Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:00 AM ET, July 6, 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:
Wall Street Journal:
Source: President Trump's team expects Paramount to make an eight-figure “allocation” for ads, PSAs, and other broadcasts that support conservative causes  —  Concerns about bribery allegations, angry CBS News staff and a looming high-stakes merger made for tense monthslong negotiations
Patrick Healy / @patrickhealynyt:
[Thread] an NYT standards editor responds to criticism of its recent Zohran Mamdani story, says 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:
RELATED:
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 New York Times published a story that cited hacked documents at Columbia University showing …
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Jim Shooter, who revitalized the comics industry as the EIC 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 …
Discussion: Comic Book, Kotaku and /Film
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Survey: 47% of UK adults and 81% of UK “decision makers” say they use AI “as part of consuming news and staying up to date with current events”  —  Nearly half of UK adults have used AI tools to stay up to date with news and current affairs, according to new research by communications agency Portland.
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:
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 …
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
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
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
The UK government rejects a proposed 5% levy on streaming services and a 25% tax rebate on ad costs for indie films, among other committee recommendations  —  The U.K. government has firmly rejected calls for a 5% levy on streaming platforms and mandatory IP retention rules …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 9:00 AM ET, July 6, 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
 
 
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro

Alexander Wei / @alexwei_:
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models
 
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