Mediagazer: Nielsen: the Biden-Trump debate drew an average audience of 51.3M viewers across 17 networks in the US, down from 2020's first debate, with nearly 73.1M (Michael Schneider/Variety)

Michael Schneider / Variety:

Nielsen: the Biden-Trump debate drew an average audience of 51.3M viewers across 17 networks in the US, down from 2020's first debate, with nearly 73.1M — Networks include CNN, which originated the debate, as well as ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Scripps News, Telemundo, Univision, BET …

Discussion: MediaPost, The Desk, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, @antonej@threads.net, @parkerortolani@threads.net, Nielsen, CNN, Washington Post, Matthew Keys on LinkedIn, Politico, CBS News, CNN, Washington Examiner, Deadline, @dylanbyers, @brianstelter and The Hollywood Reporter

Tim Marchman / Wired:

Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic — WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe's Assistant bot.

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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:

Spain's El Pais launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers — “The best reader is the one who reads you a lot.” — For years and with various levels of success, U.S. news outlets have tried …

Discussion: LatAm Journalism Review

Max Tani / Semafor:

The Wall Street Journal EIC Emma Tucker says she felt vindicated by the debate, after previously facing criticism for coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity — The News — Prominent liberal columnists are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside following a widely-panned debate performance …

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Examiner, @maxwelltani, New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Post, @semaforben, NewsNation, American Prospect, Fox News, New York Daily News, Associated Press, @semaforben, Politico, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and Forbes

The Guardian:

Three journalists were turned away from an Azerbaijan energy conference earlier in June, prompting concern over media access ahead of UN climate talks there — Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year

Discussion: @glynmoody@mastodon.social

Reuters:

In a parliamentary hearing, Meta says it is considering blocking news content from Facebook in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:

The White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference in August to “emphasize the Administration's commitment to creators” — President Joe Biden's administration is doubling down on its interest in the creator economy.

Discussion: Fast Company, MediaPost and Gizmodo

Advanced Television:

JustWatch: Netflix led the UK streaming market in Q2 with a 28% share; Prime Video had 27%, Disney+ had 20%, Apple TV+ had 8%, ITVX had 6%, and Now TV had 6% — Netflix continues to hold the reins of the UK streaming market in Q2 2024 with Prime Video closely following behind a 1 per cent gap …

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:

Tests show that ChatGPT is hallucinating URLs in some citations, directing users to broken links for at least 10 news publications with OpenAI licensing deals — Nieman Lab's tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.

Discussion: @davidpwhelan@mastodon.world, @jaredlholt, @decka227, @adamjohnsonchi, Engadget, TVNewsCheck, @researchbuzz@researchbuzz … and @christianschwaegerl …

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Sources: Tom Ortenberg and Briarcliff Entertainment are pushing to acquire The Apprentice for US release, negotiating with Kinematics, backed by Dan Snyder — “The Apprentice,” a dramatized origin story about Donald J. Trump, has faced fierce criticism from the former president and his allies.

Discussion: Slate, The Wrap, Washington Post and Deadline

Wired:

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so — AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …

Discussion: MEDIANAMA, Engadget, New York Post, SiliconANGLE, @chrisharihar, @noahshachtman, @robb@social.lol, @timmarchman, @sarahnemerson, @laurengoode, @dmehro, @crumbler@threads.net, The Verge, TechCrunch and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Laurel Rosenhall / Los Angeles Times:

The California State Senate passes SB 1327, a bill aimed at imposing a “data extraction mitigation fee” on Big Tech to help fund local journalism — The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

Discussion: BuzzMachine, California State Legislature, The NewsGuild, @stevenwaldman, @senblakespear, @mattdpearce, @mattdpearce, @progresschamber, Inside Radio, Matt Pearce and Free Press