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6:40 PM ET, February 12, 2025

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Anna Betts / The Guardian:
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”  —  Editor Julie Pace writes Trump's chief of staff about ban on its journalists after AP declines to use ‘Gulf of America’
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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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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 …
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.
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press  —  Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
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.
Discussion: @markyarm
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
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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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
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
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
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
IAC reports Dotdash Meredith's Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $522.1M and plans to ramp up monetization efforts after Dotdash traffic grew 80% in 2024
Discussion: A Media Operator and Reuters
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Eric Mack / Newsmax:
In a letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, FCC Chair Brendan Carr says he is opening a probe into Comcast and NBCUniversal, particularly over “promotion of DEI”
Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
OpenAI partners with Schibsted, a newspaper publisher based in Norway, letting OpenAI integrate content from VG, Aftenposten, and others into OpenAI products
Discussion: Schibsted and OpenAI
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed says it's developing its own social media platform designed to spread “joy” and that uses “AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency”
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”
 
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