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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the White House was holding “lies accountable” by barring the AP from events after AP kept its name for the Gulf of Mexico — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the decision to block the Associated Press from access …
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Julie Pace / The Associated Press:
The AP says it was blocked from a White House event after the WH threatened to bar the organization if it did not adopt Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief steps down as CEO, replaced by COO Robert Dippell; the company is on pace to generate $70M+ in revenue in 2025 — The 10-year-old company, now wholly owned by Axel Springer, has transformed its newsletter business into a multimedia portfolio
Ben Kochman / New York Post:
WWE CEO Vince McMahon's lawyer says US federal prosecutors dropped a criminal probe into whether McMahon tried to cover up sexual misconduct allegations — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have dropped a criminal probe that focused on whether former World Wrestling Entertainment boss Vince McMahon tried …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases an Apple TV app for Android phones and tablets, limited to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, and MLB Friday Night Baseball; it doesn't support casting — The Apple TV app is finally making its way to Android users. The app is now available in the Google Play Store for Android phones and tablets.
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John Ourand / Puck:
Sources: ESPN and the NFL are in renewed negotiations and have discussed a deal that would have ESPN take control of NFL Network and NFL RedZone — Once again, ESPN and the NFL are in renewed negotiations for the former to take on the latter's media assets. What's changed since the last time these dance partners played footsie?
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches Generate Video in public beta via its re-designed Firefly web app, alongside new image generation, translation, and AI credit subscription tiers — Generate Video is now in public beta, allowing anyone to generate five-second video clips at 1080p.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
British spy agency MI5 apologizes to the BBC for trying to prevent a BBC journalist from reporting on a neo-Nazi agent's behavior — The unprecedented situation arose after MI5 was forced to say sorry to three courts for lying about a neo-Nazi agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC revealed today.
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Mark Yarm / Long Lead Presents:
Q&A with Ashlee Vance about launching the media company Core Memory, why mainstream media's tech coverage feels like activism, AI's threat to journalism, more — After 14 years as a tech writer and video host at Bloomberg Businessweek, Ashlee Vance feels liberated.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sources: more than 20 Observer journalists have taken redundancy, capped at £120,000 per person, and 46 staffers are transferring over to Tortoise Media — More than 20 Observer journalists are believed to have taken redundancy rather than transfer over to Tortoise Media.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Sean “Diddy” Combs sues NBCUniversal and Peacock for $100M over his depiction in the Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy documentary that launched on Peacock in January — Set to go on trial for sex trafficking and more in May, the much accused and already incarcerated Sean “Diddy” …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Prime Video, which already has NFL Thursday Night Football, plans to add the NBA in the fall and NASCAR in 2025, showing premier live sports year-round — The tech giant will add NBA and NASCAR rights this year, setting up to have premier live sports year-round, and it intends to capitalize on it.
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says Fox and Tubi brought in $800M+ in advertising sales for the presentation of Super Bowl LIX — In addition to the record 127.7 million viewers for the game, Kendrick Lamar's performance was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history.
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