WBD sues the NBA over the league's "unjustified" decision to sell a package of media rights to Amazon, to which WBD claims to have a "contractual right" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer: WBD sues the NBA over the league's “unjustified” decision to sell a package of media rights to Amazon, to which WBD claims to have a “contractual right” (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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The Hollywood Reporter:

A US judge rules Disney must face Gina Carano's wrongful termination lawsuit, denying Disney's claim of a 1A right to employ actors to promote certain values— Carano sued Disney earlier this year over her termination from the Disney+ series, with Elon Musk backing the effort.
Discussion: Deadline, Bloomberg Law, Screen Rant, Forbes, TVNewsCheck, Gizmodo, AV Club, Rolling Stone, World of Reel, Reclaim The Net, Fox News and HuffPost

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Dominic Patten /
Deadline: Gina Carano Beats Disney's Move To Kill ‘Mandalorian’ Firing Suit; Now Trial Looms

Maia Spoto /
Bloomberg Law: A US judge rules Disney must face Gina Carano's wrongful termination lawsuit as it failed to establish that it employs actors to promote values like inclusion

Thomas Bacon /
Screen Rant: Gina Carano's Mandalorian Lawsuit Looks Like It's Headed To Court After All

Gordon Jackson /
Gizmodo: Gina Carano's Mandalorian Lawsuit Is Probably Heading to Trial

William Hughes /
AV Club: Judge slaps down Disney efforts to toss out Gina Carano's Mandalorian lawsuit

Daniel Kreps /
Rolling Stone: Judge Denies Disney's Bid to Dismiss Gina Carano's Wrongful Termination Lawsuit

Cindy Harper /
Reclaim The Net: Court Allows Gina Carano's Free Speech Lawsuit Against Disney To Proceed Fox News: Ex-'Mandalorian' star Gina Carano's lawsuit against Disney to proceed after judge denies motion to dismiss

Press Gazette:

Mail Online, The Independent, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express roll out “consent or pay” walls charging users £1.99 to £4 per month for cookie-less access— Mail Online, The Independent and the websites of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express have begun requiring readers …

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@paezha@mastodon.online

Flipboard adds feeds for 60+ US-based local and regional publications to the fediverse, including Texas Monthly, Honolulu Civil Beat, and CalMatters— BYCARL SULLIVAN — Has local news ever been more important? Journalists who live in the communities they serve don't just keep residents informed …

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@FlipboardMagazines …, @michellemanafy@journa.host, @mastodonmigration …, Annie Snodgrass Dennett on LinkedIn, Carl Sullivan on LinkedIn, @timothyjchambers@threads.net, @Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it, @kevingamin@twit.social, @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca, @mike@flipboard.social, @FlipboardMagazines … and @Flipboard@flipboard.social

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@FlipboardMagazines@flipboard.social: If you call the American Southeast home, join us in welcoming these local news outlets to the fediverse! Follow these accounts to stay up on the latest local news and happenings in your area. — The Atlanta Journal, @ajcnews — AL.com, @AlcomNews — Carolina Public Press, @CPublicPress …

Michelle Manafy /
@michellemanafy@journa.host: Fliboard is bringing 64 U.S.-based local and regional publications to the fediverse. You can follow the publisher's profile to see everything they post, or you can follow their topically curated feeds — https://about.flipboard.com/ ... @Flipboard — #news @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online: Ok, this is pretty huge! — Open social media pioneer @Flipboard is bringing local news to the Fediverse! — Read all about it! — https://about.flipboard.com/ ... Great job Flipboard!

Annie Snodgrass Dennett /
Annie Snodgrass Dennett on LinkedIn: I am excited to share that the Flipboard team has federated 64 local news publications! Local news is as important as ever but feeling pressure from many fronts. …

Carl Sullivan /
Carl Sullivan on LinkedIn: Local news is so incredibly important for our communities and our democracy. Sadly, many local media organizations have gone out of business or been forced to cut staff. …

Tim Chambers /
@timothyjchambers@threads.net: The incredibly important open social web work by @flipboard continues, and once @threads fully supports the Fediverse all of these accounts will be available here too. fediverse threads https://about.flipboard.com/ ... @Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it: @chris @mike @SunSentinel @Gothamist @AustinMonitor Nice! I'd been following a scraping bot for Gothamist, but it only syncs once/day.

Kevin Gamin /
@kevingamin@twit.social: @mike Just added the Cleveland.com feed. Thank you for providing this service!

Chris Alemany /
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca: @mike @SunSentinel @Gothamist @AustinMonitor this is so important! Congrats.

Mike McCue /
@mike@flipboard.social: Hello fediverse. Today we federated 63 awesome local publications like @SunSentinel, @Gothamist and @AustinMonitor. — Local news is critical to the communities we live in and so we're excited and grateful to help bring some of the best local publications to the fediverse. — You can learn more here: …

@FlipboardMagazines@flipboard.social:
If you live in the Northeast, join us in welcoming these local news outlets to the fediverse! Follow these accounts to stay up on local news and happenings in your area. — Gothamist, @Gothamist — Hidden City Philadelphia, @HiddenCityPhila — Investigative Post, @Investigati39q0 … @Flipboard@flipboard.social: Local news matters, now more than ever. So a few weeks ago, we asked you for your thoughts on federating local papers in the USA — where you're located, and the specific publications you'd like to see. You responded, with ideas, suggestions, and an education on American geography. …

The Hollywood Reporter:

WBD sues the NBA over the league's “unjustified” decision to sell a package of media rights to Amazon, to which WBD claims to have a “contractual right”— The company had sought to match a proposal from Amazon Prime Video, but the league said that it “did not match the terms” of the deal.

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Mediaite, Puck, CNBC, CNN, Variety, The Wrap, Reuters, Awful Announcing, The Streamable, Sports Media Watch, New York Post, StreamTV Insider, Sportico, Adweek, USA Today and Mercury News

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Ahmad Austin Jr /
Mediaite: TBS, Warner Bros. Discovery File Lawsuit Against NBA Over Media Rights Deal

John Ourand /
Puck: How Zaz Lost the NBA

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues NBA, Pushes Rights Showdown to Court

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Over NBA's ‘Unjustified’ Rejection of Matching Rights Proposal

David Satin /
The Streamable: The Ball Is in Your Court! Warner Bros. Discovery Files Lawsuit Against NBA Over Broadcast Rights

Jon Lewis /
Sports Media Watch: WBD files suit against NBA

Ryan Glasspiegel /
New York Post: Warner Bros. Discovery sues NBA over matching rights clause with league preferring Amazon to TNT

Bevin Fletcher /
StreamTV Insider: Warner Bros. Discovery cries foul in NBA rights deal

Michael McCann /
Sportico: NBA Blocking TNT's Media Rights Shot Could Force Legal Jump Ball

Mike D. Sykes /
USA Today: 3 big questions about the future of NBA on TNT after the league officially announces Amazon deal

Bloomberg:

A look at Joe Rogan's comedy club in Austin, called The Mothership, and the network of comedians and podcast hosts he has supported and attracted to the city— The world's most controversial podcaster opened a comedy club there, snatched the stand-up title from Los Angeles and shook up an entire industry.

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Alex Griffing /
Mediaite: Tucker Carlson Dethrones Joe Rogan From Atop The Coveted Spotify Podcast Rankings

Jenn Gidman /
Newser: Tucker Carlson Has a Surprise for Joe Rogan

The Guardian:

Journalists strike at outlets owned by Australia's Nine; ~20 of the company's journalists who traveled to Paris to cover the Olympics are among those striking— Age reporter questions expense of flying TV personality to Europe while up to 90 staff are cut from newsrooms. Plus: Murdoch's real-life succession drama

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Al Jazeera, @niltiac, @kishor_nr and Mumbrella

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@niltiac: They say this is about revenue decline because of the loss of Meta money and the slump in ad revenue. It could also be about the Nine share price, which has tanked in part because of the revelations of sexual misconduct and bullying in the TV division, which we've reported on.

@niltiac:
Nine Publishing, the newspaper division of Nine that publishes the former Fairfax papers like SMH, is a “really profitable business” according to our execs. They've said without the 70-90 job cuts it would still be profitable, just not quite as profitable.

@niltiac:
I feel for my colleagues on strike, who'll lose pay over this. I feel for my colleagues in exempt positions struggling to put out the news. I feel for my colleagues in Paris longing to bring you the best Olympics coverage, bar none. This is not fun. We decided it was necessary.

Kishor /
@kishor_nr: My colleagues and I are striking because Nine won't offer us fair wages. Meanwhile the CEO is living his best life at the Olympics and refuses to answer questions about the terrible optics of this [image]

Wall Street Journal:

OpenAI says it partnered with publishers such as News Corp and The Atlantic to build its SearchGPT search tool; publishers can manage how their content appears— Built with input from publishers, SearchGPT will summarize real-time information on websites — OpenAI is launching a test version …

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The Verge, Quartz, Mark Schaefer on LinkedIn, Shelly Palmer, Press Gazette, Engadget, Financial Times, RTÉ, The Wrap, Deadline, Arun Arunachalam on LinkedIn, CNN, The Cyber Express, New York Times, The Guardian, Fast Company, Wired, Gizmodo, The Drum, Tech Xplore, CNBC, The Register, The Media Leader, New York Post, Search Engine Land, Neowin, VentureBeat, BGR, @chris@threads.net, The Information, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, Semafor and iPhone in Canada Blog

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Kylie Robison /
The Verge: OpenAI is releasing a prototype of its search engine to rival Google, Perplexity

Britney Nguyen /
Quartz: OpenAI's Apple deal could be a bigger threat to Google than SearchGPT, analysts say

Mark Schaefer /
Mark Schaefer on LinkedIn: Well this is going to shake things up. — https://lnkd.in/...

JD Knapp /
The Wrap: OpenAI Testing Google Competitor SearchGPT

Bruce Haring /
Deadline: OpenAI Launches SearchGPT, Potential Google Challenger

Arun Arunachalam /
Arun Arunachalam on LinkedIn: 🚀 Proud Moment: Our Team's Role in the SearchGPT Launch! 🚀 — I'm thrilled to share that our engineering team …

Clare Duffy /
CNN: OpenAI is testing an artificial intelligence search engine

Mihir Bagwe /
The Cyber Express: OpenAI's SearchGPT: A Game Changer or Pandora's Box for Cybersecurity Pros?

Nick Robins-Early /
The Guardian: OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race

Kyle Barr /
Gizmodo: OpenAI Hopes to Take on Google With SearchGPT

Matthew Connatser /
The Register: OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT - not that you're allowed to use it yet

Sabrina Quagliozzi /
The Media Leader: OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine, vying for Google's crown

Thomas Barrabi /
New York Post: OpenAI tests ‘SearchGPT’ prototype as direct challenge to Google search engine

Danny Goodwin /
Search Engine Land: OpenAI starts testing SearchGPT prototype, here's what it looks like

José Adorno /
BGR: OpenAI challenges Google with AI search engine SearchGPT

Chris Messina /
@chris@threads.net: OpenAI just rolled out a “search prototype” that's ultimately competitive with Microsoft AND Google... AND @perplexity.ai! The difference is that OpenAI signed a bunch of content deals and will privilege those who chose to partner rather than sue... Nice move @nxthompson — getting ahead of the @nytimes!

Stephanie Palazzolo /
The Information: OpenAI Announces AI-Powered Search Engine, SearchGPT

Kyle Wiggers /
TechCrunch: With Google in its sights, OpenAI unveils SearchGPT

Ryan Christoffel /
9to5Mac: SearchGPT, the long anticipated OpenAI search engine, launches today with waitlist

Shirin Ghaffary /
Bloomberg: OpenAI Tests New AI Search Features in Direct Challenge to Google

Claire Cameron /
Semafor: OpenAI announces SearchGPT in direct challenge to Google

Austin Blake /
iPhone in Canada Blog: OpenAI SearchGPT Waitlist: AI Comes to Search

The Guardian:

Keir Starmer says reviving the second part of the Leveson inquiry into the relationship between UK media and police is not among his government's priorities— Press regulation campaigners accuse prime minister of lacking courage to stand up to newspaper owners

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@therightarticle@mas.to

The Hollywood Reporter:

Charter lost 393K residential pay TV subscribers in Q2, compared to a loss of 189K in Q2 2023; overall video customers were 13.3M, down 9.5% YoY— The cable giant, led by CEO Chris Winfrey, also shed 154,000 broadband customers after the end of government subsidies.

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StreamTV Insider, MediaPost, Charter Communications, TVNewsCheck, Media Play News, Next TV and Reuters

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Wayne Friedman /
MediaPost: Charter Sees Steeper Q2 Video Subscriber Declines, Broadband Fares Better

Etan Vlessing /
TVNewsCheck: Charter Loses 393,000 Video Subs In Second Quarter

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Charter Loses 393,000 Video, 154,000 Internet Q2 Subscribers

Jon Lafayette /
Next TV: Internet, Video Losses Continue for Charter

Harshita Mary Varghese /
Reuters: Charter Communications posts fewer broadband subscriber loss, profit beat

The Marshall Project:

The Marshall Project launches Investigate This!, an effort to share data and tools with local newsrooms to support strong, original stories on criminal justice— Our toolkits will offer data, storytelling and engagement resources to empower more criminal justice reporting in local communities

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@michellemanafy@journa.host

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Michelle Manafy /
@michellemanafy@journa.host: The Marshall Project is launching a new initiative called Investigate This! to empower criminal justice journalism in local communities. They want to connect journalists and other newsrooms with resources and data to help with their creation of strong, original stories that have the potential for significant local impact. …

Variety:

Amazon MGM Studios signs a deal with Netflix's ex-head of film Scott Stuber to release movies from his new production company under the United Artists label— Amazon MGM Studios has entered into a multi-year film partnership with Scott Stuber, the former head of film at Netflix.

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The Wrap, Reuters, IndieWire, World of Reel, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, The Playlist and Awards Radar

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Adam Chitwood /
The Wrap: Amazon MGM Studios Sets Deal With Scott Stuber, Will Relaunch United Artists

Brian Welk /
IndieWire: United Artists Is Back: Former Netflix Chief Scott Stuber to Head Label Under Amazon MGM

Jordan Ruimy /
World of Reel: United Artists is Back! To Be Headed by Scott Stuber.

Mike Fleming Jr /
Deadline: Scott Stuber Closes Deal To Revive United Artists

Gregory Ellwood /
The Playlist: United Artists Lives Yet Again Powered By Producer Scott Stuber

Maxance Vincent /
Awards Radar: Scott Stuber to Join Amazon MGM Studios to Bring Back United Artists

Washington Post:

A look at the flood of “fancam” Kamala Harris videos and memes on short-form video platforms, echoing the “meme armies” that backed Donald Trump's campaigns— A grassroots network of TikTok creators, energized by the new likely Democratic nominee …

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Conor Murray /
Forbes: Kamala Harris Chases TikTok Trends—And Rakes In Big Views—In Bid For Gen Z Votes

Alex Kantrowitz /
@kantrowitz: Yeah, that ban isn't happening

Drew Harwell /
@drewharwell: New: We talked to the fancam TikTokers who built Kamala Harris a giant viral messaging machine overnight. They're teenagers and political novices; one runs an account about Jersey Shore. But they've mobilized in a way unseen since the Obama days https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @jeffjarvis: It would be in Democrats' interest — not to mention that of free speech — to forestall or end plans for a TikTok ban. An online army rises, this time on Kamala Harris's side https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Rafal Hill /
@rafalhill: The online army consists mostly of young people who know how to use the social media. Kamala Harris speaks to young people. This is refreshing and gives me so much hope. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Rachel Van Dongen /
@rachelvand: Yunker says memes “a language” for her Gen ... 'We're so used to just feeling like there's nothing we can do...This is the 1st time in a long time where we've thought maybe, maybe, fingers crossed, things cld start turning around." https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Kamala Harris /
@kamalaharris: See you on TikTok. https://tiktok.com/... [video]

Jamie Cohen, PhD /
Jamie Cohen, PhD on LinkedIn: The problem with “Dark Brandon” is that it was structured on top of problematic memes. The memes helping Harris are the opposite, built organically, and foster a joy-based vibe. …

Simon Owens /
Simon Owens on LinkedIn: It can be easy to mock “meme armies,” but individual social media users have more collective reach than the entire mainstream media …

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Kamala Harris Joins TikTok

Andrew Unterberger /