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4:05 AM ET, July 7, 2025

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: the NYT rushed to publish its story on Zohran Mamdani's Columbia application out of fear of being scooped by other reporters, such as Christopher Rufo  —  THE SCOOP  —  The afternoon before a long holiday weekend isn't always the best time to drop a major scoop.
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Patrick Healy / @patrickhealynyt:
[Thread] An NYT standards editor responds to criticism of its recent Zohran Mamdani story, saying the “ultimate source” was Columbia data that Mamdani confirmed  —  As the @nytimes assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, I've received reader feedback regarding our reporting on Zohran Mamdani's 2009 application to Columbia University. To provide context on how the reporting came together, I wanted to share some information:
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
NYT publishes article on Zohran Mamdani identifying as African American on his college application, citing hacked docs from an anonymous “race science” advocate
The Information:
Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the US' September 17 deadline to enforce the divest-or-ban law  —  TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors.
Reuters:
Reuters says its X account was restored a day after being suspended in India over a “legal demand”; the Indian government denies issuing an order to restrict it  —  The Reuters News account on X has been inaccessible to users in India since Saturday, when the social media platform suspended …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Trump tells reporters that “We did a deal for about $16M plus $16M, or maybe more than that in” ads with CBS, which denies PSAs were part of the settlement  —  Someone's playing fast and loose with the real numbers, and, for once, it may not be Donald Trump …
New York Times:
Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports, on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May  —  More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.
Ian Bogost / The Atlantic:
Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music  —  “ Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.”  Sure, fine.  —  The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew …
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Jim Shooter, who revitalized the comics industry as the editor-in-chief of Marvel from 1978 to 1987, died at age 73  —  He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.  —  Jim Shooter, a hard-driving giant …
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Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Sources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech  —  Google's relations with publishers have suffered lately, as its shift to AI-powered searches has hurt traffic being sent to publishers' web sites.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Document: the UK's Independent Publishers Alliance files an EU and UK CMA antitrust complaint against Google, alleging misuse of web content for AI Overviews  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers …
 
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