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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims — - The World Federation of Advertisers is ‘discontinuing’ the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
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Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters:
News Corp puts its 65% interest in Australian pay TV company Foxtel up for sale, citing third-party interest and a strategic review — Australian pay television company Foxtel, controlled by the Murdoch family and partly by local telecom firm Telstra (TLS.AX), has been put …
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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
News Corp reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $2.58B vs. $2.49B est., net income of $71M, Dow Jones revenue up 4% to $566M, and book publishing revenue up 15% — Media conglomerate News Corp (NWSA.O) beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter revenue on Thursday, helped by digital subscription growth …
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Sheena Vasani / The Verge:
Substack now lets users publish posts and collect subscribers directly from their profile without setting up a publication, on the web or in its app — Anybody with a Substack account can now publish posts on Substack's web and mobile app, the company announced on Thursday …
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@simondowens@threads.net and Substack Reads
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount Global says it will cut 15% of its US workforce, or about 2,000 employees, in the next few weeks, after cutting about 800 positions in February — Paramount Global will cut 15% of its U.S. workforce in the next few weeks — a round of layoffs that will affect about 2,000 employees …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Paramount reports Q2 revenue down 11% YoY to $6.81B vs. $7.21B est., its first ever streaming profit, of $26M, and a $5.98B impairment charge for cable networks — Paramount Global is cutting 15% of its U.S. workforce, or about 2,000 jobs, part of a broader cost-cutting plan as it prepares for a merger with Skydance Media.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Oliver Darcy leaves CNN to launch Status, a newsletter akin to Puck, for $15/month or $150/year; CNN says the Reliable Sources newsletter is on summer hiatus — Oliver Darcy is starting a subscription-based news site dedicated to covering the media industry, joining a crowded field.
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Marianna Spring / BBC:
A look at the people behind Channel3Now, a crime news aggregator whose story wrongly blaming an asylum seeker for the Southport attack played a role in UK riots — What connects a dad living in Lahore in Pakistan, an amateur hockey player from Nova Scotia - and a man named Kevin from Houston, Texas?
Arvind Dilawar / Drop Site News:
A freelance journalist claims the NYT failed to correct a story he co-wrote on antisemitism in Teaneck, NJ, after he found a source gave incorrect information — An elected official alleged an antisemitic break-in. Police say it didn't happen. — As a freelance journalist …
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Emilia Otte / CT Examiner:
Hearst Connecticut Media Group workers plan to form a union; despite support from some politicians, management said it would not voluntarily recognize the group — Hearst Connecticut Media Group announced on Thursday that it would not recognize a union formed by its reporters …
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@bostonglobe, @newsguild, @juliann_ventura, The NewsGuild and The Boston Globe
Thomas Hunter / Press Gazette:
Victoria Newton, editor of The Sun, defends her outlet's early coverage of the BBC's Huw Edwards and criticizes the Met's delay in revealing charges against him — Newton believes it was BBC News coverage that led to The Sun being “vilified” for its reporting.
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Mark Stephens CBE on LinkedIn, @pressgazette and BBC
Bloomberg:
Sources: the UK is considering revisiting parts of the Online Safety Act to give authorities more power to force social media companies to curb harmful content — - Starmer has few existing levers to curb incendiary content — Officials consider revisiting key parts of Online Safety Act
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