Sources: Huw Edwards's image and voice are being urgently removed from hours of BBC archive footage, starting with family and entertainment content on iPlayer (Vanessa Thorpe/The Guardian)

Mediagazer: Sources: Huw Edwards's image and voice are being urgently removed from hours of BBC archive footage, starting with family and entertainment content on iPlayer (Vanessa Thorpe/The Guardian)

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Politico:

Trump withdraws from the Sept. 10 ABC debate citing his legal conflicts with the network and Biden ending his campaign, and pitches a Sept. 4 debate on Fox News— The Harris campaign said Saturday that it would be “happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Sun, New York Times, NPR, @keithedwards@threads.net, @craig.forman@threads.net, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, The Wrap, NBC News, CNN, Forbes, @justinbaragona, UPI, BBC, @sahilkapur, @kamalaharris, Boing Boing, HuffPost, Boston Herald, @davidplouffe, @mattmfm, @jason_koebler, @asfried, New York Post, Variety, CBS News, Deadline, San Diego Union-Tribune, @kamalahq, @bgrueskin, ABC7, New York Daily News, TVLine, Rolling Stone and Reuters

Discussion:

Kipp Jones /
Mediaite: Conservatives Insist Harris Honor Agreement to Debate Vance After Dems Bash Trump Over ABC Debate

Phillip Nieto /
Mediaite: Trump Rages If He Doesn't See Kamala Harris In Fox Debate He 'Won't See Her At All!'

Sophie Gable /
The Sun: Trump agrees to Fox News debate against Kamala Harris in front of ‘full arena audience’ & reveals ‘conflict of interest’ New York Times: Trump Cancels a Debate With Harris on ABC News and Pitches One With Fox News Instead

Willem Marx /
NPR: Trump posts about a new debate plan, and Harris pushes back

Keith Edwards /
@keithedwards@threads.net: Doing a “debate” on a network that had to payout $700M+ because they lied about the 2020 election is a nonstarter

Craig Forman /
@craig.forman@threads.net: Newsroom internal discussions of headlines are often like trading-room floor discussions of long positions: very closely held. But @nytimes headline ‘evolution’ on today's Harris-Trump ‘Debate’ story raises more questions than answers. What actually happened here? In order from (L to R 'current headline')

Meg Kinnard /
Los Angeles Times: Trump says he'll skip an ABC debate in September and wants to face Harris on Fox News

Christy Piña /
The Hollywood Reporter: Trump Backs Out of Harris Debate on ABC News, Agrees to One on Fox News

Jacob Bryant /
The Wrap: Kamala Harris Sticks to Previously Agreed ABC Debate, Campaign Calls Donald Trump ‘Scared’ for Demanding Fox News ‘Bail Him Out’

Antonio Pequeño IV /
Forbes: Trump Backs Out Of Debate And Proposes Another On Fox News—Harris Claims He's ‘Running Scared’

Justin Baragona /
@justinbaragona: Here's Drudge Report's headline on Trump backing out of the ABC News debate with Harris: [image]

Tom Bennett /
BBC: Trump and Harris at odds over presidential debate

Sahil Kapur /
@sahilkapur: Donald Trump backs out of a previously scheduled presidential debate on ABC after Kamala Harris replaces Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket. Now he says he'll agree to debate Harris if it's hosted by Fox News in a “full arena audience.” [image]

Kamala Harris /
@kamalaharris: It's interesting how “any time, any place” becomes “one specific time, one specific safe space.” I'll be there on September 10th, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there.

Ben Blanchet /
HuffPost: Trump Says He's Agreed To Fox News Debate, In Apparent Attempt To Avoid Harris On ABC

Joe Dwinell /
Boston Herald: Trump agrees to debate Harris Sept. 4 on Fox, she's sticking with ABC offer

David Plouffe /
@davidplouffe: Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to. One just like the debate he did in June. Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.

Matt McDermott /
@mattmfm: Keep seeing a talking point from Trump supporters that Trump agreed to “debate Biden” on ABC. That's not accurate: Trump agreed to debate terms that invite any and all candidates who meet a polling and ballot access threshold. The terms did not specify Biden.

Jason Koebler /
@jason_koebler: No update or correction notes on radically different headlines for the same story is not something that passes editorial or ethical muster at any place I've ever worked including the independently owned website we now run

Amy Fried /
@asfried: Trump backs out of the planned debate on September 10 on ABC. He then unilaterally sets a new date, changes the hosts to Fox and says that, instead of no audience, it will be in an arena. And this is how the NY Times headline reads: @DougJBalloon [image]

Patrick Reilly /
New York Post: Trump says he's agreed to Fox News offer to debate Kamala Harris on Sept. 4

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Trump Pulls Out of ABC Debate With Harris, Makes Pitch for Fox News Deadline: Kamala Harris' Campaign Says Donald Trump “Needs To Stop Playing Games” As He Floats Fox News Debate And Refuses To Do ABC News Event — Update

Bill Grueskin /
@bgrueskin: First try: Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate Second try: Trump Proposes a Fox News Debate Third try: Trump Backs Out of ABC Debate and Proposes One on Fox (That's why Philip Graham called journalism “the first rough draft of history,” folks) [image]

Jon Haworth /
ABC7: Trump says he agreed to Fox News debate on Sept. 4

Muri Assunção /
New York Daily News: Harris campaign says Trump is ‘running scared’ as he backs out of ABC debate, pushes for Fox News

Matt Webb Mitovich /
TVLine: Kamala Harris Calls Out Donald Trump for Backing Out of Sept. 10 Debate on ABC

Daniel Kreps /
Rolling Stone: Kamala Harris' Campaign Blasts ‘Scared’ Trump for Proposing Fox News Debate

Jarrett Renshaw /
Reuters: New ads calling Trump ‘afraid to debate’ to follow him on campaign trail

The Guardian:

Sources: Huw Edwards's image and voice are being urgently removed from hours of BBC archive footage, starting with family and entertainment content on iPlayer— Broadcaster removes image and voice from content as Welsh organisations erase disgraced presenter from websites

Discussion:
Metro.co.uk, Sky News, The Independent, The Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star, ITV News, BBC, Telegraph, The Mirror, Variety, Adweek, PinkNews and Deadline

Discussion:

Tomos Evans /
Sky News: Huw Edwards: Mural of former BBC newsreader removed as institutions ‘review’ honours

Madeline Sherratt /
The Independent: Huw Edwards plaque removed from Cardiff Castle wall

Rebecca Jones /
Daily Express: Huw Edwards to be removed from Doctor Who episode following guilty plea

Dominik Lemanski /
Daily Star: Paedo BBC newsreader Huw Edwards ‘set to be removed from hit James Bond film’

Noor Nanji /
BBC: BBC starts removing Huw Edwards from archives

Craig Simpson /
Telegraph: BBC may remove Huw Edwards's voice from Queen's funeral and King's coronation coverage

Mia O'Hare /
The Mirror: What BBC may do with Huw Edwards footage - including Queen's death announcement

Naman Ramachandran /
Variety: Huw Edwards-Featuring Episodes of ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Great British Menu’ Pulled by BBC, Mural in Hometown Painted Over as Fallout Continues

Mark Mwachiro /
Adweek: Ticker: Former BBC News Presenter Huw Edwards Pleads Guilty

Michele Theil /
PinkNews: David Tennant-era Doctor Who episode featuring Huw Edwards removed from BBC iPlayer

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:
@ckrewson, @mjrusher, @tatecurtis, @jayrosen_nyu, @dlboardman, @jayrosen_nyu, @robyntomlin, @jfkwia, @mawilner, @tatecurtis and @andybechtel@mastodon.online

Discussion:

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.

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

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/ ... @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/ ...

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

Discussion:

Margaret Sullivan /
The Guardian: I feel joy at my friend Evan Gershkovich's release. But the anger lingers

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/...

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

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.")<<

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.

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.

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

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.”

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.

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]

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

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/ ...

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]

Chris Roush /
Talking Biz News: Bloomberg broke Gershkovich embargo

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 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 Fox News: WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich released by Russia in prisoner swap; Paul Whelan also being freed

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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 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

Wall Street Journal:
Russia frees Evan Gershkovich, RFE/RL reporter Alsu Kurmasheva, and others as part of a prisoner swap involving 24 prisoners and at least six countries Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ: Release of Gershkovich, Kurmasheva welcome, but Russia must stop stifling reporting

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:
@kristendesilva, Metro.co.uk, @4evrmalone, Deadline, New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Tubefilter, The Wrap, Kotaku and @simondowens@threads.net

Discussion:

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

Pierra Willix /
Metro.co.uk: Contestants on huge reality TV show with $5,000,000 prize ‘barely fed’ and ‘refused medication’

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]

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

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

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

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

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/...

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:
@edeggans@threads.net, Los Angeles Times, @edeggans@threads.net, @kbode@threads.net, Adweek, HuffPost, Eric Deggans on LinkedIn, Columbia Journalism Review, MediaPost, American Press Institute, NABJ, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, Advocate and The TRiiBE

Discussion:

Eric Deggans /
@edeggans@threads.net: At a membership meeting today, NABJ's executive director said ABC's Rachel Scott had received death threats following her work asking incisive questions of Donald Trump at the groups national convention Wednesday.

Gustavo Arellano /
Los Angeles Times: The California roots of Trump's anti-immigrant pitch to Black voters

Eric Deggans /
@edeggans@threads.net: We are a journalism organization which has invited the major party candidates to our national conference every presidential election year for decades. There is a former NABJ official with documents indicating we invited Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Karl Bode /
@kbode@threads.net: the “live fact checking” required people head to a third party website, which was a useless way to rein in a sociopathic authoritarian in real time anyway

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

Eric Deggans /
Eric Deggans on LinkedIn: As a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists, I've gotten lots of requests for my thoughts on Trump's visit Wednesday to our conference. …

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

Discussion:

Nathalie Baptiste /
HuffPost: The Real Reason Donald Trump Is Making Racist Comments About Kamala Harris

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/...

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/...

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

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 CBS News: Trump falsely questions Harris' race at National Association of Black Journalists conference

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

Discussion:

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]

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/ ...

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.

Bradly Shankar /
Bradly Shankar on LinkedIn: Absolutely devastating to hear about Game Informer shutting down. 💔 — I have so many fond memories of going to the mall with my mum and picking up the latest GI issues. …

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

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]

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).

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.

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 …

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

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. …

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

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

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

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

Discussion:

Nick Robins-Early /
The Guardian: US sues TikTok and ByteDance for allegedly failing to protect children's privacy

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs /
Forbes: U.S. Government Sues TikTok—Claims App Violated Privacy Of Children ABC News: Justice Department sues TikTok, alleging the social media company violated a children's online privacy law

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

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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Lauren Elkies Schram /
New York Post: Meta offering millions in AI deals to Judy Dench, Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key: report

Mike Roe /
The Wrap: Meta Offers Millions to Awkwafina, Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key to Use Their Voices for AI

Wes Davis /
The Verge: Meta courts celebs like Awkwafina to voice AI assistants ahead of Meta Connect

Mariella Moon /
Engadget: Meta is reportedly offering millions to use Hollywood voices in AI projects @grahamelot: @DiscussingFilm If you choose to speak to chatbot with the voice of Awkwafina, you have more pressing issues

M.G. Siegler /
@mgsiegler: I feel like these celebs should talk to Meta's celeb AI chatbots about this one...

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: New: Meta is paying Hollywood actors millions to license their voices for a new AI voice product. It should be announced in the fall and Hollywood's primary union for actors has agreed to the deal. More here: https://www.bloomberg.com/... @thebronxviking: $META upped their cap-ex to $96-$99Billion in 2025 so you could have an AI chatbot of Judi Dench.... I have changed my mind, we are definitely in a bubble 🫠

Ben Williams /
@wenbbilliams: They're gonna trick Dame Judi into doing this by saying some technobabble shit she doesn't even understand then she'll say yes then use her voice to keep her “alive” after she dies, guarantee. So fucking cynical. @carriecnh12: That deal that SAG-AFTRA struck last year left Voice Actors - who are on strike! - vulnerable to being pushed out of film work by this very possiblity. SAG-AFTRA threw them under the bus for AI, which has disastrous effects on the environment and functions through plagiarism.

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

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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.”

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.

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

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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 @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. …

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

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

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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 /