Scripps has adopted an “anchorless news broadcasting” model in about a dozen markets →

“The crisis has triggered, on the one hand, the circulation of false messages on Moroccan social media encouraging people to head to the border after the erroneous idea spread that a Supreme Court ruling facilitated both access to the asylum process and entry into mainland Europe.

On the other hand, there has also been a surge in content on Spanish platforms that has used the situation to promote xenophobic and racist narratives. The Spanish Observatory of Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE) detected 9,590 discriminatory messages on July 30 and 31, a spike that raised the monthly total to 57,406 pieces of content, compared to 40,800 recorded in June.” —HT

“The communities they are ‘covering’ either have their own local newspapers/news sites or get coverage from Patch and/or Tribune Publishing newspapers. They are not filling any gaps.” —HT

“The reporters Arsenault interviewed, all paid with LJI funding, told him they were not influenced by the source of their paycheques, and that they believed they maintained their roles as watchdogs and wrote balanced stories. Yet two-thirds of the interviewees shared some concern that the source of the funding could affect how audiences perceived their role, or create the appearance of a conflict of interest. The reporters said they considered advertiser pressure a more tangible threat to their autonomy than government funding.”  —HT

“Those involved include Rob Maness, a retired Air Force colonel, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel, people familiar with the matter said…Both served for decades in uniform and, since retiring, have turned from the military to conservative commentary. Maness has more than 135,000 followers on X, while Schlichter has nearly 620,000.” —HT

“Likening NewsBreak to ‘a switchboard operator,’ the three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit found it was Emmerich Newspapers, not NewsBreak, that transmitted the embedded content to users, and therefore the news aggregator did not violate Emmerich’s copyright.” —HT

MapQuest said last week that it “would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. As a result, MapQuest’s mobile app downloads soared, sending the iOS app to the No. 4 position on the U.S. App Store’s Top Charts for apps…and it became the No. 1 Navigation app in the United States.” —HT

“The U.S. Department of the Treasury has not granted credentials to individual reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News to cover the event, which will draw finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s biggest economies.” —LO

“The Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies.” —LO

“In the U.S., consulting firm Madison and Wall estimates that AI-powered ad revenue will grow 63% this year to reach $57 billion by the end of the year.” —LO

“I think we’re just in a different world here.” —LO