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 (Elahe Izadi/Washington Post)

Mediagazer: 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 (Elahe Izadi/Washington Post)

Top News:

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

Discussion:

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

Jonathan Chait /
New York Magazine: The Democratic Party's Strange Attraction to Defeatism

Tom Jones /
Poynter: ‘Where are you on this?’ Biden presses Lester Holt on reporting Trump's debate lies

Isabel Keane /
New York Post: MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ returns without mention of why it was pulled over Trump coverage: ‘It is very good to be here’ @ivanthek: Wow. Now Joe Scarborough now going after NBC News management for taking Morning Joe off the air yesterday. @brianstelter

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

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).

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

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

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

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

@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

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

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.

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

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

Colby Hall /
Mediaite: Is MSNBC Taking Morning Joe Off Air in Wake of Trump Shooting an Admission They Can't Do News? @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]

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

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]

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

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.

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.

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

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.”

@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,

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

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]

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: MSNBC Pulls ‘Morning Joe’ in Trump Shooting Aftermath, Airs Breaking News Coverage Instead

@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/ ...

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/...

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.

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

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

Laila Al-Arian /
@lailaalarian: Comments on cable news rationalizing or justifying the mass killing of Palestinian civilians are fine 👍

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

RELATED:

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— The Associated Press photographer who made the now-famous photo said he never thought about the danger of the moment. He was too caught up in his job.

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

David Bauder /
Associated Press: At a Trump rally, shocking images fill TV screens. Then reporters rush to find out what it means

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

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

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

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.

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

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/...

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/...

Tyler Austin Harper /
The Atlantic: A Legendary American Photograph

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

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

Discussion:

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.

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: ‘Daily Show’ Cancels On-The-Ground RNC Plans After Trump Assassination Attempt

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mabinty Quarshie /
Washington Examiner: Tim Scott energizes RNC crowd after Trump passes on senator for VP nod

Fox News:
CNN panel agrees Trump is at his ‘at his apex’ of power going into RNC after surviving attempt on his life Associated Press: Donald Trump arrives in Milwaukee for RNC after assassination attempt heightens security fears

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

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

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

Nellie Andreeva /
Deadline: ‘The Daily Show’ Changes RNC Coverage Plans After Trump Rally Shooting

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

The Verge:
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets

Discussion:
@elonmusk, Mediaite, CNN, @daithaigilbert, @lindayax, MediaPost, @elonmusk, Fast Company, @fredericlambert, @maxwelltani, @bcmerchant, @michaelscherer, @ericnewcomer, @aidnmclaughlin, @lawrencehurley, @ericnewcomer, @jayrosen_nyu, @tysonbrody, @binarybits, @drjbhattacharya, @x, Washington Post, @reckless1280@threads.net, @renee.diresta@threads.net, @willoremus@threads.net, @blakersdozen@threads.net, Wired and Breitbart

Discussion:

Aidan McLaughlin /
Mediaite: In Defense of A Cautious Media

CNN:
Conspiracy theories spread wildly after the first assassination attempt on a US president in the social media age

David Gilbert /
@daithaigilbert: It may be hard to imagine, but it would have meant a world without the flood of conspiracies and disinformation which dominated people's feeds when they were searching for fact-checked and verified information about the shooting https://www.wired.com/...

Linda Yaccarino /
@lindayax: It's hard to imagine a world without X after a weekend like this past weekend. Let's stick together in the days ahead, and stick to X always.

Laurie Sullivan /
MediaPost: Ad Industry Changes Spurred By Assassination Attempt On Former President

Elon Musk /
@elonmusk: I tried using both 𝕏 and legacy media this weekend, but legacy media was so far behind and wrong that it was pointless. When something is wrong on 𝕏, it is corrected very fast, but it stays wrong for hours to days on legacy media.

Chris Stokel-Walker /
Fast Company: After the Trump assassination attempt, Elon Musk's X is a misinformation factory

Fred Lambert /
@fredericlambert: The Trump assassination attempt was a good test of the reporting on X vs traditional media. I followed the event through both, and I can say that I was way better informed by the media than X. Elon and co attacked the media for their cautious headlines, but that's what it was: [image]

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: If he was actually upset about the proliferation of incorrect information, he'd be concerned that his site has been flooded with conspiracy theories and legitimately fake news over the past few days, some of which has been pushed by people he explicitly let back on...

Brian Merchant /
@bcmerchant: This is very dumb on many levels. The media is trying to report as accurate as possible, as quickly as possible—largely to feed the incentives of websites like this one. Meanwhile, the only decent live-ish tweeting of the event I am aware of came from working journalists. [image]

Michael Scherer /
@michaelscherer: All these headlines were updated after shots were confirmed. The alternative would be for news organizations to report an “apparent” shooting or to guess. Journalists don't report what is not confirmed. That is not propaganda. It's real value over the musings on this site.

Eric Newcomer /
@ericnewcomer: In any other instance Silicon Valley would tell people to build a better version rather than endlessly complaining. Create something better but this armchair media criticism when a photographer literally ran toward the president to get photos is infuriating

Eric Newcomer /
@ericnewcomer: My feed here was full of six hour old posts when the news was breaking and x kept mixing in old tweets for many hours, and part of why people are mad about these early headlines is x doesn't have any sense of breaking news anymore and shows way too much old stuff

Aidan McLaughlin /
@aidnmclaughlin: Beyond the fact that most of the news on X is provided directly by “the legacy media,” the idea that any of this reporting on the shooting is propaganda is total nonsense https://www.mediaite.com/...

Lawrence Hurley /
@lawrencehurley: One-eyed media commentary ignores the fact that professional, responsible journalists only publish what they know in the moment because in a breaking news situation there is so much you don't know. And of course much of the accurate information on X comes from journalists.

Eric Newcomer /
@ericnewcomer: X relies on the best photos from the media, key facts from the media, video from the media and then turns around and blames the media for the poor coverage while providing mostly distribution rather than fresh information

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: First 24 hours are ideal conditions for bad media: * Interest in the facts is off the charts, but there is only a handful of them * Bad actors fill the unmet demand * Political discussion silenced by civiltarians * Both sides bromides roar * Memory itself said to be in bad taste

Tyson Brody /
@tysonbrody: was just thinking back to the boston marathon bombing and the subreddit full of detectives, imagine how that goes now (or is going maybe?)

Timothy B. Lee /
@binarybits: Meanwhile, people who claim that “X did a better job” ignore the many inaccurate tweets flying around at any given point in time. https://x.com/...

Timothy B. Lee /
@binarybits: People (justifiably) get mad at “the media” if they get facts wrong. But the also get mad at “the media” if they write cautiously in the early minutes of a developing story to avoid factual errors. Covering breaking news quickly but accurately is hard.

Jay Bhattacharya /
@drjbhattacharya: I think @x did a better job covering the assassination attempt than the media did. Didn't we just hear from the EU lamenting the demise of the Twitter 1.0 blue check? How well did those legacy media blue-check organizations do with breaking news?

Nilay Patel /
@reckless1280@threads.net: Someone please send me Linda Yaccarino's slides explaining how being the most vibrant site for real-time assassination conspiracy theories is great for advertisers

Renee DiResta /
@renee.diresta@threads.net: When you think “content” is synonymous with “information”

Will Oremus /
@willoremus@threads.net: first time i've encountered an official misinfo label on threads and it's wrongly applied to a (correct) debunking post by @shayan86bbc

Blake Montgomery /
@blakersdozen@threads.net: Threads prompting users to search for “conspiracy theories” 😭

David Gilbert /
Wired: Trump Shooting Conspiracies Are Coming From Every Direction

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:
Engadget, Dexerto, Cord Cutters News, The Verge, Hackread, @campuscodi, @h4ckmanac, Variety, The Hill, Reuters, The Wrap, CNN, Wired, Gene Chuang on LinkedIn, Deadline, IGN, @jbflint and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

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

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

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: AI hacktivists target Disney in massive data leak

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’

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

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/...

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

Semafor:

MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints— The News — President Joe Biden has lost the media. Even the most sympathetic outlets — the liberal MSNBC, the gentle NPR …

Discussion:
The Guardian, @semaforben, @michaelkruse, @johnspurlock, @mattyglesias, Mediaite and @jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social

Discussion:

Mehdi Hasan /
The Guardian: Blue Maga: we need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: Smart @maxwelltani piece, a bit overtaken by events, on the viewer rage at liberal media that's questioning Biden's fitness https://www.semafor.com/...

Michael Kruse /
@michaelkruse: “Some of the same people who bemoaned paranoia, ignorance and intolerance among Trump supporters are now exhibiting those exact traits in defense of Biden,” @brianstelter tells @maxwelltani. https://www.semafor.com/...

John Spurlock /
@johnspurlock: ‘Playing on audiences’ political views can be useful in the short term — in particular driving subscriptions, the new lifeline for American news media — but clearly can result in angry readers/subscribers when you tell them what they don't want to hear' https://www.semafor.com/... @mattyglesias: Audience is an issue with any kind of media. I'd been favorable to Biden's renomination until the debate and I've had some angry cancellations since flipping. But overall paid + free subs are both up. https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Mehdi Hasan Hits Out At ‘Cult-like Blue MAGA’ Democrats Quashing Biden Criticism

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'

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

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

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

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

Stuart Dredge /
Music Ally: Labels sue US ISP Verizon in new copyright-infringement case

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:
@colleengrablick, @taramfrancis, @gaufre, @maustermuhle, @amanduhgomez, @petitephd, @moorehn, @51stnews, @danvock, @alexctaliadoros, @elaheizadi, @jeffjarvis and The 51st

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

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!

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

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:

Allison McCague, PhD /
@petitephd: Great news for local journalism. Let's help them thrive, DC!

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

@51stnews:
We've launched The 51st, a worker-led nonprofit news outlet, run by and for residents of Washington, D.C.

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!

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

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/ ...

@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/ ...

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:
Silas Joseph Morgan on LinkedIn

Financial Times:

Sources: DAZN will pay €400M/year for the rights to show the majority of France's Ligue 1 matches, while Qatar-owned beIN will spend €100M for one game per week— Accord with DAZN and BeIN helps stave off financial crisis at some clubs but locks in a lower price than first expected

Discussion:
Broadband TV News and Advanced Television

Discussion:

Julian Clover /
Broadband TV News: DAZN and beIN Sports to screen Ligue 1 football

Colin Mann /
Advanced Television: DAZN, beIN score Ligue 1 rights

RELATED:

The Hollywood Reporter:

Southern California Public Radio names Alejandra Santamaria as its president and CEO; she was previously the interim president and GM of Univision Los Angeles— The Univision veteran succeeds Herb Scannell in the role after he announced plans to retire last fall.

Discussion:
The Wrap, Alejandra Santamaria on LinkedIn, Current, Variety, RADIO ONLINE and Inside Radio

Discussion:

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: LAist and Southern California Public Radio Names Alejandra Santamaria President and CEO

Alejandra Santamaria /
Alejandra Santamaria on LinkedIn: I am excited to share that I am the President and CEO of Southern California Public Radio / LAist! — https://lnkd.in/...

Austin Fuller /
Current: Univision Los Angeles exec Alejandra Santamaria to lead LAist, Southern California Public Radio

Michael Schneider /
Variety: LAist's Southern California Public Radio Taps Univision's Alejandra Santamaria as New President and CEO

Reuters:

Germany bans right-wing extremist magazine Compact, saying it works against the constitutional order, and authorities in four states search its properties— Germany's interior ministry banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a “mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene” …

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Deutsche Welle and Associated Press

Wired:

Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos' fourth boxing tournament in Madrid, with matches between influencers, set a record 3.85M+ concurrent viewers at its peak on July 13— A boxing tournament in Spain didn't need the Fresh Prince's help to become the most popular stream in the platform's history.

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Iarfhlaith Dempsey /
Streams Charts: Ibai breaks personal Twitch & platform viewership records again with 2024 boxing event @twitch: 🚨NEW WORLD RECORD CONFIRMED @IbaiLlanos and the Spanish-speaking community made history one more time. You are legends of the internet. #LaVeladaDelAñoIV [video]

Sam Gutelle /
Tubefilter: Ibai's fourth influencer boxing event set a new Twitch record with 3.85 million concurrent viewers

Wesley Yin-Poole /
IGN: Will Smith Performance Helps Ibai Break Twitch Viewership Record With an Incredible 3.85 Million Concurrent Viewers

Jackie Arias /
Game Rant: Spanish Streamer Ibai Breaks Twitch Viewership Record

Atharv Kapoor /
Sportskeeda: Twitch streamer Ibai's La Velada del Ano 4 breaks previous record with 3.8 million concurrent viewers, sells out Santiago Bernabeu

Grant Taylor-Hill /
Insider Gaming: IBAI SHATTERS TWITCH RECORD AFTER SELLING OUT MADRID'S BERNABÉU STADIUM

Daniel Appleford /
Dexerto: Ibai shatters Twitch's all-time viewership record with La Velada Del Año 4

Financial Times:

An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more— She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …