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• The July 17, 2026, edition of the JournalismPakistan Global Media Brief reports on a surge of global press freedom threats, including the arrest of journalists in Hong Kong and Nigeria. • Key legal developments include a U.S. tightening of visa rules for foreign journalists, a Singaporean court ordering Bloomberg to pay damages to ministers, and a judge rejecting a bid to stop the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. • In Pakistan, the DRF USA warned of expanding cyber surveillance, while nine journalist threat cases were recorded in June and Rehan Tariq's bail was rejected in a PECA case.

Move would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to potentially profit from seeing president’s posts firstDonald Trump’s media company is planning to charge for special high-speed access to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own, affecting national security and financial markets.The move announced Thursday would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to get news from top Truth Social contributors in milliseconds so they could profit off subsequent moves in stocks, bonds and interest rates. Continue reading...

• Donald Trump’s media company plans to introduce a paid service providing high-speed access to posts on the Truth Social platform. • The premium access may include real-time updates from Trump himself, whose posts often influence financial markets and national security. • This move aims to monetize the time-sensitive nature of the former president's communications for traders and analysts.

• DeepSeek, the Chinese AI firm known for disrupting the global AI market, has entered preliminary talks with investors for a new funding round. • The company aims to secure capital to expand its computing infrastructure, construct new data centers, and acquire AI chips to support more powerful models. • This fundraising effort follows the completion of DeepSeek's first external financing and serves as a strategic step as the company begins preparations for an IPO.

• Editors from major media outlets, including Forbes, Digiday, and Business Insider, convened at the Cannes Lions festival to debate the impact of artificial intelligence on journalism. • The roundtable focused on the significant loss of web traffic caused by AI-generated summaries and the evolving strategies needed to combat this decline. • The discussion highlights a critical tension in the industry as media giants struggle to maintain audience reach and revenue while AI tools increasingly bypass traditional news sites.

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds face an overnight social media curfew in an extension of the government’s social media ban for under-16s. Under the plan, aimed at reducing online harms, certain apps would be blocked by default from midnight to 6am. But the curfew will not be mandatory and teenagers can opt out, so will it achieve anything? Annie Kelly speaks to social affairs correspondent Jessica Murray – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

Met police detain man in his 20s after post on X was reported to them by parliamentary authorities in MayA man has been arrested on suspicion of publishing a message on social media in which he threatened to shoot Nigel Farage.The Metropolitan police arrested a man in his 20s on Tuesday after the post was reported to them by the parliamentary authorities in May. Continue reading...