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5:40 AM ET, February 24, 2025

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Joy Reid's evening news show on MSNBC, The ReidOut, is being canceled as part of an overhaul orchestrated by the network's new president Rebecca Kutler  —  Ms. Reid's 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Alex Wagner, who has hosted MSNBC's weekday 9pm ET show four days a week, is unlikely to return to her slot and is expected to be named a contributor  —  The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: MSNBC chief Rebecca Kutler weighs more on-screen time for Jen Psaki and The Weekend hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele
Pew Research Center:
Among US adults asked to name a news influencer, 3% said Philip DeFranco, 2% Tucker Carlson, 2% Ben Shapiro, 7% gave a media outlet, 42% didn't know or respond  —  About one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, according to our recent study.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The AP sues three Trump officials, alleging they violated the First and Fifth Amendments by banning AP reporters in retaliation for the use of “Gulf of Mexico”  —  The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events.
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Altice USA and MSG Networks reach a distribution agreement bringing back the regional sports network to Optimum TV subscribers, after losing access in January  —  Both sides were at odds for weeks over financial and distribution terms for the regional sports channel.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Ashley Flowers, creator of the weekly Crime Junkie podcast that reaches ~6M listeners, raised $40M, sources say in a deal valuing her company at $250M  —  Flowers hosts the second most popular show in the US.  Now she's brought on investors to take on YouTube, Hollywood and her biggest live tour yet.
The Guardian:
Reporters, like some in Myanmar, who take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption, and war crimes, fear for their future after Trump's USAID cuts  —  Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts
Tom Durante / Mediaite:
NBCUniversal settles a $30M defamation suit by a gynecologist who worked at a Georgia ICE facility; he disputed statements made about him on three MSNBC shows  —  NBCUniversal is settling a $30 million defamation lawsuit brought by an ICE detention facility gynecologist who was falsely branded a …
Enock Nyariki / Poynter:
A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources  —  Notes that cite fact-checkers earn more trust from X users and combat misinformation faster  —  When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Ann Selzer asks to dismiss Trump's lawsuit over her inaccurate November 2024 Iowa poll, arguing the president's “fraud” framing is an attempt to evade the 1A  —  The legal team representing Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against her by President Donald Trump …
 
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Reuters:
Sources: India fines BBC ~£300K for alleged foreign exchange violations over its failure to reduce foreign ownership in a company BBC launched in India in 2023
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Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
The BBC pulls a Gaza documentary from iPlayer to conduct “further due diligence” after criticism for not clearly disclosing narrator was a Hamas leader's son
Deadline:
Sources: Amazon paid $1B+ to gain creative control of the James Bond franchise and plans to expand it into its own universe akin to Marvel or Star Wars
New York Times:
Memo: MLB and ESPN mutually agree to end their national television deal after the 2025 season; ESPN was due to pay MLB around $550M/year in 2026, 2027, and 2028
 

 
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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

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

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
 
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