Paul Webster, the editor of The Guardian's Sunday newspaper The Observer, plans to retire in the fall after six years at the helm and 28 years at the paper (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)

Mediagazer: Paul Webster, the editor of The Guardian's Sunday newspaper The Observer, plans to retire in the fall after six years at the helm and 28 years at the paper (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)

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The Hollywood Reporter:

MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says that he was “surprised” and “disappointed” after NBC leadership pulled his show on Monday— The MSNBC host returned to the channel Tuesday, saying he was “surprised” and “disappointed” by the decision to preempt his show Monday.
Discussion: Variety, Fox News, @grynbaum, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, @jameslynch32, @maxwelltani, Daily Mail, Fox News, Deadline, Semafor, @grynbaum, @joebrusuelas, @jeffjarvis, Raw Story, @newsjennifer, @jeffjarvis, The Daily Beast, @ivanthek and Raw Story

Discussion:

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Joe Scarborough ‘Surprised, Very Disappointed’ by MSNBC Pre-Emption

Hanna Panreck /
Fox News: ‘Morning Joe’ host Scarborough addresses being off air, criticizes network: ‘We were very disappointed’

Michael M. Grynbaum /
@grynbaum: Joe Scarborough just took an on-air swipe at NBC leadership for yanking yesterday's “Morning Joe.” “We were very surprised. We were very disappointed.” He says the show staff was told NBC would be running a single feed across every network (which didn't happen)

Asher Notheis /
Washington Examiner: MSNBC's Morning Joe returns to air, furious over being yanked following Trump shooting

Colby Hall /
Mediaite: Joe Scarborough Addresses Morning Joe Getting Pulled Off MSNBC: ‘We Were Very Surprised. We Were Very Disappointed’

James Lynch /
@jameslynch32: Scarborough: “Next time we're told there's going to be a news feed replacing us...the news feed will be us or they can get somebody else to host the show."[video]

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: In attempting to avoid a scandal, NBCU managed to piss off the viewers and the talent. And the network didn't even totally follow through: As we reported, a plan to also move Nicole Wallace and Ari Melber around yesterday was scrapped after viewer backlash https://www.semafor.com/...

Kelly Laco /
Daily Mail: Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough respond to getting pulled off air after Donald Trump shooting

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: ‘Morning Joe’ Host Joe Scarborough Tells Viewers He Was “Surprised” And “Disappointed” That Network Preempted Monday's Show

Michael M. Grynbaum /
@grynbaum: Scarborough also says NBC had told him MSNBC opinion shows would be pre-empted throughout Monday. “Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn't happen ... I guess they changed their plans.”

Joseph Brusuelas /
@joebrusuelas: @IvanTheK @brianstelter That is so on brand for @JoeNBC. He's always been a bit like the morning drive FM DJ railing against the man/mgt from the 1980's in addition to the insightful political analysis. That's part of the secret sauce of that show - besides Minka who we all adore & respect-that boomers @jeffjarvis: Good. @JoeNBC criticizes the bosses: “We were told in no uncertain terms on Sunday night that there was going to be one news feed against all channels.... I guess after there was such strong blowback about what happened yesterday morning that they changed their plans.... We were

@jeffjarvis:
In yesterday's statement, NBC News executives said they made this decision in collaboration with Joe and Mika. That, clearly, was a lie. We still need to know more about what happened at NBC News.

Tom Boggioni /
Raw Story: ‘Surprised and disappointed’: Joe Scarborough slams his bosses for yanking Monday's show

Jennifer Schulze /
@newsjennifer: The @NBCNews mgt team that made the call to censor its leading political talk show should have been fired months ago for hiring Ronna McDaniel, a trump fake elector co-conspirator.

@jeffjarvis:
.@JoeNBC: “Next time we're told there's going to be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs. And the news feed will be us or they can get somebody else to host this show.” Add this to the Ronna McDaniel revolt and I'd say NBC News executives have lost the confidence of

Dan Ladden-Hall /
The Daily Beast: Joe Scarborough: Mika and I Will Quit if ‘Morning Joe’ Is Pulled Again @ivanthek: Wow. Now Joe Scarborough now going after NBC News management for taking Morning Joe off the air yesterday. @brianstelter

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CNN:

MSNBC pulled Morning Joe on Monday, a source says due to worries that a guest might make an inappropriate comment about Donald Trump's attempted assassination— New York CNN — — MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday …

Discussion:
Politico, HuffPost, Mediaite, Adweek, Axios, The Wrap, TVLine, The Daily Beast, ComingSoon.net, @jayrosen_nyu, Page Six, New York Post, @ted_scheinman, @ryanjthomas83, @nh_homebrewer, @ngrossman81, @dkthomp, @dominiccampbell, @vinodsreeharsha, @will_bunch, @lailaalarian, @rolandsmartin, @nycsouthpaw, @esaagar, @austinahlman, @wajahatali, @gbbranstetter, @kenklippenstein, @byronyork, @doughenwood, @heerjeet, Fox News, @jeffjarvis, @maxwelltani, @markjacob16, @jeffjarvis, @michaeldsgro, @jeffjarvis, @brianstelter, Washington Examiner, New York Times, New York Daily News, The Desk, Variety, Breitbart, Deadline, @sauthoff.bsky.social and The Verge

Discussion:

Irie Sentner /
Politico: Scarborough blasts NBC for pulling ‘Morning Joe’ after Trump shooting, threatens to quit if it happens again

Sara Boboltz /
HuffPost: MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts ‘Disappointed’ To Be Ordered Off-Air After Trump Shooting

Jamie Frevele /
Mediaite: Colby Hall Calls Out NBC News ‘Circus’ Under Cesar Conde: ‘Joe Scarborough Is Pissed!’

Ethan Alter /
Adweek: Here's Why Morning Joe Was Absent From MSNBC on Monday

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Joe Scarborough Rails Against MSNBC for Preempting ‘Morning Joe’: ‘Surprised, Very Disappointed’

Ryan Schwartz /
TVLine: Joe Scarborough ‘Very Disappointed’ by NBC News' Decision to Preempt Monday's Morning Joe: ‘Our Team Was Not Given a Good Answer’ (Watch)

Dan Ladden-Hall /
The Daily Beast: MSNBC Isn't Airing ‘Morning Joe’ Monday Because of the Trump Assassination Attempt

Disheeta Maheshwari /
ComingSoon.net: Is Morning Joe Canceled? Will It Return?

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: I have neither heard nor read of a decision like this in network news. It brings further dimension to the trust-in-media problem: we don't trust ourselves.

Carlos Greer /
Page Six: MSNBC says network won't tone down coverage of Donald Trump after pulling ‘Morning Joe,’ staffers were peeved at decision

David Propper /
New York Post: MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ hosts, staff stunned show didn't air Monday after Trump assassination attempt: report

Ted Scheinman /
@ted_scheinman: the refs are now working themselves.

Nicholas Grossman /
@ngrossman81: A media organization saying it was possible that 1 out of 25 on air comments might offend the potential future president and his supporters so they'll say nothing instead is a bad sign of how they'll act if those political forces get national power.

Derek Thompson /
@dkthomp: This explanation makes no sense on its face. 1) “We pulled Morning Joe so a guest wouldn't say something offensive on Monday.” What changes on Tuesday? 2) “Our political news show can't handle big politics news” is a brutal judgment (to the point of being in-credible)

Dominic Campbell /
@dominiccampbell: Already acting like an authoritarian state. People hate me in 🇺🇸 when I say this, but US closer to Russia and Israel than it would like to pretend. Certainly looking into the future.

Vinod Sreeharsha /
@vinodsreeharsha: Excellent. @MSNBC should extend this decision to every day, not just today. If something positive can come out of past few days, it'd be abolishing all cable television news shows. And introducing something novel to 24-hour news channels: “airing rolling breaking news coverage.”

Will Bunch /
@will_bunch: When anti-fascism experts say “Do not obey in advance,” this is the kind of banana republic BS they are taking about

Laila Al-Arian /
@lailaalarian: Comments on cable news rationalizing or justifying the mass killing of Palestinian civilians are fine 👍 @rolandsmartin: I'm stunned. @MSNBC leadership has pulled their flagship morning show @Morning_Joe today, on the first day of the @GOP convention. I'm sure @JoeNBC @morningmika and their crew is stunned by this decision. It's totally perplexing to me. So are they pulling all primetime shows too? @nycsouthpaw: The former Republican congressman who defines morning coverage on the supposedly Democratic-aligned cable news channel was reportedly taken off the air this morning out of fear he, his wife, or his guests would say something to offend the MAGAs. https://cnn.com/...

Saagar Enjeti /
@esaagar: MSNBC is telling us that on one of the most important news days in US politics Morning Joe can't be trusted This is an actual admission they can NEVER be trusted

Austin Ahlman /
@austinahlman: the reasoning is bizarre but taking Morning Joe off air, even for just one day, is a service to this nation

Wajahat Ali /
@wajahatali: A lot of news today. Let's see what Morning Joe is saying. Oh nevermind. MSNBC caved to bad faith MAGA attacks and took them off the air. Obey in advance apparently. Nice nice.

Gillian Branstetter /
@gbbranstetter: Obsessed with the notion a 20-year-old Republican in a gun club t-shirt was being radicalized by Morning Joe

Ken Klippenstein /
@kenklippenstein: Let's make the Morning Joe suspension permanent just to be safe

Byron York /
@byronyork: It's a huge day in politics and MSNBC has pulled ‘Morning Joe’ off the air. They're apparently worried the MJ crew might say something ‘inappropriate’ about the Trump assassination attempt. From CNN: https://www.cnn.com/... [image]

Doug Henwood /
@doughenwood: Free press. Morning Joe yanked—not for being stupid either. https://nypost.com/... [image]

Jeet Heer /
@heerjeet: I hate, hate, hate the Morning Joe show with a passion, it's a toxic stew of braindead centrist smugness, but pulling the show for this reason is even worse. Just pure cowardice from MSNBC Fox News: ‘Morning Joe’ hosts, staff shocked after being only MSNBC show Monday replaced by NBC News feed

@jeffjarvis:
What the fuck, MSNBC? You preempted your excellent weekend programming, @TheWeekendMSNBC and @AliVelshi, and now you've silenced @Morning_Joe in favor of your anodyne streaming news cos-play called Now? This is when we need the analysis and conversation these shows bring us (yes,

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: Second major programming decision from Cesar Conde this cycle (1st was firing Ronna McDaniel). Two people I've talked to said that Joe and Mika ultimately didn't disagree with the decision to stay off the air today (CNN reports decision was made in consultation with the hosts).

Mark Jacob /
@markjacob16: The same NBC executives who wanted to hire fake-electors plotter Ronna McDaniel as a commentator are now keeping their own MSNBC hosts off the air, intimidated by the right wing in the wake of Saturday's assassination attempt.

@jeffjarvis:
Here is Daily Beast reporting on this terrible decision by NBC. It feels as if @JoeNBC & @morningmika are being imprisoned in an undisclosed 30 Rock dungeon. Tweet 😬once if you need help. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... @michaeldsgro: What a mistake @MSNBC made today in not going to @Morning_Joe @JoeNBC @morningmika @WillieGeist. I mean who are these two on now? I was waiting all weekend for Joe's take on all that's going on. #MorningJoe [image]

@jeffjarvis:
Did some numbnuts NBC/Comcast/Universal executive decide an assassination attempt was a good time to promote its foundering streaming show? (I feel like we're living in AppleTV's Morning Show. UBS>NBC.) Or did this essentially Republican megacorporation decide to silence liberal

@jeffjarvis:
MSNBC: You'd damned well better not preempt @NicolleDWallace, @JoyAnnReid, @maddow, @chrislhayes, @Lawrence, and @AriMelber today or I'll come organize a picket line at 30 Rock. Who's in charge there: journalists or Republican media moguls? MSNBC is the alternative to the

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Re: “Morning Joe” being pre-empted today: “A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show's stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: MSNBC has been in “rolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening,” which means POV programs have been pre-empted for the time being- https://www.cnn.com/...

Jim Rutenberg /
New York Times: ‘Morning Joe’ Is Pre-empted for Breaking News Coverage

David Matthews /
New York Daily News: ‘Daily Show,’ ‘Morning Joe’ cancel Monday shows after Trump assassination attempt

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: “Morning Joe,” “Daily Show” cancel episodes following Trump assassination attempt

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: ‘Morning Joe’ Moved on MSNBC Monday After Trump Assassination Attempt

Joel B. Pollak /
Breitbart: NBC Pulls MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ Off Air Monday for News Coverage

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: MSNBC Preempts ‘Morning Joe’ For Breaking News Of Trump Assassination Attempt

Patricia Sauthoff /
@sauthoff.bsky.social: I'm really curious what MSNBC is worried about being inappropriate here. Some wacko conspiracy or someone saying something actually reasonable like Trump is a fascist who has been stoking violence for years. [embedded post]

USA Today:

The Daily Show scraps its on-the-ground reporting at RNC, citing “logistical issues and the evolving situation”, following the assassination attempt on Trump— “The Daily Show” is making some changes to its upcoming coverage of the Republican National Convention.

Discussion:
Deadline, Washington Examiner, CBS News, @thedailyshow, @theharryshearer, ABC News, Washington Post, New York Post, New Republic, Fox News, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Times, WTMJ, IndieWire, Breitbart, Variety, Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, Next TV, HuffPost, NPR, LateNighter, The Wrap and Hartford Courant

Discussion:

Peter White /
Deadline: ‘The Daily Show’: Jon Stewart To Host Tonight, Stays Live After RNC On Thursday After Milwaukee Pivot

Emily Hallas /
Washington Examiner: Newsom sends Trump security reinforcements at RNC: ‘Public safety transcends party lines’

Harry Shearer /
@theharryshearer: The Daily Show cancels at least some of its planned convention-week programming out of...what? Satirical empathy?

Sarah Beth Hensley /
ABC News: How to watch, what to know about the 2024 RNC — The Republican National Convention takes place July 15-18 in Milwaukee.

James A. Gagliano /
New York Post: How safe will Milwaukee RNC be after Trump shooting?

Fox News:
CNN panel agrees Trump is at his ‘at his apex’ of power going into RNC after surviving attempt on his life

Kevin Crust /
Los Angeles Times: ‘Daily Show’ cancels Milwaukee shows, moves back to N.Y. after assassination attempt on Trump

Dylan Hunter Carter /
WTMJ: RNC 2024 Day 1: Trump VP pick expected, Milwaukee protests kick off & traffic troubles — Decision Wisconsin Live Blog

Christian Blauvelt /
IndieWire: ‘The Daily Show’ Scraps RNC Presence After Trump Assassination Attempt

Simon Kent /
Breitbart: ‘Daily Show’ Cancels On-the-Ground RNC Coverage After Trump Assassination Attempt

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: ‘Daily Show’ Cancels On-The-Ground RNC Plans After Trump Assassination Attempt Associated Press: Donald Trump arrives in Milwaukee for RNC after assassination attempt heightens security fears

Zoe G. Phillips /
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘The Daily Show’ Cancels Planned Milwaukee Shows Following Trump Assassination Attempt

Jon Lafayette /
Next TV: Jon Stewart, ‘Daily Show’ Cancel Plans To Broadcast From Milwaukee After Trump Shooting

Stephen Fowler /
NPR: Donald Trump becomes nominee and makes VP pick at RNC

Jennifer M. Wood /
LateNighter: The Daily Show Cancels Mon Show and Won't Travel to RNC Due to ‘Evolving Situation in Milwaukee’

Stephanie Kaloi /
The Wrap: ‘The Daily Show’ Cancels Planned RNC Shows Following Trump Assassination Attempt

Poynter:
A look at the coverage of the assassination attempt on Trump, including top networks and outlets providing hours of reporting with no errors or controversies

Discussion:

David Bauder /
Associated Press: In a world of moving pictures, photographs capture indelible moments in Trump assassination attempt

Fox News:
Photographer who took epic image of Trump's reaction to assassination attempt isn't ready to call it ‘iconic’

Bryan Beal /
@bryanrbeal: No wonder this paper is failing [image]

Bill Grueskin /
@bgrueskin: Right-wing critics who blamed reporters for the assassination attempt “were only too quick to tweet out the iconic images that the photographers at the rally—very much members of ‘the media’—risked their lives to capture” Via @Jon_Allsop / @CJR https://www.cjr.org/...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: The TV anchors who were on the air when the shots rang out, like CNN's @jessicadean and Fox's @ShannonBream, were calm and careful. At a moment of fear and uncertainty for the country, the news coverage was steady and sober, exactly as it should be.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: @jessicadean @ShannonBream Weekend newsroom crews deserve a big shoutout. Weekends can be a lonely, underappreciated, overstretched shift. The weekend crews at the networks all rose to the occasion. NBC, ABC and CBS stayed on the air for hours and hours, a rarity.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Poynter's @TomWJones asked for my impressions of the Trump shooting coverage. I told him this was best-case coverage of a worst-case scenario — top networks and publications provided wall-to-wall coverage with virtually no errors or controversies https://www.poynter.org/...

Jeremy Barr /
Washington Post: ‘I have to do my job’: Photojournalists capture images of Trump shooting

Jon Allsop /
Columbia Journalism Review: The cynicism of blaming the media for the Trump assassination attempt

Dasha Burns /
NBC News: NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns describes chaotic and dangerous scene at Saturday's Trump rally

Tyler Austin Harper /
The Atlantic: A Legendary American Photograph

Poynter:

A look at Fresh Take Florida, a University of Florida-run news service that shares content by its student journalists for free with ~100 outlets like CNN and AP— 'Frankly, they're doing the kind of digging and comprehensive work that the rest of us ought to be doing'

Discussion:
NewsLab and Silas Joseph Morgan on LinkedIn

Discussion:
NewsLab: Meet the student journalists who report on Florida's most influential and powerful elected officials

Wall Street Journal:

Nullbulge, a hacktivist group critical of AI art, leaks Disney's alleged Slack messages over “how it handles artist contracts” and AI; Disney is investigating— ‘Hacktivist’ group critical of AI-generated art says it has obtained swaths of data from Disney's Slack channels, some of which it has published online

Discussion:
The Ankler, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, Hackread, Breitbart, ComingSoon.net, Cord Cutters News, @campuscodi, @h4ckmanac, The Wrap, CNN, Gene Chuang on LinkedIn, Deadline, IGN, @jbflint, Dexerto, Variety, Wired, The Hill, Reuters, The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter and Advanced Television, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Sean McNulty /
The Ankler: ☀️A24's New A-List Spend, PAR Investor Wants Deal Details

Ryan Faughnder /
Los Angeles Times: From ‘Longlegs’ to ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ — lessons from Hollywood's summer box office so far

Pranav Dixit /
Engadget: A hacking group reportedly leaked confidential data from thousands of Disney Slack channels.

Paul Bois /
Breitbart: Disney Hacked: Investigation Underway After Group Claims to Have Trove of Data

Apoorv Rastogi /
ComingSoon.net: Disney Investigating Potential Major Hack of Future Unreleased Projects

Catalin Cimpanu /
@campuscodi: Reddit users and some gaming news outlets are now confirming that the supposed Disney 1.1TB leak is authentic. The data allegedly comes from Disney's internal Slack channel. A hacktivist group NullBulge leaked it in response to Disney's treatment of its writers and artists. [image] @h4ckmanac: 🚨🚨#DataBreach 🚨🚨 “NullBulge” claims to have leaked Disney's internal Slack. According to the post, the amount of data leaked is 1.1 terabytes and includes almost 10,000 channels, every message and file, unreleased projects, raw images and code, some logins, links to [image]

@h4ckmanac:
After the alleged leak of Disney's internal Slack, NullBulge reports that its blog is the target of a DDoS attack with 9.2 million total requests, which was mitigated. #DDoS [image]

Sharon Knolle /
The Wrap: Disney Investigating Hack by Anti-AI Group Who Says It Took ‘Anything We Could Get Our Hands On’

Gene Chuang /
Gene Chuang on LinkedIn: Disney Slack History 1TB worth stolen by hacktivist/insider, this following AT&T and Ticketmaster Snowflake/Okta breach that exposed hundreds …

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: Disney Investigating Possibly Major Hack Of Internal Slack Channels

Joe Flint /
@jbflint: HACKED! Data from Disney's internal Slack workplace collaboration system have been leaked online, including discussions about ad campaigns, studio technology and interview candidates. From @bysarahkrouse & @bobmcmillan https://www.wsj.com/...

Jessica Cullen /
Dexerto: Disney Slack hack explained: Has my data been stolen?

Lily Hay Newman /
Wired: Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: Disney's internal Slack was leaked by hackers mad about AI

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Disney Hacked: Group Claims to Have Trove of Data, Company Investigating

Washington Post:

Six journalists who worked at DCist, closed by WAMU earlier in 2024, launch the 51st, a worker-run local news site for DC, and a $250K fundraising campaign— The worker-run newsroom will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

Discussion:

Colleen Grablick /
@colleengrablick: soo hey sharks, a team of former WAMU and DCist staffers are here today asking YOU for $250,000 to sustain our worker-led, community-based local news outlet @51stnews!!! it's really happening!! you can learn more about our efforts and donate here! https://givebutter.com/The51st

Allison McCague, PhD /
@petitephd: Great news for local journalism. Let's help them thrive, DC! @51stnews: We've launched The 51st, a worker-led nonprofit news outlet, run by and for residents of Washington, D.C.

Heidi N. Moore /
@moorehn: Really great idea. Hope very much that they succeed 🙏

Elahe Izadi /
@elaheizadi: exclusive from me: former DCist staff are launching a new worker-led nonprofit called The 51st to cover local news in Washington, and a fundraising campaign they hope will propel their project into the the future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Tara Francis Chan /
@taramfrancis: Giving advice about running a worker-led nonprofit news outlet is great, but there's nothing like then seeing them launch!! @gaufre: Residents of the nation's capital need more local news! I'm supporting @51stnews and you should too!

Dan Vock /
@danvock: The idea seems to have worked well for @BlockClubCHI. Best of luck to my former colleague @ndelgadillo07 and the rest of the crew!

Martin Austermühle /
@maustermuhle: 🚨If you think D.C. needs more local journalism, here's an amazing chance to help create some! A group of former @dcist and @wamu885 staffers are creating @51stnews, a non-profit worker-led news outlet on all things D.C. And they need your financial help: https://givebutter.com/The51st

@51stnews:
🧵 When DCist was shut down, we watched as so many of you mourned the loss of a vital local news source. A team of us got to thinking: What if we could create an outlet controlled by us (the journalists) and you (our community)? No executives involved.

@jeffjarvis:
With help from the Tiny News Collective. Gift link: Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washington https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Amy L. Kovac-Ashley /
Amy L. Kovac-Ashley on LinkedIn: I'm beyond excited for this news about The 51st for so many reasons: — 🔥 As a DC resident, it's refreshing to see something GOOD come …

Alex Taliadoros /
@alexctaliadoros: Hard to overstate how much DC needs this. Do your thing, friends: https://givebutter.com/The51st [image]

Amanda Michelle Gomez /
@amanduhgomez: I'm so excited to support @51stnews, a newsroom run by journalists for and with the community, no executives involved. I can't tell you how many times the executives of my local newsrooms have stifled reporting by refusing to invest in journalists and stories. Please support:

Ars Technica:

UMG, Sony, and other record labels sue Verizon for $2.6B+ over allegations of violating copyright law by continuing to serve customers accused of pirating music— Lawsuit: One user's IP address was identified in 4,450 infringement notices. — Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday …

Discussion:

Jonathan Bailey /
Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: Chili's Sabotage

Simon Sharwood /
The Register: Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Annemarie Bridy /
@AnnemarieBridy@mastodon.social: Best argument to make that's never been made: Congress did not intend for notices of infringement to create knowledge of repeat infringers on the part of broadband/conduit providers because it did not make notice processing a condition of safe harbor for that specific type of provider in the DMCA. …

Winston Cho /
The Hollywood Reporter: Verizon Hit With $2.6B Anti-Piracy Lawsuit From Major Record Labels

Ethan Millman /
Rolling Stone: Record Labels File $2.6 Billion Lawsuit Against Verizon For ‘Massive’ Infringement Allegations

Dylan Smith /
Digital Music News: The Major Labels Are Suing Verizon — Infringement Complaint Targets Subscribers' Alleged P2P and BitTorrent Piracy

Murray Stassen /
Music Business Worldwide: Record labels have sent ‘hundreds of thousands’ of copyright infringement notices to Verizon. Now they're suing the internet provider for over $2bn

Axios:

Taboola's CEO says the company has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising within the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps; TBLA stock jumps 9%+— - Taboola's effort to build trust with Apple across its various teams and stakeholders was “a multiyear process,'” Singolda said.

Discussion:

Laurie Sullivan /
MediaPost: Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola To Power Native Advertising

Ryan Christoffel /
9to5Mac: Apple taps infamous Taboola as new ad seller for Apple News and Stocks

Simon Owens /
@simondowens@threads.net: Apple News has always undermonetized its large user base, mostly because Apple's always been hesitant to build out ad products. This Taboola partnership may supercharge its advertising sales and result in better revenue sharing for publishers. https://www.axios.com/...

Benedict Evans /
@benedictevans@threads.net: Taboola is the herpes of the internet - this seems a very strange decision from Apple. https://www.axios.com/...

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: NEW: @apple has brought on @taboola to sell ads on its behalf across Apple News and Stocks apps - Taboola will be the exclusive ad seller globally where the apps are available. - NBCU will continue to sell ads in some markets https://www.axios.com/...

Casey Newton /
@crumbler@threads.net: Big win for people who like their news accompanied by horrible garbage links

Joe Rosensteel /
@joesteel@duck.haus: Apple News customers complaining about low quality ads in Apple News has finally moved the needle at Apple ... towards even worse ads. — A+ job, ad bros. High-fives all around. Bonuses for everyone. — https://www.axios.com/...

New York Times:

Pete Wells steps down as the New York Times' restaurant critic after 12 years, citing the toll of the job on his health, but will stay at the paper— Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.

Discussion:
@sapna, @nytimes, The New York Times Company, @davidshepardson and @joeystipek

Discussion:

Sapna Maheshwari /
@sapna: such a fascinating glimpse into the life and challenges of being the best damn restaurant reviewer in NYC. congrats on a terrific run @pete_wells https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes: After 12 years as our restaurant critic, Pete Wells is moving on, leaving a job with many rewards — and maybe too many courses. “I knew I needed to change my life,” he writes, adding: “I can't hack the week-to-week reviewing life anymore.” https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

David Shepardson /
@davidshepardson: This @pete_wells essay on stepping down as @nytimes restaurant critic after 12 years is lovely: https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

Proof:

Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset that contained YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, NPR, and BBC— AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data, but an investigation by Proof News found …

Discussion:
Nieman Lab, Dexerto, The Verge, @benlovejoy, @neilturkewitz, @mkbhd, @juliaangwin, @mkbhd and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:
@benlovejoy: A third-party organization breached YouTube conditions by downloading the data, which was then used by Apple and other tech giants ...

Neil Turkewitz /
@neilturkewitz: This is hysterical. “Among the videos used by AI companies are 146 from Einstein Parrot.” It's a channel featuring an actual parrot. Life imitates stochastic parrots! We have come full circle. @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai

Marques Brownlee /
@mkbhd: Apple has sourced data for their AI from several companies One of them scraped tons of data/transcripts from YouTube videos, including mine Apple technically avoids “fault” here because they're not the ones scraping But this is going to be an evolving problem for a long time

Julia Angwin /
@juliaangwin: Huge investigation from @proof__news today: We reveal the trove of YouTube videos that are being used to train AI models (including Anthropic's Claude). Yes, it includes all your favorite YouTubers - from @hankgreen to @MrBeast to @khanacademy. https://www.proofnews.org/...

Julia Angwin /
@juliaangwin: @MKBHD It's not just Apple. Anthropic's Claude AI is one of the most popular chatbots and they confirmed to us that they are used the YouTube subtitles dataset to train their AI. I wonder if you could test by asking Claude some questions about your reviews! https://www.proofnews.org/...

Marques Brownlee /
@mkbhd: Fun fact, I pay a service (by the minute) for more accurate transcriptions of my own videos, which I then upload to YouTube's back-end. So companies that scrape transcripts are stealing *paid* work in more than one way. Not great.

Ben Lovejoy /
9to5Mac: Apple trained AI models on YouTube content without consent; includes MKBHD videos

New York Times:

FIFA launches an invitation to tender for media rights covering Americas, Asia, and MENA for its Club World Cup, effectively ending its proposed deal with Apple— FIFA has launched an invitation to tender for media rights covering the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East & North Africa regions …

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Graham Dunbar /
Associated Press: FIFA asks for Club World Cup broadcast bids just 11 months before 32-team event launches in US

Alex Silverman /
Sports Business Journal: FIFA seeks Club World Cup media rights bids after Apple talks stall

Martin Ross /
@martingrantross: Fifa is inviting bids for broadcast rights to its revamped and expanded Club World Cup in different international markets after negotiations over a global streaming deal with Apple broke down. https://www.sportbusiness.com/ ...

Martin Ross /
SportBusiness: Fifa starts over with Club World Cup rights tender

Matt Slater /
@mjshrimper: FIFA confirms worst-kept secret in sports media (see below): it has no $1bn rights deal for Club World Cup with Apple or anyone. So it's doing a rights tender in Americas, Asia & MENA now; Europe & rest of Africa soon. Tournament scheduled to start in 11mo https://www.nytimes.com/...

Alex M. Silverman /
@alexmsilverman: New at @SBJ: FIFA is accepting bids for media rights to the next two Club World Cups, including the 2025 edition in the U.S. The news comes after @hellierd and @turnergs reported talks with @Apple had stalled. 🔗 https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ... [image] @fifamedia: FIFA Club World Cup media rights tender open for the Americas, Asia, and Middle East & North Africa for 2025 and 2029 editions. FIFA's new top club competition will feature 32 teams and will be staged between 15 June and 13 July 2025. Read more here: https://inside.fifa.com/... [image]

Tariq Panja /
@tariqpanja: Speaking of a mess, FIFA's Apple deal for 32 team Club World Cup has collapsed to the point where a tender has now been released with less than a year to go. Hubris and poor judgement has led them here. Now market to market dash for cash. Apply here: https://inside.fifa.com/... [image]

Press Gazette:

Paul Webster, the editor of The Guardian's Sunday newspaper The Observer, plans to retire in the fall after six years at the helm and 28 years at the paper— Before becoming editor Webster was The Observer's deputy editor for 22 years. — Paul Webster, the editor of The Observer, will retire from the Sunday newspaper this autumn.

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@janemartinson and @soniasodha

Discussion:

Jane Martinson /
@janemartinson: This is a sad day for departures. Whenever I wrote for the Observer it was to be supported and encouraged by @paulfwebster. He has done a great job

Sonia Sodha /