Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:45 PM ET, July 4, 2025

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Trump tells reporters, “We did a deal for about $16M plus $16M, or maybe more than that in advertising” 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 …
RELATED:
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount faces a backlash for settling with Trump; Democrat FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says it “marks a dangerous precedent for the First Amendment”  —  - Journalists and others said the payoff will embolden attacks by Trump and his allies on news outlets.
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16M to settle his 60 Minutes lawsuit, stating the money will go to his future presidential library, without offering an apology
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Doc: UK's Independent Publishers Alliance files an antitrust complaint with EU and the UK CMA 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 …
Deadline:
Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract  —  The TV personality's high-rated daytime Dr. Phil show ended a 21-year run after the 2022-23 season although it lived on in syndication.
Benjamin Lindsay / The Wrap:
Memo: HFPA members voted to oust President Helen Hoehne from her role and also ejected her from its board, as members aim to reverse HFPA's 2023 dissolution  —  Hoehne, who oversaw the organization through boycotts over diversity and its Eldridge acquisition, was also ejected from its board of directors
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities not to comply …
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, humans doing the rating, and more  —  The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news  —  Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
ITV names Daniel Robinson the editor of Good Morning Britain, ahead of the program's transition to being produced by ITN; he was GMB's deputy editor since 2021  —  Daniel Robinson has been named the next editor of ITV's Good Morning Britain ahead of the programme's transition to being produced by ITN.
Discussion: Mirror
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Sandy Gall, an ITN presenter for 20 years and war correspondent who covered Vietnam, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan, and more, has died at age 97  —  He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 3:45 PM ET, July 4, 2025.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
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
Steven McIntosh / BBC:
The BBC says future music performances deemed high risk won't be aired or streamed live; Bob Vylan and six others had been labeled high risk before Glastonbury
 Earlier Picks: 
Jorge A. Aguilar / How-To Geek:
Amazon is shutting down its Freevee app in August, but its content will remain on Prime Video, whether or not users have a Prime subscription
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root
 

 
From Techmeme:

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia will “accelerate the recovery” of its China chip sales and he expects its US export licenses “to come through very shortly”

Kylie Robison / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab

Casey Newton / Platformer:
xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding “companions”; one includes an NSFW “Bad Rudy” mode and the other becomes NSFW
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page