A look at the impact of Trump's NABJ convention visit, from a longtime member: good exposure for NABJ, revealing quotes, and rising division among NABJ members (Eric Deggans/NPR)

Mediagazer: A look at the impact of Trump's NABJ convention visit, from a longtime member: good exposure for NABJ, revealing quotes, and rising division among NABJ members (Eric Deggans/NPR)

Top News:

The Miami Herald:

McClatchy announces intent to merge with magazine publisher and distributor accelerate360, which publishes Us Weekly and is owned by Chatham Asset Management— McClatchy, one of the oldest and largest local media companies in the United States, plans to merge with accelerate360 …
Discussion: @mawilner, @ckrewson, @mjrusher, @tatecurtis, @jayrosen_nyu, @dlboardman, @tatecurtis, @jayrosen_nyu, @robyntomlin, @jfkwia and @andybechtel@mastodon.online

Discussion:

Michael Wilner /
@mawilner: Breaking: @McClatchy plans to merge with the magazine giant behind @UsWeekly, @InTouchWeekly, and @WomansWorldUS under a new operating company name, with AMI tabloids excluded from the deal and David Pecker out. https://www.miamiherald.com/ ...

Chris Krewson /
@ckrewson: While both companies are profitable on their own, Hunter said that combining the two could triple both profits and revenues. [image]

Chris Krewson /
@ckrewson: Hedge funds gonna hedge fund.

Mike Rusher /
@mjrusher: McClatchy CEO seems to indicate good news for our reporter friends in #ncpol while adding to leadership team. Exec Shakeup coming? ""I'm not anticipating any job cuts in content producers. That's the top of my list of differentiators. Without that, we don't have a business

Mike Rusher /
@mjrusher: #oof “The merger would fuse a local newspaper company that has won more than 50 Pulitzer Prizes with a line of glossy lifestyle and celebrity magazines - an unconventional marriage in the media industry that comes with cultural and ethical challenges.” #ncpol #ncga

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: McClatchy — it owns the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer, Kansas City Star and maybe your newspaper — is being merged into the company (now called A360media) that owns the National Enquirer. That's the tabloid that played “catch and kill” with Trump. https://www.miamiherald.com/ ...

David Boardman /
@dlboardman: A once-excellent news company circles the vulture-capital drain. @tatecurtis: 'But McClatchy executives said that accelerate360's tabloid publications, including the National Enquirer, Star, National Examiner and Globe, would be excluded from the merger' https://www.miamiherald.com/ ...

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: @robyntomlin Thanks, Robyn. “Excluded from” ... “not associated with.” Do you have any details about these parts the deal? I found this part of the Herald story a little murky. Are they talking about a sale of those properties, or some kind of separation, or... what?

Robyn Tomlin /
@robyntomlin: @jayrosen_nyu “But McClatchy executives said that accelerate360's tabloid publications, including the National Enquirer, Star, National Examiner and Globe, would be excluded from the merger, and that its most famous consultant - David Pecker - would not be associated with the new organization.

John Kwiatkowski /
@jfkwia: @jayrosen_nyu Sad news for the media co that had the most accurate coverage of the Iraq war, if I remember correctly

New York Magazine:

The White House asked news outlets to hold their stories on the prisoner swap until Evan Gershkovich and others were in US custody, an embargo Bloomberg broke— How did Bloomberg beat The Wall Street Journal and the rest of the press corps on one of the most-watched stories in the world …

Discussion:
@sdkstl, @oriana0214, @biettetimmons, Wall Street Journal, @jamesrbuk, @tbridis, @djmatthewdalton, @brianmfloyd, @dancow, @maggienyt, @mradamtaylor, WBUR, @megankstack, @mediaevan, Sarah Krouse on LinkedIn, Mediaite, @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social, Washington Post, @ishaantharoor, CBS News, Talking Biz News, @bashowicks@threads.net, New York Post, Poynter, Semafor, Fox News, The Guardian, The Mirror, Telegraph and Wall Street Journal

Discussion:

Staci D Kramer /
@sdkstl: >>With a prisoner swap, you don't know if it's going to happen until it happens. (As one Journal reporter put it: “We literally had Yaroslav Trofimov on the ground with binoculars waiting to see Evan come off the plane, and we pubbed as soon as that happened.")<<

Oriana Pawlyk /
@oriana0214: “The Russian plane was still in the air at the time of publication. That plane could have just turned around and gone back to Moscow, which is why the Journal and other publications had agreed to hold off.”

Nora Biette-Timmons /
@biettetimmons: I *need* to know more about how & why this happened, especially re: the tweet this story mentions... 👀

Bojan Pancevski /
Wall Street Journal: How Germany Enabled a Historic Hostage Swap With Russia

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: I had wondered when Bloomberg ran this earlier than everyone else - especially when it wasn't clear whether or not Evan was actually out of Russia yet - whether something like this had happened.

Ted Bridis /
@tbridis: Hearing from inside @WSJ - which at moment remains notably silent on this - news was embargoed until Evan was out safely, so that premature reporting wouldn't muck things up. Ecstatic if this happens but such scoops are risky.

Matthew Dalton /
@djmatthewdalton: Fantastic story by ⁦@bopanc⁩, including this fascinating nugget: Germany “saw an opening when their Russian counterparts said they wanted to wrap up the deal before the U.S. election in November.” https://www.wsj.com/...

Brian Floyd /
@brianmfloyd: breaking a prisoner swap embargo and celebrating it (when it's not even your reporter either!) is unforgivable and says a lot about the editors' judgment [image]

Dan Nguyen /
@dancow: who is the editor whose greatest career honor was to break embargo and endanger the lives of hostages [image]

Maggie Haberman /
@maggienyt: Reporting it before Gershkovich and other prisoners were safe and the deal was completed

Adam Taylor /
@mradamtaylor: Assumed this was a case of one side of newsroom not knowing what the other side was doing, but perhaps not? [image]

Megan K. Stack /
@megankstack: Not usually impressed by pearl clutching stories about reporters breaking “the rules,” but reporting these prisoners were free when they were still aboard a Russian plane/in Russian custody is indeed pretty awful.

Evan DeSimone /
@mediaevan: As a general rule, embargoes are for losers, but in this specific instance, with lives a stake, unconscionable.

Sarah Krouse /
Sarah Krouse on LinkedIn: What a day for Evan and his family, WSJ and anyone who believes in the importance of a free press. If you read one thing today …

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Bloomberg Under Fire for Breaking Embargo To Seize Russia Prisoner Exchange Scoop

Warner Crocker /
@WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social: Inside media embargo-ball — Everybody Is Mad at Bloomberg for Its Embargo-Breaking Gershkovich Scoop — #journalism — https://nymag.com/... [image]

Ishaan Tharoor /
@ishaantharoor: The Post respected a embargo imposed by US officials who didn't want this to be derailed last minute, so other outlets (and Ankara) got ahead of us Live updates: Evan Gershkovich, others to be freed in U.S.-Russia prisoner swap, Turkish government says https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Chris Roush /
Talking Biz News: Bloomberg broke Gershkovich embargo

Bash O Wicks /
@bashowicks@threads.net: This WSJ story is such a good (long) read on the events that went on behind the scenes with Evan Gershkovich since day one. I've been so slammed with traveling today that I had to read it again to fully grasp the details.

Tom Jones /
Poynter: Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich freed in a prisoner swap with Russia, according to Turkish officials

Caroline Anders /
Semafor: Russia frees WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich in prisoner swap with US Fox News: WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich released by Russia in prisoner swap; Paul Whelan also being freed

Shaun Walker /
The Guardian: Russia prisoner swap involving US journalist Evan Gershkovich under way Wall Street Journal: A detailed timeline of Evan Gershkovich's arrest and release and the months of negotiations involving spy agencies, billionaires, politicians, and his mother

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Columbia Journalism Review:
RFE/RL says it plans to use the “relationships and expertise” developed in its efforts to free Alsu Kurmasheva to free three non-American RFE/RL journalists

Discussion:

Grace Macaskill /
The Sun: Evan never stopped being journalist... when he was told to write to Putin for clemency, he asked for interview

Vritti Johar /
ComingSoon.net: Is Evan Gershkovich Married? Relationship Explained

Nick Visser /
HuffPost: Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva Land In U.S. After Russia Prisoner Swap

Mark Mwachiro /
Adweek: TV Journalists React to Release of WSJ's Evan Gershkovich and Other Prisoners From Russian Custody The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: Reporters Committee statement on the release of Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ: Release of Gershkovich, Kurmasheva welcome, but Russia must stop stifling reporting Reporters Without Borders: Free at last: American journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva swapped in Russian prisoner exchange

Liam Scott /
Voice of America: Historic prisoner swap sees Americans Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva freed from Russia

Jessica Schladebeck /
Boston Herald: Gershkovich, Whelan freed with several others in prisoner swap with Russia

Ellise Shafer /
Variety: Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich to Be Released From Russia in Prisoner Swap

Jeffrey M. McCall /
The Hill: Russia is using American journalists as pawns on its geopolitical chessboard

New York Times:

Over a dozen participants in MrBeast's Beast Games competition said they received inadequate food or medical care and some people were injured during challenges— The contestants in the internet star's “Beast Games” expected outlandish challenges and signed contracts that acknowledged risks of serious injury and death.

Discussion:
Deadline, Tubefilter, The Hollywood Reporter, @kristendesilva, New York Post, @4evrmalone, The Wrap, Kotaku, @simondowens@threads.net, The Verge and Las Vegas Sun

Discussion:

James Hale /
Tubefilter: MrBeast's team blames ‘Beast Games’ filming issues on weather and CrowdStrike incident, says it wants to “learn from this experience”

Carly Thomas /
The Hollywood Reporter: MrBeast's Amazon Show Accused of Unsafe Filming Conditions, Lack of Food by Participants

Kristen Desilva /
@kristendesilva: thought “yikes” probably 100 times while reading this, and of course it happened in Las Vegas https://www.nytimes.com/...

Sean Mandell /
New York Post: MrBeast's team acknowledges need for ‘improvement’ after contestants didn't get adequate food, medical care during contest with $5M prize: source

Madison Malone Kircher /
@4evrmalone: Last week I got a tip that things were amiss on MrBeast's competiton show Beast Games. Contestants said they were forced to go without food, without meds (including insulin) and endured dangerous conditions while living inside a football stadium for days. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

Kayla Cobb /
The Wrap: MrBeast Amazon Show Accused of Unsafe Filming Conditions, Lack of Food and Medical Care

Simon Owens /
@simondowens@threads.net: MrBeast went on several podcasts recently to brag that his upcoming Amazon show will be the biggest in gameshow history. But now that he's firmly in the mainstream, his fast-and-loose approach to making videos is likely to face increased scrutiny. — https://www.nytimes.com/...

Sean Hollister /
The Verge: MrBeast blames terrible Beast Games conditions on the CrowdStrike outage

Kotaku:

GameStop shuts down Game Informer, the oldest gaming magazine in the US, and lays off staff; launched in 1991, it was among the last print gaming magazines— Game Informer, the longest-running gaming magazine in the U.S., is officially dead and GameStop killed it.

Discussion:
@yozetty, @kylemhilliard, Bloomberg, @jasonschreier, Giancarlo Valdes on LinkedIn, @genepark, VentureBeat, @BrendanSinclair …, @andrew_reiner, @cecianasta, The Wrap, @gameinformer, Boing Boing, @neil_druckmann, Dexerto, @lordbalvin, Variety, Digital Trends, The Verge, My Nintendo News and Engadget

Discussion:

Ben Hanson /
@yozetty: I'm furious about the end of Game Informer. It was an incredible 33-year run and then GameStop pumps out this phony/empty farewell message. I'd bet money it was written by AI. Fuck you, GameStop and a huge fuck you to Ryan Cohen.

Kyle Hilliard /
@kylemhilliard: Game Informer has been closed down by GameStop and the entire, incredibly talented staff (including myself) have all been laid off. A frustrating turn of events (especially considering we were about 70% done with the next issue and it was going to have a GREAT cover).

Jason Schreier /
Bloomberg: Sony's Bungie Faces Reckoning After Mass Layoff

Jason Schreier /
@jasonschreier: I told ChatGPT to write a farewell message for Game Informer magazine (R.I.P.) and it sure sounds a lot like the one that GameStop executives published this afternoon: [image]

Giancarlo Valdes /
Giancarlo Valdes on LinkedIn: Terrible news to begin with, but the way it was handled was even worse. — Blindsiding the staff with the layoff announcement while they were still working …

Gene Park /
@genepark: Game Informer once boasted circulation that embarrassed the largest American newspapers. Its covers were as good as anything you'd see on the New Yorker. It's ghoulish that all that work and documentation has been taken off the website. An awful day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Jordan Fragen /
VentureBeat: GameStop shutters Game Informer after 33 years

Brendan Sinclair /
@BrendanSinclair@mastodon.social: After 33 years, Game Informer is shutting down. All the staff were laid off and the site is already down entirely. — It was obviously headed this way given the situation at GameStop and the people running the show there, but it's still hard watching it happen. Best of luck to everyone no longer there. …

Andrew Reiner /
@andrew_reiner: I was Game Informer's editor-in-chief a couple of years ago, and spent a good amount of my time fighting for editorial freedom and to keep the outlet alive. The revolving door of executives meant I repeated those battles over and over again. We never had the support to evolve.

Cecilia D'Anastasio /
@cecianasta: The games industry—and the tech industry—are stronger and more accountable with a robust, well-funded press. Horrible news.

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Game Informer Magazine Shuts Down After 33 Years

Rob Beschizza /
Boing Boing: Game Informer magazine closes, with all staff losing their jobs and the website wiped

Neil Druckmann /
@neil_druckmann: Farewell indeed. As someone who grew up poring over each issue, it was such a thrill and an honor to see our games grace Game Informer. Sad that such a staple of our industry is now gone. Good luck to everyone involved. Your work will be missed. [image] @lordbalvin: GameStop just abruptly shut down Game Informer and laid off its entire staff today. The impact this magazine had on the world cannot be understated bro. A lot of us would not be the gamers we are today without looking forward to these every month. This fucking sucks so bad. [image]

Jordan Moreau /
Variety: Game Informer Magazine Shuts Down After 33 Years

Carli Velocci /
Digital Trends: Game Informer, one of gaming's longest-running magazines, shuts down after 33 years

Jay Peters /
The Verge: Game Informer is shutting down

Danny Gallagher /
Engadget: Game Informer magazine is shutting down after 33 years

NPR:

A look at the impact of Trump's NABJ convention visit, from a longtime member: good exposure for NABJ, revealing quotes, and rising division among NABJ members— CHICAGO — At first, it felt like watching a slow-motion car crash. — I wasn't actually in the room when Donald Trump brought …

Discussion:

Kevin Eck /
Adweek: Here's the Roundup for the Week Ending August 2

Jelani Cobb /
Columbia Journalism Review: Notes from a Fiasco — The moral trade-offs NABJ made in inviting Donald Trump to the stage in Chicago

Feven Merid /
Columbia Journalism Review: The National Association of Black Journalists booked Donald Trump. Many had strong feelings.

Barbara Lippert /
MediaPost: Bringing The Cheap Heat: Trump's Reentry Into The Ring

Demetrius Patterson /
The Hollywood Reporter: NABJ in Talks With Kamala Harris Team Following Trump Panel; Co-Chair Speaks Out

Shamira Ibrahim /
The Guardian: Black journalists were right about Trump. NABJ ignored them

Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière /
Advocate: NABJ tried to have a dialogue with Trump. Instead, it gave him a microphone

Tiffany Walden /
The TRiiBE: Donald Trump's NABJ appearance shows the limitations of both-sides journalism

RELATED:
Axios: NABJ President Ken Lemon says Trump's Q&A was delayed because he threatened not to take the stage if he was going to be fact-checked

Discussion:
@sophiacai99, Marty Davis on LinkedIn, The Hill, @phil_lewis_, Vibe, New Republic, Boing Boing, Mediaite, HuffPost, Poynter and CBS News

Discussion:

Sophia Cai /
@sophiacai99: SCOOP: Trump didn't want to be fact-checked live at NABJ, refusing to go onstage, a stalemate so prolonged NABJ leaders were prepping a statement to say why Trump wouldn't show. As Ken Lemon was preparing it, Trump walked onstage, Lemon told @DelanoMassey https://www.axios.com/...

Marty Davis /
Marty Davis on LinkedIn: “Just the facts, ma'am.” - - Joe Friday — Axios: “Moments before former President Trump took the stage at the National Association …

Lauren Irwin /
The Hill: NABJ president: Trump interview delayed over fact-checking dispute, not audio issues

Philip Lewis /
@phil_lewis_: Axios confirming my reporting that Trump did not want to be fact-checked live and was refusing to go on stage, according to the NABJ president https://www.axios.com/...

DeMicia Inman /
Vibe: Kamala Harris In Talks With NABJ For Virtual Event

Edith Olmsted /
New Republic: Now We Know Why That Disastrous Trump Event Started So Late

Jason Weisberger /
Boing Boing: Trump whined about delays he caused at the NBJA conference

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Trump Refused to Take NABJ Stage Unless They Called Off Live Fact Check, Per NABJ President

Ben Blanchet /
HuffPost: Fox News Host Trashes Trump's NABJ Interview With ‘Complete’ On-Air Takedown

New York Times:

The US DOJ sues TikTok, saying it collected children's data without parents' permission, knowingly let users under the age of 13 create accounts, and more— The Justice Department said that TikTok illegally collected children's data and knowingly allowed users under the age of 13 to create accounts.

Discussion:
CBS News, Washington Post, NBC News, Financial Times, US Department of Justice, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, WTOL-TV, Bloomberg, Politico, CNN, UPI, Arun Rao on LinkedIn, Fox News, MediaPost, Wired, TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, The Information, The Verge, Ars Technica, Variety, TVNewsCheck, Albert Fong on LinkedIn, Forbes, Fortune, The Wrap, Samuel A.A. Levine on LinkedIn, Ad Age, ABC News, Engadget, Mediaite, Deadline, ABC7 and Semafor, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Caitlin Yilek /
CBS News: Justice Department sues TikTok over alleged children's online privacy law violations US Department of Justice: Justice Department Sues TikTok and Parent Company ByteDance for Widespread Violations of Children's Privacy Laws

David Shepardson /
Reuters: More than 50 US lawmakers, 21 states back DOJ in TikTok lawsuit

Wendy Lee /
Los Angeles Times: Justice Department sues TikTok for allegedly violating child privacy laws

Arun Rao /
Arun Rao on LinkedIn: The Justice Department's Consumer Protection Branch, together with the Federal Trade Commission, today filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court …

Kyle Wiggers /
TechCrunch: FTC and Justice Department sue TikTok over alleged child privacy violations

Paris Martineau /
The Information: Justice Department Sues TikTok Over Child Privacy Violations

Ashley Belanger /
Ars Technica: DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children's privacy”

Todd Spangler /
Variety: TikTok Sued by U.S. Justice Department for Allegedly ‘Knowingly and Repeatedly’ Violating Child Data Privacy Law

Eric Niiler /
TVNewsCheck: AI Is Learning To Predict The Weather

Albert Fong /
Albert Fong on LinkedIn: The clock is ticking as TikTok's troubles continue to mount. The U.S. DOJ sued TikTok, claiming that the Chinese-owned social media app broke …

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs /
Forbes: U.S. Government Sues TikTok—Claims App Violated Privacy Of Children

Raquel ‘Rocky’ Harris /
The Wrap: US Justice Department Sues TikTok, ByteDance for ‘Knowingly and Repeatedly’ Violating Children's Privacy

Samuel A.A. Levine /
Samuel A.A. Levine on LinkedIn: Along with our partners at the Department of Justice, the FTC is suing TikTok for knowingly and repeatedly violating kids' privacy rights … ABC News: Justice Department sues TikTok, alleging the social media company violated a children's online privacy law

Phillip Nieto /
Mediaite: DOJ Sues TikTok, Accuses Social Platform Of Illegally Collecting Data From Children

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: Justice Department Sues TikTok Over Alleged Violations Of Child Privacy Laws

Alexander Mallin /
ABC7: US government sues TikTok, accusing the company of illegally collecting children's data

Tasneem Nashrulla /
Semafor: US government sues TikTok over child privacy concerns

NPR:

Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown says Jeff Bezos should “look very carefully” at whether Will Lewis should remain WaPo CEO amid Murdoch tabloid lawsuits— Gordon Brown, the U.K. former prime minister, believes that Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids hacked …

Discussion:
@davidfolkenflik, @timjgraham, @davidfolkenflik and

Discussion:

David Folkenflik /
@davidfolkenflik: Lewis, who is not charged with any crime & is not a named defendant in any hacking suit against the Murdoch papers, has broadly denied all wrongdoing. News UK has denied Brown's allegations as well. Lewis, the Post and Bezos did not reply to requests for comment for this story.

Tim Graham /
@timjgraham: Folkenflik won't be happy until Will Lewis is replaced by oh, Tina Brown or something.

David Folkenflik /
@davidfolkenflik: Former British PM Gordon Brown has accused Wash Post publisher Will Lewis of obstruction of justice and lying to police. Now Brown argues that WaPo owner Jeff Bezos needs to consider replacing Lewis. My interview with the former prime minister: https://www.npr.org/...

David Folkenflik /
@davidfolkenflik: “[Bezos] has got to look very carefully at whether this is the right message to send out to the readers, of the ethics of The Washington Post,” Brown tells NPR. “You've got to ask very serious questions about the newspaper itself and what it wants to do in the future.”

The Canadian Press:

Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians' total engagement with news content on social media is down 43%— Canadian news struggling after Meta ban: study — MONTREAL - A new study is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news outlets …

Discussion:

Kate McKenna /
CBC News: One year after news ban, Canadian journalism is suffering — but Meta isn't budging

James Clive-Matthews /
James Clive-Matthews on LinkedIn: The decline in news audiences - 43%, or 11 million daily views - is shockingly high. This follows Canada's ill-considered battle with Meta … @mediaecosystem: It's been a year since #Meta decided to block Canadians from viewing/accessing/sharing news article links on its platform! Our new brief shows a dramatic drop in news reach and social media impact with minimal public awareness. https://www.shorturl.at/SYvn0 [image]

@mediaecosystem:
Surprisingly, only 22% of Canadians know that news is banned on Facebook and Instagram. And despite the ban, news organization content is still available on #Meta platforms through work-around strategies. [image]

@mediaecosystem:
Overall, Canadians are simply seeing less news online - an estimated reduction of 11 million views per day across Instagram and Facebook - due to the ban. Read the full brief by @s_j_parker, @AengusBridgman, Christopher Ross and Zeynep Pehlivan 👉🏽https://www.shorturl. at/ SYvn0

New York Times:

Docs and sources: The News Movement, a social media-first outlet, has slashed revenue expectations and is in talks to sell a controlling stake to Antenna Group— The Washington Post is creating a division to find valuable audiences in new places. The C.E.O.'s last company shows that's a tough road.

Discussion:
@benmullin, TVNewsCheck, @ainemacdermot.bsky.social, Media Nation and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

Discussion:

Sharon Knolle /
TVNewsCheck: Assistant Director Says Hundreds Of Production Workers Are Sitting At Home

Áine /
@ainemacdermot.bsky.social: Strange. I've never even heard of them, & I'm usually at least peripherally aware of that space. 💭 [embedded post]

Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: Your morning reads: The Evan Gershkovich talks, Will Lewis' folly and changes at CBS

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Will Lewis left behind a business disaster. Will his fabled 3rd newsroom at The Post be built on BS such as this? — 'The company began adopting the “HIPPO” method for engaging its audience, short for “hook + intrigue, pace and payoff.” Making Money From News Aimed at Gen Z Is Easier Said Than Done https://www.nytimes.com/...

Publishers Weekly:

OverDrive, which helps libraries and other organizations lend digital catalogs, is integrating its video streaming service Kanopy with its other collections— With the demand for digital content surging in libraries and schools, OverDrive this week announced the formation of a newly configured Content Group.

Discussion:
OverDrive and Jennifer Leitman on LinkedIn

Futurism:

ChatGPT is citing DNyuz as an authoritative and original source, but DNyuz is a notorious pirater of news for copy-pasting articles from the NYT, AP, and others— Back in June, The New York Times published a fascinating investigation by its award-winning tech reporter Kashmir Hill …

Discussion:
@kashhill@threads.net, @thezedwards, @matdryhurst and @parismarx@mastodon.online

Discussion:
@kashhill@threads.net: Whenever Drudge Report picks up one of my stories in the New York Times, it doesn't link to the NYT version, it links to a scraper site called DNyuz. This has always annoyed me, but there's not much that can be done about it because the scraper site is located beyond the reach of American copyright law. …

Zach Edwards /
@thezedwards: Ad tech companies need to stop working with websites flagrantly stealing news content - all these accountIDs need to be suspended by specific ad tech companies https://dnyuz.com/ads.txt cc @CheckMyAdsHQ [image]

Mat Dryhurst /
@matdryhurst: Why we spent so much time on deduplication for our opt out, and more reason why robots.txt is not fit for the AI data question You can opt out work on sites you control, but if someone reposts the work you have no say The more success you have with your art, the less control

Paris Marx /
@parismarx@mastodon.online: OpenAI is regularly citing a content mill that plagiarizes articles to make money running ads next to them instead of linking users to the originals published by the New York Times. — https://futurism.com/... #tech #ai #openai #artificialintelligence #journalism

Publishers Weekly:

A bankruptcy court approves Barnes & Noble's $1.83M acquisition of Denver's Tattered Cover bookstores, which will be B&N's first US deal for an indie bookstore— On July 30, a federal bankruptcy court approved Barnes & Noble's acquisition of Tattered Cover, setting the stage …

Discussion:
Denver Gazette, @bsiegel1201, @tfrei, @tatteredcover, Publishers Weekly

Discussion:

Bernadette Berdychowski /
Denver Gazette: Court approves Denver's Tattered Cover sale to Barnes & Noble, sealing $1.8M deal

Bill Siegel /
@bsiegel1201: This includes payment of $1.6 million in secured claims and $50,000 for back rent with plans to extend the leases on the store's sites. https://www.denverpost.com/... #retail #landlords 2/2

Terry Frei /
@tfrei: Court approves $1.8M sale of Tattered Cover to Barnes & Noble. TC name will remain on 4 stores. Like most area authors, I've done signings at both and am grateful for the support. Let TC still act as a feisty independent, as hard as that might be. https://denvergazette.com/... [image] @tatteredcover: We wholeheartedly thank each and every one of you for your continued patronage as we venture into this exciting new chapter. We greatly look forward to being able to better support you and your book-buying needs.

@tatteredcover:
All of us here at Tattered Cover are proud and excited to announce that our sale has been approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado and we have completed our transaction with Barnes & Noble. [image]

Bloomberg:

Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms— - Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI

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