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4:05 PM ET, July 8, 2025

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sources: Disney and Hearst put A+E Global Media, home to A&E Network, History, and Lifetime, up for sale; it's unclear if it will be sold entirely or in part  —  Wells Fargo tapped to handle a sale process for the long-established brands jointly owned by Disney and Hearst
Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the threats and harassment local reporters covering US extremism face and the importance of coverage of how extremists interact with their communities  —  The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it's still intensely personal.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports  —  A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Oliver Darcy expands his Status newsletter by launching a podcast and videocast called Power Lines, and says Status is approaching 85,000 paid and non-paid subs  —  Now he's ready to see if it will translate to podcasting and video.  —  “Power Lines,” a new podcast and videocast based …
Discussion: The Wrap and Barrett Media
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Politics reporters discuss handling reporting on interactions with aging Congress members who don't seem lucid and their spokespeople who edit their comments  —  A media conundrum for the age of gerontocracy.  —  A few weeks ago, my POLITICO colleague Nicholas Wu and NBC's Sahil Kapur ran …
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announces a major newsroom reorganization, which includes staff layoffs  —  In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announced a major newsroom reorg/cuts, merging credit/finance groups, legal/financial reg groups. “We have sadly had to say goodbye to some colleagues,” but Bloomberg will “end this year with a bigger newsroom than we started
Discussion: TVNewsCheck, The Wrap and @fisheri
Swati Gupta / Bloomberg:
X says India ordered it to block 2,355 accounts, including two from Reuters, on July 3, but then told X to unblock the Reuters accounts after a “public outcry”  —  X raised serious concerns about India's media laws after the government ordered it to block thousands of accounts …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Analysis: Mail Online is among major news brands most-impacted by Google's AI Overviews, with 68.8% of the top 100 keyword searches resulting in no site visits  —  Mail Online is among the most-impacted major newsbrands by the arrival of Google's AI Overviews, according to Press Gazette analysis of new Similarweb data.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A look at some options for fighting AI companies' scraping, including open-source Anubis' cryptographic JavaScript math challenges and Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth  —  For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight.
 
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Rob Waugh / Press Gazette:
A look at UK radio news agency Radio News Hub, which served bulletins to seven radio stations 10 years ago and now serves 400, reaching a 2.3M weekly audience
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims
Discussion: Ars Technica and The Streamable
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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Trump Media launches its streamer Truth+ globally, featuring the cable channel Newsmax, allowing the conservative outlet to grow its presence outside the US
Dan Primack / Axios:
Private equity firm TPG completes its $7.6B acquisition of the remaining 70% stake in DirecTV from AT&T, marking AT&T's exit from media
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Media ethics experts, New York Times contributors, and others say the way that the NYT presented its Zohran Mamdani article raises significant ethical concerns
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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