience share dropped to a record low of 4.48% in May, reaching 35.8M viewers, down from 39M+ YoY, as it attempts to transition to streaming — Broadcaster suffers fall in viewers as it attempts to transition to the streaming age — Gathered for dinner at a London hotel …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Former reporter Saima Mohsin sues CNN for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination, alleging CNN denied high profile on-air opportunities based on her looks — Saima Mohsin says she was disabled after reporting injury and told she did not have ‘the look’ for presenting
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Reuters:
The body of Mexican journalist Luis Martín Sanchez Iniguez has been found with signs of violence; another media worker has been missing since July 4 — The body of missing 59-year-old Mexican journalist Luis Martín Sanchez Iniguez was found in the Mexican state of Nayarit …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The Washington Post hasn't had a full-time daily cartoonist since Tom Toles retired in October 2020, and largely demoted political cartoons on its opinion pages — The Washington Post's opinion pages were never particularly good, so the fact that they have devolved into a sad …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Coverage of SCOTUS and Congress should be about the wielding of power, presented less as a game for insiders and more as an instrument affecting everyday people — In September 2016, Lorie Smith, a web designer in Colorado, and attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom …
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