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10:05 PM ET, July 21, 2026

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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Memo: ESPN's Jimmy Pitaro announces layoffs, mostly due to the NFL Network acquisition; sources: on-air personalities Karl Ravech and Ryan Clark are affected  —  Karl Ravech, one of ESPN's most prominent on-air voices for more than three decades, and NFL insider Tom Pelissero were laid off …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Cuts at ESPN are part of larger Disney layoffs; sources: some corporate functions, film studios, and Disney Entertainment Television are expected to be impacted  —  Pixar and Nat Geo are said to be hit particularly hard in the latest round of cuts, with some high-profile talent also being let go at ESPN.
Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: the World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox, and 22M+ on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games  —  After a summer of World Cup TV records in the U.S. being reset over and over, the biggest game delivered one final new standard for soccer viewership:
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Antenna: the 2026 World Cup drove 2.8M subscriptions to Fox One in June, including 400K on June 11, eclipsing the 1.1M sign-ups during January's NFL playoffs  —  The World Cup, which smashed records for viewing during its just-concluded five-week run, provided a significant boost to fledgling streaming outlet Fox One.
MJ Franklin / New York Times:
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY  —  It's the climax of the “Odyssey.”  Odysseus, back in Ithaca at long last, finds his home swarming with suitors vying for the hand of his wife, Penelope, and for his throne.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
News Corp sues privacy-focused search engine Brave, alleging it uses masked web crawlers to bypass publishers' restrictions and deliver “verbatim” AI summaries  —  The Scoop  —  News Corp, the Murdoch family-owned parent company of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
The DOD hasn't held a press briefing in more than two months, as part of a larger effort to control information and avoid difficult questions about the Iran war  —  The Middle East Federal agencies US military Donald Trump … The public deserves transparency about the US war in Iran.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years  —  OpenAI is renewing its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million …
Chris Best / The Substack Post:
Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance  —  It's getting harder to tell what's real on the internet.  —  This is less true on Substack, and we aim to keep it that way.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hearst names Chris Berend, most recently chief digital officer at NBC News, as its first chief content and experience officer, starting August 3
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Lance Venta / RadioInsight:
SiriusXM licenses 42 Audacy news and sports radio stations, marking the return of terrestrial radio to SiriusXM; the deal starts Sept. 1 with 23 sports stations
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
BBC register: BBC News on-air journalists received at least £657,000 in external payments from 550 outside engagements in the year to the end of March 2026
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, the first major US case of its kind to settle; some authors opted out and have other ongoing suits
Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix raised $1B from a US high-grade bond sale, its first since a debut deal two years ago
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
In the temporary restraining order, a US judge says Paramount's anticipated 27% market share in theatrical distribution is likely to violate antitrust laws
 

 
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Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities

Tulsee Doshi / Google:
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, with partner Klarna in the US next week
 
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