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9:45 AM ET, March 20, 2025

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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Axel Springer board member Martin Varsavsky criticizing Politico's Gaza coverage did not sit well with many of its journalists, who he called “woke”  —  An Axel Springer board member attacked POLITICO and its “woke” reporters, igniting internal backlash and spotlighting …
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; one source says Apple has spent $5B+ on content since its 2019 launch  —  Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company's video-streaming service …
Steven J. Horowitz / Variety:
US prosecutors charge former Eminem employee Joseph Strange with allegedly stealing and selling unreleased Eminem music that leaked online in January 2025  —  A man has been charged with stealing and selling unreleased Eminem music that leaked to the web earlier this year.
John R. Ellement / The Boston Globe:
The New Yorker contests a judge's order to turn over research from a story on Lindsay Clancy, who is awaiting trail for allegedly killing her three children  —  The New Yorker magazine is fighting a judge's order to provide prosecutors with research materials from their reporter who profiled …
Discussion: Herald News
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The NYT says it will start tracking public opinion surveys to build “on the work of the politics website 538”, providing the data in the same format as 538  —  When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site's publicly available polling databases …
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says the Disney+ show's scripts will not be released as planned, due to fears that they could be used as AI training data  —  Tony Gilroy doesn't want his work to become training data. … Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy told Collider he has killed plans to publish …
Financial Times:
Sources detail how Jeff Bezos making peace with Trump has stunned WaPo's newsroom, which has seen at least a dozen seasoned journalists leave for competitors  —  In the past year, the Amazon founder has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with the president that has surprised even longtime associates
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Source: The Washington Post shut down its FAST channel earlier in March, after originally launching it on Amazon's free streaming platform Freevee in May 2023  —  The Washington Post has thrown in the towel on its streaming television aspirations.  —  The newspaper shut down its free …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck and @webbarr
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, which let users earning rewards, in June 2025  —  Video Quests will start rolling out to mobile users in June. … Discord is bringing third-party ads to its mobile platform.
Reuters:
Sources: Axel Springer is considering a sale of its affiliate marketing unit Awin, which could be worth ~$436M  —  German media group Axel Springer is considering a sale of its affiliate marketing unit Awin, according to three people familiar with the matter, following the planned break-up its owners agreed last year.
Discussion: MediaPost
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Ziff Davis' Everyday Health acquires women-focused newsletter company theSkimm, whose co-CEOs will stay on with no plans to lay off any of its 75 staffers  —  Ziff Davis, one of the largest publicly-traded digital media companies, has acquired TheSkimm, executives told Axios.
 
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist whose reporting led to the release of a Korean immigrant on death row in California, died on March 8 at age 96
Miranda Green / Nieman Lab:
Greenpeace accuses Dakota Access Pipeline's owner of using a direct mailer, stylized as a local newspaper called Central ND News, to sway the jury in a lawsuit
Financial Times:
Sportradar will take over Endeavor's IMG Arena data platform and its portfolio of sports betting rights in a deal where Endeavor will pay Sportradar $225M
Justin Kaufmann / Axios:
The Chicago Sun-Times' film critic Richard Roeper takes a voluntary buyout after 37 years at the paper; the Sun-Times guild says 15 of its members took buyouts
Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Source: Ketchup Entertainment is negotiating an all-rights acquisition for ~$50M for Warner Bros' movie Coyote vs. Acme, which was shelved in November 2023
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Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on his 25-year anniversary at Netflix, his cameo on Apple TV+ series The Studio, competing with suppliers like Disney, and more
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices for the first time in a decade and making remote playback for personal media a paid feature at $1.99/month or $19.99/year
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Vice Media buys commercial and music video production studio London Alley, which will merge with Vice's Pulse to form Vice Commercials and Branded Entertainment
Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times:
The California Film Commission chooses a record 51 films to receive incentives in the state's film and TV tax credit program, including 46 indie films
 

 
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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

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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