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Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: the White House plans to impose its own seating chart for briefing room reporters, taking over a function long managed by the reporters through the WHCA — The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room in coming weeks …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” — The BBC faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” in the year to come, the corporation's Annual Plan setting out priorities for the next 12 months has said.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company — Reach CEO Jim Mullen is stepping down after six years with immediate effect. — Mullen will be succeeded as Reach CEO by Piers North, currently chief revenue officer.
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban, who has acquired 92 community newspapers across the US with the goal of revitalizing local journalism — An entrepreneur who owns 92 local newspapers confronts tariffs, distrust of print outlets and changing news diets
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: David Zaslav has started meeting with candidates who could replace film studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, whose contracts expire in 2026 — The talks with potential successors are at an early and informal stage, and a final decision on the futures of De Luca and Abdy has not been made …
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources describe rising tensions at Warner Bros. Pictures amid movie flops, with WBD CEO David Zaslav losing confidence in co-heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy
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J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
WBD's Max quietly launches a new logo with a monochrome color palette that evokes the longtime HBO branding, ditching its shiny blue UI — It's not HBO, it's Max — but the new standalone logo for Warner Bros. Discovery's streamer now certainly looks like HBO's at a glance.
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo hires Josh Line, who was most recently Paramount Global's chief brand officer, as its CMO to revive its brand as “one of the OGs of the internet” — Internet pioneer names Josh Line, who was previously Paramount Global's chief brand officer, to reinvigorate its once-towering brand
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC Sports hires Betsy Riley, an NBC Sports veteran who recently led some Amazon sports offerings, to oversee production of its primetime Olympics program — Looks like NBC's new pop-culture primetime Olympics show is becoming permanent. — NBC Sports said Monday that it had lured Betsy Riley …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bloomberg has had to correct at least three dozen AI-generated summaries on top of news articles since it started showing them early this year — The outlet has issued dozens of corrections to A.I.-generated news summaries since it started using the technology to write them this year.
Max Tani / Semafor:
An interview with California Governor Gavin Newsom on his new weekly podcast, backlash to his interviews with conservative figures, media strategies, and more — The Scoop — As Democrats begin their slow slog back to power, they're grappling with what may be their most vexing problem …
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 36% of Americans say they hear a lot about Trump's relationship with the media, down from 72% in 2017; 71% follow Trump administration news closely — Far fewer are hearing about the administration's relationship with the media than was the case early in Trump's first term
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
MoffettNathanson: YouTube will surpass Disney in 2025 to become the largest media company by revenue, after generating $54.2B in 2024, just $5.5B behind Disney — - YouTube is big. Really big. Really, really big. — How big? Try this: It's about to become the biggest media company in the world.
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