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2026-04-17 07:10:52 UTC

Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, investigating salacious rumors amid a flood of funding for opposition dossiers, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/911753/sam-altman-openai-ronan-farrow-new-yorker-feature-trust-liar-ai-industry
http://mediagazer.com/260417/p1#a260417p1

2026-04-15 12:16:50 UTC

The BBC plans to cut around 2,000 jobs, or ~10% of its 21,508-person workforce, as part of radical downsizing ahead of the arrival of new DG Matt Brittin (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/735f7a8f-4bd7-4af0-b0e7-939964394490
http://mediagazer.com/260415/p7#a260415p7

2026-02-17 17:10:39 UTC

By not airing Colbert's interview with Talarico, CBS bowed to FCC pressure preemptively as the agency hasn't formally eliminated talk show equal time exemptions (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stephen-colbert-cbs-blocked-james-talarico-interview-fcc-equal-time-1236665220/
http://mediagazer.com/260217/p13#a260217p13

2026-02-14 12:26:10 UTC

A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
http://mediagazer.com/260214/p3#a260214p3

2026-01-13 09:01:26 UTC

An investigation finds 50+ apparently fake experts who offered commentary to the UK press in recent years, getting featured 1,000+ times in various articles (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-50-experts-and-linked-brands-publishers-should-treat-with-caution/
http://mediagazer.com/260113/p2#a260113p2

2025-12-23 00:20:39 UTC

The CECOT segment from 60 Minutes, pulled by Bari Weiss, was aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/60-minutes-episode-leaked
http://mediagazer.com/251222/p20#a251222p20

2025-12-12 14:16:08 UTC

Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap
http://mediagazer.com/251212/p6#a251212p6

2025-12-02 23:45:44 UTC

Sources: if Netflix wins the auction for WBD, Paramount plans to go directly to WBD shareholders to argue that Netflix's bid would face regulatory issues (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/media/paramount-skydance-has-a-plan-b-if-netflix-wins-auction-for-warner-bros-discovery-sources/
http://mediagazer.com/251202/p20#a251202p20

2025-11-04 02:25:46 UTC

Condé United and The NewsGuild "strongly condemn" Teen Vogue's consolidation, saying it will throttle staff diversity and blunt its progressive political bent (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/conde-nast-teen-vogue-newsguild-1236417079/
http://mediagazer.com/251103/p20#a251103p20

2025-10-03 21:02:38 UTC

Sources at CBS News say newsroom morale is extremely low ahead of Bari Weiss' imminent arrival, and employees worry about her lack of experience as layoffs loom (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cbs-news-bari-weiss-editor-reaction-b2839064.html
http://mediagazer.com/251003/p10#a251003p10

2025-09-21 05:31:11 UTC

CPJ: Israel's attack on a newspaper complex in Yemen on September 10, which killed 31 journalists, was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded (William Christou/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/israeli-attack-on-yemeni-newspaper-complex-kills-media-workers
http://mediagazer.com/250921/p1#a250921p1

2025-08-20 14:25:58 UTC

Sources: publishers are considering moving from flat-fee AI content licensing deals with companies to usage-based deals; Perplexity is developing such a model (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/news-publishers-shift-ai-licensing-focus-usage-based-deals
http://mediagazer.com/250820/p9#a250820p9

2025-08-01 15:46:07 UTC

In the UK, X and Reddit are blocking wide-ranging content, including about parliamentary debates, Ukraine, and Gaza, to comply with the Online Safety Act (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3l0e4vr0ko
http://mediagazer.com/250801/p4#a250801p4

2025-06-25 12:10:49 UTC

Among US adults who have ever encountered paywalled articles, only 1% said they paid for access, 53% looked elsewhere, and 32% gave up on accessing the info (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/24/few-americans-pay-for-news-when-they-encounter-paywalls/
http://mediagazer.com/250625/p6#a250625p6

2025-05-27 06:55:34 UTC

How BookMyShow, primarily a movie ticket seller, has led India's live music market expansion by partnering with companies like AEG and Live Nation (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-25/ed-sheeran-travis-scott-turn-mumbai-into-the-next-hot-music-market
http://mediagazer.com/250527/p1#a250527p1

2025-05-08 19:25:56 UTC

Sources: President Trump is considering installing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim US attorney for the District of Columbia (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-eying-fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-top/story?id=121604820
http://mediagazer.com/250508/p16#a250508p16

2025-05-05 15:33:52 UTC

The White House says "no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made" and it is exploring options for "Making Hollywood Great Again" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/white-house-clarifies-trump-movie-tariff-1236207216/
http://mediagazer.com/250505/p7#a250505p7

2025-05-02 15:10:59 UTC

NPR says President Trump's EO is an affront to the First Amendment rights of NPR and that it will challenge the EO "using all means available" (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g-s1-64016/npr-statement-on-white-house-executive-order
http://mediagazer.com/250502/p9#a250502p9

2025-04-28 11:55:37 UTC

Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/business/dealbook/spotify-100-million-paid-creators-podcast-video.html
http://mediagazer.com/250428/p9#a250428p9

2025-04-26 04:21:01 UTC

Q&A with WHCA President Eugene Daniels on this year's annual dinner, White House press pool changes, the press corps' response to attacks, and more (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/04/eugene-daniels-white-house-correspondents-dinner-1236376236/
http://mediagazer.com/250426/p1#a250426p1

2025-04-15 18:55:44 UTC

Thompson Reuters joins Gannett in erasing references to "diversity" in favor of "belonging" to "ensure ongoing compliance" with Trump's executive order (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/reuters-is-the-latest-media-company-to-drop-diversity-language-in-response-to-trump-executive-order/
http://mediagazer.com/250415/p11#a250415p11

2025-03-29 18:31:14 UTC

After White House criticism, WHCA says comedian Amber Ruffin won't headline this year's annual dinner "to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/white-house-correspondents-dinner-cancels-amber-ruffin-show-1236175544/
http://mediagazer.com/250329/p4#a250329p4

2025-03-25 12:25:42 UTC

3D tech company Infinite Reality buys Napster for $207M; CEO John Acunto says the one-time file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/napster-pioneered-music-sharing-25-years-ago-bought-for-207-million-.html
http://mediagazer.com/250325/p10#a250325p10

2025-03-24 19:20:36 UTC

The Atlantic EIC says he was inadvertently included in a Signal chat group with Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, and others revealing the attack plans on Houthi targets (Jeffrey Goldberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://mediagazer.com/250324/p17#a250324p17

2025-02-28 23:40:53 UTC

Amazon says it has cut "a small number" of jobs at its Wondery podcast unit; Wondery closed its operations in Brazil and Mexico earlier in February (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazons-wondery-podcast-unit-trims-jobs-2025-02-28/
http://mediagazer.com/250228/p13#a250228p13

2025-02-12 21:45:53 UTC

In a letter to the White House, AP Executive Editor Julie Pace called the move to block its journalists from events "a clear violation of the First Amendment" (Anna Betts/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/ap-white-house
http://mediagazer.com/250212/p19#a250212p19

2025-02-12 15:10:54 UTC

WWE CEO Vince McMahon's lawyer says US federal prosecutors dropped a criminal probe into whether McMahon tried to cover up sexual misconduct allegations (Ben Kochman/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-news/criminal-probe-into-wwe-boss-vince-mcmahon-dropped-lawyer/
http://mediagazer.com/250212/p10#a250212p10

2025-02-07 14:20:59 UTC

Memo: ahead of its Skydance merger, Paramount Global pauses some major events in 2025, including MTV EMAs, to "reimagine and optimize" the events slate (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-pause-events-cmt-music-awards-mtv-emas-1236122166/
http://mediagazer.com/250207/p4#a250207p4

2025-02-04 19:05:44 UTC

Elon Musk accused an X user of "a crime" who named federal staff in a post that X then removed--showing what actual government social media censorship looks like (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actual-government-censorship-on-social-media-looks-like/
http://mediagazer.com/250204/p20#a250204p20

2025-01-10 22:10:58 UTC

Zuckerberg says Meta's fact-checking was "something out of 1984" and criticized the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinfo after the 2016 election (Angrej Singh/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-facebook-censorship-biden
http://mediagazer.com/250110/p17#a250110p17

2025-01-10 19:41:00 UTC

Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html
http://mediagazer.com/250110/p14#a250110p14

2025-01-07 19:35:39 UTC

Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being "too politically biased" (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-fact-checking-partners-blindsided/
http://mediagazer.com/250107/p17#a250107p17

2025-01-07 13:16:56 UTC

Meta will lift restrictions on "topics that are part of mainstream discourse", like immigration and gender, and focus on "illegal and high-severity violations" (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/meta-drops-fact-checking-and-loosens-its-content-moderation-rules/
http://mediagazer.com/250107/p7#a250107p7

2024-12-13 00:35:54 UTC

In 2024, police arrested or detained US journalists at least 48 times, more than in 2022 and 2023 combined; nearly half of arrests were by New York City police (U.S. Press Freedom Tracker)
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/journalist-arrests-surge-in-2024/
http://mediagazer.com/241212/p19#a241212p19

2024-12-11 00:05:44 UTC

A California District Court judge orders Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with its plugins (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/24318350/automattic-restore-wp-engine-access-wordpress
http://mediagazer.com/241210/p21#a241210p21

2024-11-26 03:25:43 UTC

Filing: Disney agrees to pay $43.25M to settle a 2019 lawsuit over pay equity for up to 14,000 female Disney employees; the trial was set to begin in May 2025 (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/11/disney-pay-equity-suit-settlement-figure-1236187331/
http://mediagazer.com/241125/p18#a241125p18

2024-11-24 17:45:33 UTC

Israel approves a proposal that government bodies refrain from engaging with Haaretz or placing ads in the paper, after controversial remarks from its publisher (Eliav Breuer/Jerusalem Post)
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-830510
http://mediagazer.com/241124/p4#a241124p4

2024-11-21 02:55:42 UTC

Trump says Republicans must kill the PRESS Act, which would protect journalists' records and sources from the US government; the bill is stalled in the Senate (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/trump-press-act-freedom-reporters.html
http://mediagazer.com/241120/p23#a241120p23

2024-11-16 19:31:05 UTC

Freedom of the Press Foundation launches its own Mastodon server, social.freedom.press, consolidating its accounts, and will still use Threads and Bluesky (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
https://freedom.press/about/announcements/our-new-home-on-the-fediverse/
http://mediagazer.com/241116/p4#a241116p4

2024-11-12 13:25:36 UTC

Le Monde, Le Figaro, Les Echos, and other French news outlets sue X, accusing it of running their content without paying, violating so-called neighboring rights (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/11/12/le-monde-and-several-french-newspapers-sue-x-over-neighboring-rights-payments_6732542_19.html
http://mediagazer.com/241112/p8#a241112p8

2024-11-06 12:10:53 UTC

How Trump and his allies could go after the media in his second term through harassment campaigns and lawsuits, draining the companies of time, money, and trust (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/05/trump-media-playbook-regulatory-threat
http://mediagazer.com/241106/p3#a241106p3

2024-11-01 11:01:36 UTC

BBC World Service secures a 25% increase in its government grant for 2025/26; sources: £27M has been agreed, on top of baseline funding of £104M this year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5495b79-29e7-41f1-80a3-654bb419fc61
http://mediagazer.com/241101/p3#a241101p3

2024-10-31 12:01:39 UTC

Ofcom fines GB News £100K for giving Rishi Sunak a "mostly uncontested platform", but won't enforce payment until judicial review of its decision is complete (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gb-news-fine-ofcom-rishi-sunak/
http://mediagazer.com/241031/p12#a241031p12

2024-10-31 05:30:54 UTC

Jeff Bezos should donate The Washington Post to a public charity that maintains its quality and independence, as he is too financially compromised to own it (Steven Waldman/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/opinion/waldman-bezos-washington-post-donation-charity-goodwill-endorsements-harris-spiked.php
http://mediagazer.com/241031/p1#a241031p1

2024-10-28 18:15:46 UTC

Two more Washington Post opinion writers resign from its editorial board: David Hoffman, who accepted a Pulitzer Prize last week, and Molly Roberts (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/28/2024/more-editorial-board-members-resign-at-washington-post
http://mediagazer.com/241028/p10#a241028p10

2024-10-26 00:30:55 UTC

Sources and memos: the LA Times editorial board had planned a series, The Case Against Trump, to run this week, until Patrick Soon-Shiong quashed the project (Ross A. Lincoln/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-endorsement-canceled/
http://mediagazer.com/241025/p15#a241025p15

2024-10-25 20:26:12 UTC

WaPo editor-at-large Robert Kagan quits after the late move to not endorse in the presidential race; source: subscription cancellations are unusually high (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2024/editor-resign-subscribers-cancel-as-washington-post-non-endorsement-prompts-crisis-at-bezos-paper
http://mediagazer.com/241025/p9#a241025p9

2024-10-24 01:35:49 UTC

Medill's State of Local News report finds a net gain of 81 US digital news sites over the past year, 127 closed newspapers, ~2,000 lost newsroom jobs, and more (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/newspapers-closing-jobs-lost-digital-fa82ebfdefdde058a1cbfaea1a59fb69
http://mediagazer.com/241023/p22#a241023p22

2024-10-09 01:05:38 UTC

Filmmaker Errol Morris, who made Separated, a documentary on Trump's child separation policy, questions why NBC has delayed its release until after the election (Oliver Darcy/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/why-is-nbc-news-burying-a-documentary-on-trump-family-separation-policy-until-after-election/
http://mediagazer.com/241008/p22#a241008p22

2024-09-25 16:05:23 UTC

X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/x-twitter-first-transparency-report-since-elon-musks-takeover-is-finally-here/
http://mediagazer.com/240925/p13#a240925p13

2024-09-21 17:20:47 UTC

X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company's lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/americas/elon-musk-x-brazil.html
http://mediagazer.com/240921/p2#a240921p2

2024-09-17 11:25:33 UTC

Sources: Guardian Media Group is in talks to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media, which would invest £25M in The Observer in the first five years of ownership (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/guardian-media-group-in-talks-to-sell-the-observer-to-tortoise-media-13216602
http://mediagazer.com/240917/p4#a240917p4

2024-09-04 16:35:43 UTC

Note: BBC tells staff it plans to cut up to 115 editorial and production jobs in its Nations and Regions units, including 40 to 45 jobs at BBC Local in England (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-to-cut-115-jobs-in-nations-and-regions-editorial-and-production/
http://mediagazer.com/240904/p11#a240904p11