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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Financial Times CEO John Ridding plans to step down on July 1 after 19 years, and will take an honorary FT chair title; the FT will now find a replacement  —  Financial Times CEO John Ridding is stepping down in June after leading the newspaper group for almost 20 years.
Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
Gannett unionized employees and management have reached tentative contract deals at six newspapers in New Jersey and New York after threatened walkouts  —  Walkouts were averted at six Gannett titles in New Jersey and New York when employees agreed on “ life-changing” increases in pay and job protections.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV reports FY 2024 revenue down 3% YoY to $5.34B, Studios revenue down 6% YoY to $2.63B, digital ad revenue up 15% YoY, and its efficiency program saved $77.5M  —  The U.K.'s ITV revealed strong profit growth in its full-year results for 2024, despite facing challenges from the U.S. actors …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
WSJ journalists laid off amid consolidation of tech and media teams include Alexa Corse, Tom Dotan, Asa Fitch, Ben Fritz, Miles Kruppa, and Aaron Tilley  —  Here are The Wall Street Journal journalists whose jobs were eliminated on Tuesday:  —  Reporters:
Variety:
Variety.com names Zack Sharf as managing editor; Sharf joined Variety in January 2022 as digital news director after seven years at IndieWire  —  He previously served as digital news director since 2022. … “In the last three years, Zack has helped reinvent Variety's award-winning digital coverage …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
All Elite Wrestling and Amazon Prime Video announce a new multi-year agreement to offer AEW's pay-per-view events in the US, Canada, and the UK on Prime Video  —  The new pay-per-view streaming partnership kicks off this weekend with AEW Revolution, which costs $49.99.
Gordon Smith / Journalism.co.uk:
How the Financial Times is using online polls to engage readers and grow subscriptions; polls in FT newsletters regularly record engagement rates above 75%  —  The newspaper has a loyal, well-informed readership keen to share their opinions.  Polls in its newsletters record engagement over 75 per cent
The Wrap:
Sources: LAT's Hector Becerra faced an HR probe in 2022 over alleged “insulting” behavior, including bullying; LAT says it has “been addressed and resolved”  —  The paper's De Los editor Paloma Esquivel resigned last week, accusing HR of dismissing her complaints against Becerra
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK journalist Graham Johnson estimates he cost News UK £500M through his testimony, books, and legal research since his phone hacking conviction in 2014  —  Former tabloid reporter Graham Johnson believes he helped cost the publisher of The Sun £500m.
Forbes:
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search  —  AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic.  New data shows that's not the case.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: Trump's address to Congress drew 36.6M viewers, a larger number than three of Biden's addresses to Congress but smaller than any in Trump's first term  —  The speech drew a larger audience than Joe Biden's last State of the Union but fell short of any from Trump's first term.
Jack Greenberg / YouTube Official Blog:
YouTube debuts an $8/month Premium Lite tier in the US, offering most videos ad-free and music with ads, and plans to launch in Thailand, Germany, and Australia  —  Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US.  Premium Lite gives viewers a new …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Tom Llamas will succeed Lester Holt as anchor of NBC Nightly News after Holt signs off in early summer
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Sun names Jon Lloyd, previously behind TV content formats like Come Dine With Me, as its director of video to lead a video-first commissioning strategy
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
TNT Sports strikes a deal with DAZN to televise 24 of the 63 FIFA Club World Cup 2025 matches on TNT, TBS, and truTV, including the final
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Source: WaPo Publisher Will Lewis quietly met with Free Beacon EIC Eliana Johnson last month, where the two discussed recruiting conservative journalists
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are relaunching Digg, after acquiring the site from Money Group for an undisclosed sum
 

 
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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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