Mediagazer: A UK judge rules that a sex offender's name can be published following an application by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and a freelance journalist (Hannah Summers/The Guardian)

Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng says she was fired by The Wall Street Journal for taking up the position of chair of the Hong Kong Journalist Association — American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has fired Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks she was elected chair …

Tim Reynolds / Associated Press:

The NBA's Board of Governors approves the league's next media rights deals with Disney, NBC, and Amazon Prime Video; WBD could still match one of the deals — The NBA's Board of Governors approved the league's next media rights deals with Disney, NBC and Amazon Prime Video at its meeting Tuesday …

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Jennifer Maas / Variety:

Sources: WBD will lay off ~1,000 employees across sectors including finance, business affairs, and production; source: fewer than 10 Max staffers are affected — Sources tell Variety that nearly 1,000 employees will be laid off across a few sectors in a new cost-cutting move at WBD …

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Hannah Summers / The Guardian:

A UK judge rules that a sex offender's name can be published following an application by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and a freelance journalist — Bureau of Investigative Journalism applied to name father who wanted to have unsupervised contact with his child

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:

The EU's General Court says TikTok is large enough to fall under the DMA, rejecting ByteDance's challenge; ByteDance can appeal to the European Court of Justice — - TikTok attempt to avoid EU's Digital Markets Act is dismissed — Chinese-owned social media giant also risks ban in the US

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Natalie Korach / The Wrap:

MSNBC insiders accuse Cesar Conde and Rashida Jones of pulling Morning Joe to “coddle” Trump and prevent tensions with a potential Trump administration — Tension skyrocketed at MSNBC this week as network news insiders accused NBCU News Group Chairman Cesar Conde …

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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:

GB News plans to add AI-generated, 30-second sports updates at the end of the main news bulletins on GB News Radio, as the broadcaster expands sports coverage — GB News says it will introduce AI-generated sports news bulletins to its radio station, promising they are “the tip of the iceberg” …

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

Source: PE firm CVC Capital Partners is considering a bid for the Telegraph, ahead of a deadline for the first round of auction of the newspaper group this week — Potential bid by CVC Capital Partners believed to be structured to back newspaper group's management team

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Jack Queen / Reuters:

A jury convicts Ozy Media and its founder Carlos Watson of fraud, in a case accusing them of lying to investors about the startup's finances and sham deals — Ozy Media and founder Carlos Watson were convicted of fraud by a Brooklyn federal jury on Tuesday, in a case accusing them of lying …

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:

Deezer debuts Playlist with AI in beta, where users can create playlists from text prompts, powered by Google's Gemini 1.5, following rivals' similar offerings — Deezer is the latest music streaming app to introduce an AI playlist feature. The company announced on Monday that a select number …

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Caroline Mimbs Nyce / The Atlantic:

Meta launches a small pilot program to let some researchers access Instagram data for up to about six months to study the app's effect on teens and young adults — Meta, infamous for kicking researchers off its platform, flirts with slightly more transparency. — The teens are on Instagram.

Jake Kanter / Deadline:

BBC Head of Product for iPlayer and Video Ankit Kumar leaves; a source says he left abruptly, and the product team is having a “turbulent time” as execs leave — Ankit Kumar joined the BBC in October 2022 from Amazon and played a key role in making iPlayer a destination for more than 17M British viewers every week.

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