YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer: YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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CNN:

Brian Stelter returns to CNN as chief media analyst, appearing on air, developing digital content, and serving as lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter— Hello again, it's Brian Stelter — yes, really. — I am thrilled to share that I am returning as the lead author …
Discussion: New York Times, Media Nation, Adweek, Next TV, @justinbaragona, Advanced Television, Poynter, @sree, @brianstelter, @editorialiste, @deggans, @sherman4949, @wjcarter, @dylanbyers, @brianstelter, @pauljacobsmedia, @johnberman, @brianstelter, @timmcguire, @brianstelter, @sarafischer, @briancormier, @brianstelter, New York Post, Fox News, @digiphile@threads.net, @thedailybeast@threads.net, The Daily Beast, The Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, TVLine, The Hill, Variety, The Wrap, TVNewsCheck, Deadline and Barrett Media

Discussion:

Benjamin Mullin /
New York Times: Brian Stelter Returns to CNN as Chief Media Analyst

Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: The looming competition between Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy is also a test for free versus paid

Ethan Alter /
Adweek: Brian Stelter Returns to CNN

Michael Malone /
Next TV: Brian Stelter Back to CNN as Chief Media Analyst

Justin Baragona /
@justinbaragona: What's old is new again! @brianstelter is returning to CNN as its chief media analyst and retaking the reins of Reliable Sources, which Oliver Darcy left last month. According to Stelter's note this evening, the newsletter will officially relaunch on Sept. 9. [image] Advanced Television: Stelter back at CNN — Brian Stelter, the media reporter who left CNN two years ago amid differences …

Tom Jones /
Poynter: Brian Stelter returns to CNN

Sree Sreenivasan /
@sree: Happy birthday, @brianstelter! I guess you CAN go home again! Everyone should sign up new (old) newsletter, coming Sept. 9: https://cnn.com/... From @Erik_Hayden @THR https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Just in time for the election, indeed

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: @Hadas_Gold ... ...and I experienced the news more like an everyday consumer. In doing so, I learned a whole lot about the attention economy and the information ecosystem. So this time around will be different, because I am different.

Andrew Nusca /
@editorialiste: we love a boomerang.

Alex Sherman /
@sherman4949: Does Chris Licht have a gif

Bill Carter /
@wjcarter: Great move by CNN bringing back Brian Stelter, one of the best and most indefatigable media reporters ever to work the beat. Can't wait for Reliable Sources report to return 9/9. Sure it will invaluable as it always was under Brian and successor, Oliver Darcy. Welcome back Brian!

Dylan Byers /
@dylanbyers: #Scoop @PuckNews: Two years after his termination from CNN, former host and media correspondent Brian Stelter is returning to the network full time, per reliable sources. Formal announcement expected tomorrow. (Or today now!)

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Simply put, CNN feels like home. Those three iconic letters are magnetic. So it's time to get back to work...

Paul Jacobs /
@pauljacobsmedia: I realize I work in media, but it never made sense why @CNN cut @brianstelter It was a really good show that provided important insight into media coverage - especially important this election season when many outlets need to up their game.

John Berman /
@johnberman: Patrick and I are both so happy!!! [image]

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: I'm returning to @CNN in a brand new role as Chief Media Analyst. I'll be appearing on TV, developing digital content, and once again helming the Reliable Sources newsletter.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: @Hadas_Gold ... and I was incredibly lucky to have time as a stay-at-home dad. In the hours when Sunny and Story were at school, I tried on a variety of other hats: Harvard fellow, BBC talking head, magazine writer. I wrote for 20+ outlets and learned about the ups and downs of freelancing...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: @Hadas_Gold ... And now I get to collaborate with them again. The Reliable Sources newsletter will officially relaunch on Monday. We're going to reimagine the digest and deliver what you value most. Everyone and everything is a source now. So what's reliable?

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: Huge congrats to @cnn and @brianstelter — the best of the best. Can't wait to see you back in my inbox.

Brian Cormier /
@briancormier: This is great! The best news I've heard all day! A good day for Brians. 🙂 Congratulations, @brianstelter!!

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: We wanted Reliable Sources readers to find out first. So I wrote them a letter: https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ... [image]

David Propper /
New York Post: Brian Stelter back at CNN 2 years after he was fired during network shakeup: ‘Yes, really’

Alex Howard /
@digiphile@threads.net: I'm surprised: @CNNReliableSources is rebooted, with @BrianStelter back at the helm of the media industry newsletter, working with a team of reporters, & back on-air, as an analyst. Good news for all involved. Investing in media reporting is a positive signal of @CNN's direction. …

Erik Hayden /
The Hollywood Reporter: Brian Stelter Rejoins CNN

Charlie Nash /
Mediaite: Brian Stelter Returns to CNN

Rebecca Iannucci /
TVLine: Brian Stelter Returning to CNN Two Years After Reliable Sources Cancellation

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Brian Stelter returning to CNN as chief media analyst

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Brian Stelter Returns to CNN as Chief Media Analyst and ‘Reliable Sources’ Author

Natalie Korach /
TVNewsCheck: Brian Stelter Returns To CNN As Chief Media Analyst & ‘Reliable Sources’ Author

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: Brian Stelter Returns To CNN As Chief Media Analyst, Reliable Sources Newsletter Lead Author

Associated Press:

A district court judge orders Trump to stop using Isaac Hayes' Hold On, I'm Coming, pending further review; others have objected to Trump's use of their songs— A federal judge in Atlanta ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump and his campaign must stop using the song “Hold On, I'm Coming” …

Discussion:
Plagiarism Today, UPI, CMU, CNN, New York Times, ComingSoon.net, New Republic, Courthouse News Service, The Hill, The Wrap, USA Today, The Guardian, HuffPost, Digital Music News, KVUE-TV, Variety, Billboard, Consequence, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Deadline, WXIA-TV and Copyright Lately

Discussion:

Jonathan Bailey /
Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: RIP FMovies

Chris Cooke /
CMU: Judge orders Trump to stop playing Isaac Hayes song amid dispute over date of BMI exclusion

Anubhav Chaudhry /
ComingSoon.net: What Happened to Donald Trump & Isaac Hayes? Song Controversy Explained

Megan Butler /
Courthouse News Service: Trump campaign ordered to stop using 'Hold On, I'm Coming' after lawsuit from Isaac Hayes family

Sarah Fortinsky /
The Hill: Judge orders Trump campaign to stop using song 'Hold On, I'm Coming' ahead of lawsuit from Isaac Hayes family

Raquel ‘Rocky’ Harris /
The Wrap: Trump Ordered to Stop Using Isaac Hayes Song 'Hold On (I'm Coming)' at Rallies

Edward Segarra /
USA Today: Donald Trump's campaign prohibited from using Isaac Hayes song after lawsuit threat

Richard Luscombe /
The Guardian: Trump ordered by judge to stop playing Isaac Hayes song at campaign rallies KVUE-TV: Attorneys for family of Isaac Hayes say judge orders halt to Trump campaign using 'Hold On, I'm Coming'

Bill Donahue /
Billboard: Isaac Hayes Estate Wins Court Injunction Against Trump Campaign Over Use of His Song at Rallies

Jon Blistein /
Rolling Stone: Donald Trump Has to Stop Playing 'Hold On, I'm Coming' at Rallies, Judge Rules

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: Judge Says Donald Trump Campaign Has To Stop Using “Hold On, I'm Coming” Amid Isaac Hayes Estate Lawsuit

Meleah Lyden /
WXIA-TV: Attorneys for family of Isaac Hayes say judge orders halt to Trump campaign using 'Hold On, I'm Coming'

Financial Times:

Interviews with Sony executives, including CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, on why the company needed to shift its focus from distribution to the creation of IP and more— Tech group joins Netflix, Apple and Amazon in spending war as it targets greater share of $3tn entertainment industry

Discussion:
Advanced Television, Metro.co.uk and PlayStation LifeStyle

Status:

Source: CNN CEO Mark Thompson is in serious conversations with Josh Tyrangiel to hire him; Tyrangiel is currently a WaPo columnist and was Vice news chief— While news of Tyrangiel's potential hire is sure to excite many at CNN, it's not difficult to see how others at the network might not be so thrilled.

Discussion:
@justinling.bsky.social

The Independent:

Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane— Self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed Winston Churchill ‘was the villain of Second World War’ and that millions …

Discussion:
@tuckercarlson, Haaretz, @rmac18, @liz_cheney, @renee.diresta@threads.net, @coreypein.bsky.social, @morten, @crumbler@threads.net, UnHerd, @carlquintanilla, @joelpollak, @chosennj@threads.net, OutsideTheBeltway, Newsweek, @thetnholler@threads.net, @mcuban, @ronaldfilipkowski@threads.net, Newsweek, @legalminimum.bsky.social, The Daily Beast, @katzonearth.bsky.social, @brokentoys.social, @osullyville.bsky.social and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Tucker Carlson /
@tuckercarlson: Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two. (1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (12:39) The Jonestown Cult (32:10) World War Two (45:04) How [video]

Ben Samuels /
Haaretz: Tucker Carlson Platforms Holocaust Revisionism - With Elon Musk's Endorsement

Ryan Mac /
@rmac18: My Grok AI-curated “stories for you” featured a topic called “Musk Endorses Holocaust Revisionism” with a photo of Musk in a Nazi uniform. So I clicked in to see what it was about and the first post was from Musk hyping up how good Grok AI is. [image]

Liz Cheney /
@liz_cheney: Actually, this is pro-Nazi propaganda, including, “Churchill was the chief villain of WW2” and Hitler “didn't want to fight.” No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage.

Renee DiResta /
@renee.diresta@threads.net: The guest just before this one also had old social media hot takes on Hitler. Per NBC: ""If I, a Jew, a member of the Tribe, Hebrew Schooled, can read Mein Kampf & think ‘holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points.’ Then NO ONE is safe from hating you once they find out who is behind the White genocide happening all over the world," he wrote in another post." …

Corey Pein /
@coreypein.bsky.social: Is someone maintaining a public archive of Musk's deleted posts? The stuff he leaves up is bad enough, but the stuff he deletes is like evidence for a war crimes tribunal. [embedded post]

Morten Øverbye /
@morten: Elon Musk deleted his tweet saying a podcast with Tucker Carlson and Darryl Cooper offering excusatory narrative for nazis while calling Winston Churchill “the chief villain of WW2” was “Very interesting. Worth watching”. [image]

Carl Quintanilla /
@carlquintanilla: Deleted after @mcuban wrote: “Delete your account.”

Joel Pollak /
@joelpollak: In which @TuckerCarlson's guest seems to imply Nazi death camps were a humane solution to a problem of millions of civilians voluntarily seeking refuge from a war Hitler started, and compares the Nazis' policies to what Israel is doing in Gaza in response to a war Hamas started.

Steven Kreiss /
@chosennj@threads.net: Tucker Carlson interviews a holocaust denying historian in which Churchill is the bad guy and Hiltler is the good guy. And of course Elon plugs the interview on X.

Matt Bernius /
OutsideTheBeltway: Tucker Carlson Promotes Hitler Apologist @thetnholler@threads.net: Here's why Mark Cuban just told Elon to “delete his account” https://www.newsweek.com/...

Mark Cuban /
@mcuban: Delete your account

Ron Filipkowski /
@ronaldfilipkowski@threads.net: All these “conservatives” expressing shock and dismay that Tucker Carlson is a Nazi apologist are pretty pathetic. Maybe try some critical thinking skills when they start dog whistling so your ears don't get blown out by the bullhorn. You knew who he was all along. @legalminimum.bsky.social: Thread. Imagine caping for fucking Hitler in 2024. — Where's those “Greatest Generation” assholes when we need them? [embedded post]

Jonathan M. Katz /
@katzonearth.bsky.social: Cooper — the guy who called the Holocaust “humane” — is one of the richest Substackers around. He has tens of thousands of paid subscribers paying $50 to $60 a year, meaning he's at least taking in $500,000. — Substack pockets 10% of that haul. [embedded post]

Lum /
@brokentoys.social: Tucker Carlson (and Elon Musk by proxy) are platforming the views of Darryl Cooper, a “historian” trying to “understand WW2”. — Unsurprisingly, he's lying. (thread) [image]

Dan O'Sullivan /
@osullyville.bsky.social: I have a serious question, in light of the fact that I've been reading about Holocaust planning this week: what's the bottom on all this? If US conservatism is in a race to the bottom a lot like that of the Nazis leading up to the Holocaust, what's their version of that? [embedded post]

Ahmad Austin Jr /
Mediaite: Tucker Carlson's Favorite Historian Has Repeatedly Suggested Hitler Wasn't So Bad

New York Times:

The Black List, which has hosted thousands of unproduced screenplays and became an indispensable tool for studios and producers, now accepts fiction books— Acclaimed films like “Juno,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and “The King's Speech” were produced after appearing on the Black List.

Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Publishers Weekly, Deadline, @xanalter, @theblcklst,

Discussion:

Samantha Masunaga /
Los Angeles Times: The Black List, a platform for unproduced screenplays, expands into fiction books

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: The Black List Expands Into Fiction and Unpublished Novels

John Maher /
Publishers Weekly: Two Decades After Shaking Up Hollywood, the Black List Sets Its Sights on Fiction

Dominic Patten /
Deadline: Pure Fiction: The Black List Offers New Novelists A New Avenue To Publication, TV & Film Adaptations

Alexandra Alter /
@xanalter: Will be very interested to see what kind of novels/authors get discovered through The Black List. I spoke to Franklin Leonard about his expansion into fiction. https://www.nytimes.com/... @theblcklst: Fiction writers can now create a FREE Writer Profile to spotlight their unpublished, self-published, and published manuscripts to the Black List's membership of publishing, theater, film, and television professionals. https://blcklst.com/fiction [image]

@theblcklst:
Fiction writers can now also purchase high-quality feedback from our experienced publishing industry readers and submit their manuscripts to our open fiction programs. https://blcklst.com/fiction

Columbia Journalism Review:

How Business of Fashion, founded by a fashion outsider, became an industry staple with over 100K paying subscribers and an international staff of about 100— How The Business of Fashion became an unlikely insider's guide. — In January 2022, Glossier—a beauty blog turned beauty company …

Discussion:
@sophiefkemp and

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Sophie Frances Kemp /
@sophiefkemp: 1 of the many really incredible parts of this piece. really recommend reading it, especially as we “gear up for fashion month” lol [image]

TechCrunch:

YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity— YouTube is expanding its existing set of parental controls with a new feature that would allow a parent to link their account to their teen's account …

Discussion:
The Verge and 9to5Google

Discussion:

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: YouTube now lets parents keep tabs on their teen's channel

Press Gazette:

Note: BBC tells staff it plans to cut up to 115 editorial and production jobs in its Nations and Regions units, including 40 to 45 jobs at BBC Local in England— NUJ says proposed cuts will “further hollow out local news provision”. — The BBC is planning to cut up to 115 editorial and production jobs in the Nations and Regions.

Discussion:
National Union of Journalists …

Variety:

AMC Networks and Charter reach an early renewal for their multiyear carriage deal; Spectrum TV Select customers will get free access to AMC+'s ad-supported tier— AMC Networks and Spectrum parent Charter Communications have reached an early renewal for their multiyear carriage deal.

Discussion:
The Wrap, Next TV, @tvgrimreaper, Charter Communications, Media Play News, Deadline, Streaming Better and The Hollywood Reporter

Discussion:

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: AMC Networks, Charter Renew Multi-Year Distribution Deal

Jon Lafayette /
Next TV: Spectrum TV Customers Get AMC Plus DTC Service as Part of New Deal Between Charter and AMC Networks @tvgrimreaper: Similar to the Charter/ Disney deal. Since that deal, few Charter subs have activated their Disney+ subscriptions. In the quarter following that deal, Charter lost 180,000 residential cable subscribers. Charter Communications: AMC Networks and Charter Communications Announce Early Multi-Year Renewal Agreement for Distribution of AMC Networks' Linear Networks and Direct-To-Consumer Streaming Service

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: AMC Networks, Charter Ink New Carriage Agreement That Includes AMC+ Streaming

John Finn /
Streaming Better: Spectrum TV Select Customers To Get AMC+ (With Ads) At No Additional Cost

Press Gazette:

The Guardian's award-winning Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov departs abruptly; Chulov was reportedly the subject of an internal investigation— Martin Chulov denies allegations against him. — The Guardian has declined to comment on the departure of its long-serving Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov.

Discussion:
Talking Biz News and London Evening Standard

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Digiday:

How Newsweek, The Hill, and Wirecutter are using Reddit Pro, AMAs, and other Reddit tools to build relationships with Reddit moderators and expand on the site— While it hasn't formally launched a publisher program, over the last 18 months Reddit has been steadily rolling out products …

Discussion:
Reddit Upvoted, Will Federman on LinkedIn and Simon Owens's Media Newsletter

Discussion:

Will Federman /