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2:30 AM ET, August 28, 2025

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Liam Reilly / CNN:
YouTube TV and Fox agree to a “short-term extension” of their distribution deal, avoiding a Fox blackout, as they keep working on a new agreement  —  Fox and YouTube TV on Wednesday agreed to an eleventh-hour short-term extension to their distribution deal, narrowly avoiding a blackout of all Fox's content on the platform.
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Justin Baragona / The Independent:
YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN  —  The launch of OAN and AWE on YouTube TV is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2025  —  Your support helps us to tell the story
Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr appears to blame Google for the Fox standoff and says “get a deal done Google”; the FCC has no authority over services like YouTube TV  —  Brendan Carr, the pro-Trump chairman of the FCC, weighed in on the carriage fight between Google's YouTube TV and Fox Corp. …
Columbia Journalism Review:
A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance  —  “You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”  —  Many of the latest large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI's recently …
Discussion: Canon Rumors
Taylor Lorenz / Wired:
Sources: a secretive project offering influencers $250-$8,000 a month to boost Democrats kicked off in July; creators were told 90+ influencers were taking part  —  An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line.
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple partners with TuneIn to make Apple Music's six radio stations available outside its app, a first, as it seeks to compete with Spotify; TuneIn has 75M MAUs  —  The tie-up with TuneIn to distribute Apple's radio stations aims to introduce the company's music service to more people
Marina Adami / Reuters Institute:
Some journalists detail how they are covering the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including using trusted contacts, OSINT, and filming from airdrop flights  —  Foreign correspondents have long served as additional eyes on the ground, assisting local reporters in telling the story of conflicts around the world.
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Sources: Anonymous Content, the production company behind Spotlight, is undergoing layoffs; the estimated cut is less than 15% from a total staff of about 130  —  The estimated reduction of staff is less than 15% of the company's employees.  —  I hear that pink slips will be across the board, from admin staff to executives.
Discussion: Variety
Sara Fischer / Axios:
NASCAR launches on Substack, becoming the first major sports league on the platform; the newsletter will be written by NASCAR's in-house editorial team  —  NASCAR on Thursday will launch its first-ever Substack newsletter, becoming the first major sports league to partner with the email platform …
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
How music criticism lost its edge: since the 2010s, outlets like Pitchfork have abandoned extremely low scores, and critics face harassment for negative reviews  —  Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener.  What happened?
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Jesse Hassenger / The Guardian:
Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure, as the Chicago Tribune cut its film critic job, VF fired its film critic, and the NYT reassigned four arts critics
The Guardian:
Lebanese journalists demand an apology from US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack after he told them to “act civilized” and not be “animalistic” in Beirut  —  Reporters demand apology from Tom Barrack, US special envoy to Syria, after his remarks at Beirut press conference
The Marshall Project:
The Marshall Project names Jennifer Peter as EIC, replacing Susan Chira, who stepped down in December 2024; Peter worked at the Boston Globe since 2004  —  Peter, of The Boston Globe, will lead the national criminal justice outlet's news operations.  —  Jennifer Peter has been named editor …
 
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
California awards $256M in state tax credits to 22 TV productions, the first allocation since it expanded its filming incentive to $750M in total in June
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Staffers, including 14 full-time reporters, from three nonprofit newsrooms backed by Signal Ohio are unionizing with the Northeast Ohio NewsGuild
Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
Time promotes Alex Altman, previously deputy Washington bureau chief and executive features editor, to executive editor
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Disney sues Sling TV for allegedly violating their carriage deal by including Disney's networks without permission in the new mini-bundles launched in August
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Noisy Creek, owner of Seattle's The Stranger and the Portland Mercury, is acquiring the Chicago Reader and also plans to expand its ticketing service to Chicago
Katie Campione / Deadline:
KPop Demon Hunters surpasses Red Notice to become Netflix's “most popular film of all time” based on a 91-day premiere window, hitting 236M views since debuting
 

 
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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, which would value the company at almost $1.77T

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal:
Alphabet upsized its equity raise to $84.75B, including $35B in underwritten public offerings, up from a planned $30B; a source says it contacted ~75 investors
 
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