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Former Epoch Times executive pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that funded newspaper
Bill Guan, the newspaper’s ex-finance chief, admitted he ran a team out of Vietnam called “Make Money Online” to carry out the scam.
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Erik Uebelacker | Courthouse News Service
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7/10/26
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The Associated Press, a global independent news organization dedicated to factual reporting, joins the SPUR Coalition to help shape the rules and standards that determine how publisher content is used in AI applications.
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Staff | SPUR
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7/10/26
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As backlogs grow, staffing shrinks and requests languish for years, journalists say records often arrive too late to hold anyone accountable.
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Justin Doud | for Poynter
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7/10/26
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A shocking amount of the content that users encounter on popular social media websites is likely AI generated, according to data from a company that detects AI writing.
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Jason Koebler | 404 Media
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7/10/26
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Netflix is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals.
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Jessica Toonkel and Ben Fritz | The Wall Street Journal
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7/10/26
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Meta's move to allow users to create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts is drawing criticism from several camps, including privacy advocates and those who represent celebrities.
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Ina Fried | Axios
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7/10/26
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By Maritsa Patrinos
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7/10/26
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America turns 250. The major motion picture “Network” turns 50. In this month’s “Democracy Desk,” E&P Columnist Stuart N. Brotman connects the dots between the two anniversaries and explains what the First Amendment actually protects — and what it was never designed to do.
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Stuart N. Brotman | for E&P Magazine
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7/10/26
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The board of directors of WERU Community Radio has announced that Kristen Spalding of Orland, Maine, will become the next general manager of the station, taking the helm in late August.
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Staff | Inside Radio
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7/9/26
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Lawyers for several states are finalizing an antitrust lawsuit challenging Paramount’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, including CNN, according to people involved in the legal process.
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Brian Stelter | CNN
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7/9/26
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When Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison unveiled his company’s $81 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, he touted a new golden era for Hollywood — one built on scale, technology and a promise to release at least 30 theatrical movies a year. His plan has little margin for error.
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Joe Flint | The Wall Street Journal
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7/9/26
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A federal judge approved the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) $1.5 million settlement with Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying the agreement did not meet the “high threshold” for the court to strike it down despite “significant misgivings.”
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Julia Shapero | The Hill
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7/9/26
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The Local is a pilot newsletter to connect readers to their communities through journalism, co-hosted by Minnesotans Shadi Bushra and Jay Gabler.
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Marc Lacey and Jodi Rudoren | The New York Times
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7/9/26
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OpenAI has released new conversational models, called GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better. These are full-duplex models, meaning they can speak and listen at the same time, allowing users to interrupt naturally and enabling features like live translation.
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Ivan Mehta | TechCrunch
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7/9/26
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Inyoung Kang is taking a new role in London, and Emily McGarvey has joined The Times.
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Melissa Hoppert, Julie Bloom and Shashank Bengali | The New York Times
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7/9/26
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Amanda Courtney and Hanna Velcofsky have joined The New York Times as newsroom operations managers.
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Juanita Powell-Brunson, Rorna Richards and Ben Rubin | The New York Times
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7/9/26
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Previously non-unionized workers at Aboriginal Peoples Television Network have filed to join the Canadian Media Guild.
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Staff | The NewsGuild-CWA
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7/9/26
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LAist, a nonprofit newsroom that’s built on a membership model used by other public radio stations nationwide, ran two experiments over the past six months that illustrate how media leaders need to think about audience relationships in fundamentally different ways.
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Andy Cheatwood | Nieman Lab
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7/9/26
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Morgan Greenwald, Shira Tarlo, Sarah Beringer, Brittney Forbes and Christina Veta have new roles.
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Press Release | The New York Times
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7/9/26
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Unable to enter the U.S., Iranian journalists reflect on disappointment in being forced to miss the world’s biggest sporting event.
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Megan Cattel and Kourosh Ziabari | Nieman Reports
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7/9/26
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