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Jeff Bezos / @jeffbezos:
Jeff Bezos says the WaPo's opinion pages going forward will largely focus on personal liberties and free markets, and opinion editor David Shipley is leaving — I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We'll cover other topics too
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Sources: WaPo publisher Will Lewis told Jeff Bezos that changes to the Opinion section would have consequences for the health of the paper — When Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos stunned the newsroom on Wednesday by announcing that he was remaking the ideology of the “Opinions” …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis says opinion section changes are “not about siding with any political party” but about “being crystal clear about what we stand for”
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
The White House kicked out Reuters and a HuffPost reporter from Trump's Wednesday press pool; with AP still blocked, just one wire service remained in the pool — Breaking with decades of precedent, the Trump White House is insisting on the ability to choose which reporters cover the president.
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Reuters News Agency:
Editors of Reuters, AP, and Bloomberg News, all permanent members of the White House pool, say limiting wire access to the president harms people and markets — By: Reuters News Agency — Reuters, The Associated Press and Bloomberg News today issued the following statement:
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
On day one of choosing its own “press pool,” the White House replaced HuffPost with Axios; two staunchly pro-Trump outlets, Newsmax and The Blaze, were added
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
WHCA President Eugene Daniels said the White House move to take over the press pool “tears at the independence of a free press”; longtime reporters share alarm
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says the White House, not the WHCA, will now decide which outlets will be in the pool covering presidential events
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Max Tani / Semafor:
YouTube's VP for News Partnerships Tim Katz says the platform has continued to boom as a news platform, particularly for news commentators like MeidasTouch — The News — YouTube is touting a mind-boggling statistic to demonstrate its increasing dominance in podcasting.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 — Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. … According to the Google-owned video giant, YouTube now has more than 1 billion monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide.
The Guardian:
Sources: UK lawmakers plan key concessions for artists about plans to make it easier for AI companies to use copyrighted work, after lobbying by top artists — Exclusive: partial climbdown over use of work protected by copyright considered after intense lobbying by top artists
The Guardian:
Gary Lineker joins 500 media professionals in signing a letter telling the BBC to “stop censorship on Palestine”, after iPlayer pulled a Gaza documentary — Exclusive: Film and TV stars among those writing to corporation after it pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD says Max will offer sports for free to US standard and premium subscribers; B/R Sports and CNN Max will no longer be available on Max's basic with ads tier — Warner Bros. Discovery has halted plans to launch a $10 paywall for its B/R Sports tier, while also pulling sports and news content from the Max ad tier from March 30.
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
DoubleVerify acquires media measurement startup Rockerbox in an all-cash deal valued at $85M; LUMA says M&A deal volume in ad tech grew 73% in 2024 — - The startup was “relatively bootstrapped,” Rockerbox CEO Ron Jacobson says. … - Rockerbox has about 50 employees who will join DoubleVerify's 1,000-person team.
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Alex Ritman / Variety:
ITV Studios signs a deal with Vice Studios to become its exclusive global distribution partner, adding ~2,000 hours of Vice content to its 90,000-hour catalogue — ITV Studios has signed a deal with Vice Studios to become its exclusive global distribution partner.
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TVNewsCheck, The Hollywood Reporter, C21Media, WORLD SCREEN and Deadline
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta's Oversight Board says it will weigh in on Meta's hate speech policies, changed before Trump's inauguration, in a test of the enforceability of its powers — It's unclear how much the group will be able to influence the rules. — Less than two weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
WBD closes three game studios and cancels a highly anticipated Wonder Woman title in a bid to boost the profitability of its interactive entertainment business — - Company halts work on highly anticipated Wonder Woman title — Closures follow several disappointing releases last year
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