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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
In a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger, FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the FCC is opening an investigation into DEI practices of Disney and ABC — - Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, is now investigating Disney over its DEI practices.
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Guardian US expects $44M in donations in the US and Canada in 2025, up 33% YoY; contributions make up 60% of revenue, which exceeded costs by $16M in 2024 — There was a time in media when having a billionaire owner was an asset. For many outlets, this is still the case …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: the Los Angeles Times has laid off dozens of employees on the business side this week, including VP of Communications Hillary Manning — The newspaper slashed dozens of business-side staffers this week—including its longtime chief spokesperson—in a painful new round of cuts, Status has learned.
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@pinemikey.bsky.social, Breitbart, TVNewsCheck, The Wrap, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social and @passantino.bsky.social
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Adalytics: DoubleVerify, IAS, and Human Security, paid by advertisers to detect bots, regularly miss such traffic; DoubleVerify missed 21% of bot visits — Companies that claim to help brands avoid serving digital ads to bots regularly miss nonhuman traffic
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Penske Media and Tasty Media plan a Spanish-language edition of The Hollywood Reporter with original content, following editions in Italy, India, and Japan — The partnership sees the iconic entertainment brand expand its reach with Spanish-speaking readers in Latin America and Spain.
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Diego Ortiz on LinkedIn
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
AP photographer Evan Vucci and AP Chief White House Correspondent Zeke Miller testified Thursday about damage done by the White House ban on the wire service — Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci testified at a court hearing in the AP's lawsuit over being kicked out of the White House press pool.
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Independent, New Jersey Online, @seungminkim, @peterbakernyt, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Stephanie Smith on LinkedIn, Lindsay Stewart on LinkedIn, The Hill, Saeed Ahmed on LinkedIn, @whoa-magic.lol, Giada Zampano on LinkedIn, Mediaite, @danlinder.bsky.social, Deadline, @kyledcheney.bsky.social, The Associated Press and The Wrap
Student Press Law Center:
A press freedom coalition condemns US immigration officials' detention of a Turkish Ph.D. student who co-wrote an op-ed supporting Palestinians in March 2024 — - Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — The Student Press Law Center and 10 other free speech …
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ABC News, @hamishmckenzie, @penamerica, @penamerica, The Federalist, @brianstelter, PEN America, @freedom.press, Reuters, @splc.org and The Tufts Daily
Washington Post:
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg says the Trump administration's lies regarding Signal chats on Yemen attack plans prompted him to reveal the texts — The Trump administration tried to paint the veteran journalist as a liar, so he felt compelled to prove them wrong — and he had the receipts.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
A look at AI-generated fake movie trailers on YouTube; WBD, Paramount, and Sony have earned ad revenue from some videos instead of defending their copyright — Cut to Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor watching on and Milly Alcock's Supergirl levitating into view. “They are not from here,” Luthor intones in an ominous voiceover.
Kate Lamb / The Guardian:
Amid increasing intimidation of journalists in Indonesia, journalists working for Tempo, an outlet critical of the government, received dead animals as threats — Grisly gifts a worrying turn for press freedom in world's third-largest democracy — Warning: some readers may find an image in this story distressing
Discussion:
WIPs galore, Editor and Publisher, Committee to Protect … and Reporters Without Borders
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google will pay $100M in cash to settle a 2011 lawsuit accusing the company of charging for clicks on ads outside the geographic areas the advertisers targeted — Google has agreed to pay $100 million in cash to settle a long-running lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers by failing …
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MediaPost and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers' allegations that the mobile ad company's ad performance numbers are fraudulent — It followed a Muddy Waters report released on Thursday that alleged that AppLovin was misappropriating data and violating some of its platform partners' terms of service …
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CNBC, AppLovin, Yahoo Finance, Business Wire and Benzinga, more at Techmeme »
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