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2:30 PM ET, March 14, 2025

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Costas Pitas / Reuters:
Filing: Newsmax paid $40M in 2024 to settle the Smartmatic defamation lawsuit over false claims that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 US election  —  Newsmax Media has agreed to pay $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Guardian, City AM, GB News, and Newsquest appear to have introduced “consent or pay” models in recent months, joining Mail Online, Mirror, and more  —  The Guardian has become the latest UK news publisher to begin requiring readers to pay for website access if they do not agree to being tracked by third-party cookies.
Washington Post:
John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who wrote more than 40 books including A Season on the Brink, about basketball coach Bob Knight, has died at 69  —  He had a long affiliation with The Washington Post and wrote books including “A Season on the Brink,” about Indiana University men's basketball coach Bob Knight.
Agence France-Presse:
Kari Lake, who joined the USAGM in February, says she is canceling the agency's contracts with news services including AP, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse  —  A senior advisor to President Donald Trump said Thursday she was moving to cancel long-established contracts between three international …
Reuters:
Dazn announces a multi-year deal to stream LIV Golf in Japan, Canada, and several European countries, alongside the LIV Golf+ service  —  LIV Golf's broadcast reach will extend to Japan, Canada and much of Europe thanks to a multiyear partnership with London-based sports entertainment platform DAZN …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
China announces new rules requiring companies to label AI-generated material, either explicitly or via metadata, starting September 1  —  China joined the EU and US in rolling out new regulation to control disinformation by requiring labeling of synthetic content online.
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
Reuters journalist Raphael Satter sues the Indian government for revoking his Overseas Citizen status, after he wrote about hack-for-hire company Appin in 2023  —  Raphael Satter had his OCI card taken away after publishing a story critical of an Indian businessman
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Meghan Markle and Lemonada Media announce Confessions of a Female Founder, a weekly podcast featuring conversations with women entrepreneurs, premiering April 8  —  Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is back with her first new podcast in more than two years: “Confessions of a Female Founder,” …
 
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Food52 reduces its workforce from 140 to ~90 employees, primarily affecting staff in its marketplace business, as part of a restructuring at the media outlet
Katie Campione / Deadline:
WGA begins talks with CBS News for a new union contract, focusing on AI and using the recently ratified contract at ABC News as a foundation for bargaining
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development
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Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
A look at three examples of how ProPublica has used AI to analyze data, including how journalists wrote AI prompts, with staff reviewing and confirming results
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast and the International Olympic Committee sign a $3B deal to keep NBC and Peacock as the TV and streaming homes for the Olympics through 2036
Jay Peters / The Verge:
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
 

 
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Kinling Lo / Rest of World:
A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model

Steven Levy / Wired:
Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month
 
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