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12:30 PM ET, July 10, 2025

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in June 2023 after she ran NBCUniversal's ad business — X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that some advertisers returning and xAI acquiring X, which effectively demoted her, made it a good time to depart

New York Times:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed with X employees her plans to leave the company earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic replies

Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, Payments Dive, The Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, EV, Jalopnik, Wired, Axios, Werd I/O, NPR, Fortune, The Verge, Poynter, TechIssuesToday.com, TechSpot, Silicon Republic, TESLARATI, The Daily Upside, TheDesk.net, Bloomberg, One America News Network, Social Media Today, CBC News, ABC, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Futurism, @rmac.bsky.social, NextDraft, @joshsternberg.com, Grabien, Decrypt, theJasmineBRAND, Newsweek, SFist, Entrepreneur, WinBuzzer, Digital CxO, PC Gamer, Mother Jones, @clarajeffery.bsky.social, Fast Company, Digit, Cryptopolitan, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, Irish Independent, The Week, @mariopro.bsky.social, Washington Examiner, Jeremy Goldman on LinkedIn, Kotaku, Mediaite, implicator.ai, TechCrunch, ZeroHedge News, @rileytestut@mastodon.social, @ryanlcooper.com, @igb@mastodon.hccp.org, Inside Bitcoins, Reuters, CNBC, @thedextriarchy.bsky.social, Daily Sabah, @mattnavarra.com, The Daily Wire, Deadline, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, HuffPost, CNN, NBC News and Zeteo, more at Techmeme »

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

World of Good Brands, formerly Leaf Group, shuts down after owner Graham Holdings sold off its last three titles; Graham Holdings acquired it in 2021 for $323M — The closure represents the end of the digital media company once known as Demand Media. — Digital media company World …

Discussion: The Rebooting, @ricmac@mastodon.social, @markstenberg3, Simon Owens's Media Newsletter, Business Wire and @simonowens.bsky.social

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

Google adds image-to-video generation to Veo 3 in the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers, and says users have created 40M+ videos since Veo 3's May launch — Google said on Thursday it's adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app.

Discussion: The Verge, Thurrott, TechRadar, Engadget, Axios, Communicate Online, BGR, Ars Technica, Android Police, 9to5Google, The Keyword, The Decoder, nextpit, Digit, Tech Advisor, The Irish Times, ZDNET, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and TechIssuesToday.com, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:NEW!

Photo agencies plan to boycott the rest of the Oasis reunion tour after the band's management said rights to concert images will last for only one year — Exclusive: Move comes after band's management says rights to concert images will only last for one year

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

The UK's Reach plans to merge its national and regional sports journalism teams into one central hub, resulting in around 50 layoffs — Reach has proposed major changes to how its sports journalists work, merging many of its national and regional teams in England into a central hub with around 50 redundancies anticipated.

Discussion: HoldtheFrontPage and National Union of Journalists …

Emily Sundberg / Feed Me:

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie is launching a biweekly column on Lachlan Cartwright's Breaker, a publication hosted on Substack rival beehiiv — Good day to be the CEO of beehiiv. — ∙ Paid — Good morning everyone. Your song of the summer might be Sabrina Carpenter's Manchild or Morgan Wallen's What I Want.

Discussion: @emily_sundberg, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, @jaycodon and @jakesherman

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:

Google launches AI ad tools in India; the country repealing its so-called “Google Tax” has made it more attractive to global tech companies selling online ads — Google has launched a suite of its AI-powered advertising tools in India, which debuted in the U.S. in May …

Discussion: Fast Company, City A.M., MediaNews4U, The Indian Express, NDTV Profit and nextbigwhat, more at Techmeme »

Financial Times:

Investor letter: US newsroom-cum-hedge fund Hunterbrook Global is valued at $100M after new funding, which a source says will go toward expanding its newsroom — Novel investment firm that trades off its reporters' scoops raises fresh capital and plans move into litigation

Amy Hollyfield / Dallas Morning News:

Dallas Morning News parent company DallasNews Corporation signs a merger agreement to be acquired by Hearst, in a deal that values it at $74.9M — DallasNews Corporation, the public parent company of The Dallas Morning News and Medium Giant, has signed a definitive merger agreement …

Discussion: WFAA-TV, San Francisco Chronicle, @4nsmiley.bsky.social, @wallstreetsimplified.com, @charlierybak.bsky.social, @vtuss.bsky.social, Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Business Journal, DallasNews Corporation and @jbenton

Danielle Broadway / Reuters:

SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements — Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with video game studios on Wednesday with a focus …

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:

WPP names Microsoft Global Enterprise COO Cindy Rose as CEO, effective September 1, succeeding Mark Read; Rose has been on WPP's board since 2019 — Rose, 59, will take on the role leading the advertising group beginning Sept. 1, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

Jessica Davies / Digiday:

Condé Nast and Hearst sign multiyear agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus; the terms are undisclosed — Condé Nast and Hearst have signed multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in its AI shopping assistant Rufus.

Discussion: The Decoder, Editor and Publisher and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

McKenzie Sadeghi / NewsGuard's Reality Check:

NewsGuard is retiring “misinformation” and “disinformation” as primary labels, saying the words have become meaningless and politicized — Welcome to Reality Check, a newsletter that helps you keep track of the false claims and online conspiracy theories that shape our world — and who's behind them.

Discussion: @kennysmith.bsky.social and @ascottreid.bsky.social

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Camille Bromley / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, a book on PE firms' impact on media and other industries, on unionization efforts, nonprofit outlets, and more

Discussion: @chameauleon.bsky.social, @stevemullis.net and @genelewisperry.bsky.social

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Disney and ITV agree to stream hit shows like The Bear and Love Island on each other's platforms for the first time, from July 16; both will be able to sell ads

Discussion: Broadband TV News, The Guardian, Engadget, Mirror, WORLD SCREEN, The Hollywood Reporter, TVBEurope, Variety, Reuters, TVNewsCheck, MarketWatch and Yahoo Finance, more at Techmeme »

Will Potter / Rolling Stone:
A book excerpt details how the US animal agriculture industry helped create “ag-gag” laws criminalizing undercover journalism exposing factory farm abuses

Rebecca Keegan / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at celebrity impersonation scams and the steps taken by Hollywood to combat them, including a likeness management tool CAA is developing with YouTube

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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
In an email to WaPo staff, Will Lewis asks those who do not feel aligned with the paper's “significant reinvention” to consider taking buyouts

Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Wrap

Bloomberg:
France's antitrust regulator says it notified Meta that it potentially violated competition rules, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in online ads

Discussion: Gambling Industry News, Cryptopolitan, Verdict, Reuters, Autorité de la concurrence and Indicator

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube says it will update its monetization guidelines on July 15, defining “inauthentic” content as “mass-produced and repetitious”, amid a flood of AI slop

Matt Smith / Press Gazette:
An interview with Judd Legum about his Substack Popular Information, which has three reporting staff and 20K+ paying subs, with an estimated $1M+ annual revenue

Discussion: @simonowens and The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide:
xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more

Joe Tidy / BBC:
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc

Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period, in line with its other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer

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