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2:20 PM ET, July 9, 2026

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A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
NYT introduces The Local: Twin Cities, a pilot newsletter with original reporting, a goal of promoting local outlets, and an August launch date  —  “The Local” marks the latest step in the publisher's push to deepen regional coverage and engage its customer base
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Peter White / Deadline:
HBO Max received 122 Emmy nominations, Netflix landed 111, Disney received 111 overall, Apple scored 87, its most-ever, and Amazon landed 39 for Prime and MGM+
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CAA calls out Meta over Muse Image and Muse Video's opt-out policy, which lets users generate new content from public Instagram profiles that don't opt out  —  “No one's name, image, likeness, voice, or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear …
Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:
How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books  —  twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world's written works.
Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the media's evolving coverage of sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner shows the need for sensitive, patient reporting  —  In Me Too coverage, timing is everything.  —  Back in April, Susie Banikarim wrote for CJR about Cheyenne Hunt …
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Q&A with Joe Kahn about NYT's push into video amidst a “race against time” to compete with AI-generated slop and influencer-generated non-original journalism  —  Remember pivot to video?  —  For those of you who weren't paying attention to the media industry a decade ago …
The Times of Israel:
Haaretz and Channel 12 offices were attacked in Tel Aviv this week; the Union of Journalists in Israel ties the vandalism to the Netanyahu government's rhetoric  —  Newspaper files police complaint, ups security at building in Tel Aviv; media organizations warn of escalating violence …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount-WBD is set to emerge with ~$80B in debt, with net debt projected to equal ~6.5 times annual EBITDA, a level analysts consider high for a media company  —  Paramount CEO has promised not to sell off assets or cut content spending  —  When Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison unveiled …
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
TF1 says it hit its 18-month audience targets for the Netflix deal in under three weeks; unique daily streams for TF1 shows jumped 16% in the first week  —  The French broadcaster says it has hit record streaming numbers just three weeks into its carriage deal with Netflix, the first of its kind worldwide.
Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: preliminary figures show 44.8M people in the US watched Mexico vs. England across Fox and Telemundo, beyond an estimated 42M for the US-Belgium game  —  That record-setting U.S. TV audience for the game between the U.S. and Belgium?  Not so fast.  —  Preliminary audience numbers across …
 
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
A look at AI startup Versus, which gives viewers interactive experiences like games and trivia on second screens to play along with TV programs or other content
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DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
A federal judge orders that E. Jean Carroll be paid $5M plus interest for damages from a verdict holding President Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing her
 

 
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Axios:
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows

Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview

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Anthropic debuts a “reflection” dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users with memory turned on, to track their Claude activity over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months
 
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