—PBS president Paula Kerger on the Senate's upcoming vote to eliminate $1.1 billion in federal funding allotted for public media over the next two years (The Washington Post / Scott Nover)

“Extreme heat is a weather and public health emergency, but it doesn’t receive the round-the-clock coverage that hurricanes, wildfires, or floods receive. Those disasters create spectacle: visible wreckage, people fleeing their homes. But heat turns us inward, into private spaces in search of cool.”

“On Tuesday the company launched its first ad-supported subscription plan for car listening called SiriusXM Play. It’s a cheaper option than its long-standing offering and will cost less than $7 each month for in-car and streaming.”

Researchers say the countries’ recent social media posts “represented a greater intensity of information warfare, by beginning before the strikes, employing artificial intelligence and spreading widely so quickly.”

“It’s the first time Fox News has licensed a podcast. Fox News has created a ‘new media’ division that will house all of its opinion and non-news podcasts, as it invests more in that type of audio programming.”

—Christine McLaren, head of journalism initiatives at PopShift, who is leading the creation of a 2025 "IP List" that will highlight 20 to 30 of the best works of journalism available for adaptation. (Poynter / Sophie Endrud)

The Foreign Press Association: “This is the second settler attack on foreign journalists in Sinjil this month. On July 4, a Deutsche Welle team was chased by settlers while filming. A window of DW’s car was smashed with stones, and its bodywork dented. In each of these incidents, settlers struck in broad daylight. Yet so far, we are unaware of any arrests being made.”

Congress is expected to vote on the rescission request by the end of the week; “if approved, it would end federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes money to NPR, PBS and local stations. That deadline has led to a rush of last-minute appeals from dozens of public radio and TV executives across the country, from Washington, D.C., to Anchorage.”

“Lee Enterprises, one of the last remaining independent local newspaper companies, has added a $4.99 per month ‘temporary’ surcharge to its newspaper subscriptions, citing inflation and global tariffs.”

“On one hand, tech platforms would be on solid ground if they resisted a plainly unconstitutional request to change the output of their chatbot’s speech. But most of them have made the calculation that it is better to quietly appease Republican elected officials than to loudly oppose them. And that’s how a request that is plainly illegal winds up being effective anyway.”

“BBC senior executives have set red lines around any move to a subscription or ad-based service as used by their streaming competitors.”