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12:35 PM ET, July 16, 2026

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Oliver Darcy's Status media newsletter is moving into live events with the Status Summit, planned for September 9 to discuss the forces shaping media  —  The status of “Status” is multimedia.  —  The buzzy media-industry newsletter that journalist and entrepreneur Oliver Darcy founded in 2024, is moving into live events.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Paramount shareholder lawsuit claims David and Larry Ellison made an illegal deal with Trump in trade for approval of the WBD merger, promising to revamp CNN  —  Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison and his tech billionaire dad Larry Ellison have been sued by a Paramount shareholder …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sources: execs expect a judge to grant a temporary restraining order delaying the Paramount-WBD merger; Paramount still expects to close the merger before Q4
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The NYT filed a motion Wednesday to quash DOJ subpoenas of three of its reporters demanding they disclose their sources, following coverage of Air Force One  —  The Justice Department is seeking to compel grand jury testimony as part of an investigation into Times reporting on the president's new Air Force One jet.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Versant plans to overhaul its free streaming service, dropping the “Fandango At Home” branding in favor of a streamlined “Fandango” name and adding new features  —  The Versant-owned media company is adding content, changing the brand name and adding new features …
Andy Beckett / The Guardian:
How Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples  —  At the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective.  Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
Peter Thiel-backed Objection, initially an AI “tribunal” assessing reporters' articles, rebrands as The Primary to rank journalists “on the rigor” of their work  —  Rebranded as The Primary, the service ranks media outlets and reporters.
Ashley Wong / Wall Street Journal:
How Prime Video has cornered the market on young adult fiction, notching hit after hit by tapping into the fervent BookTok community and catering to women  —  Prime Video has cornered the market on young-adult fiction, catering to a massive audience of women and girls who want to escape into love stories
Mizy Clifton / Politico:
Ofcom launches a probe into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of using age inference to determine users' ages  —  The online safety watchdog is worried about TikTok's use of “age inference” to guess users' ages.
Financial Times:
Filings: the US government says it is considering joining Donald Trump's lawsuit against the BBC; the BBC says the “conflict of interest is clear and stark”  —  Move raises clear conflict of interest concerns between president and state, says broadcaster
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms  —  Trump Media & Technology Group is launching a backend interface that will allow financial services companies to access real-time Truth Social data …
Riddhi Setty / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Privacy Act lawsuits against the government that result in journalists being subpoenaed to reveal their sources, and their impact on press freedom  —  Catherine Herridge, a former Fox News reporter, is being compelled to pay $800 a day until she reveals confidential sources.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo  —  Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked …
 
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Ethics disclosures show 7 out of 10 FCC commissioners since 2016 have accepted Kennedy Center tickets worth thousands courtesy of CBS or its parent company
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Kimi:
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27

Robert Hart / The Verge:
The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music
 
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