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Oliver Darcy / Status:
White House officials appear to be withholding pool reporters' dispatches that contain information the Trump administration finds inconvenient or unflattering — Some White House pool reports are no longer making it to the official distribution list, Status has learned …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Some senior Trump press aides have refused to engage with reporters' questions because the journalists listed identifying pronouns in their email signatures
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US judge orders the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the AP while the AP's lawsuit moves forward
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Media and tech stocks jump after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with WBD closing up 17%+, Netflix up 8%+, Disney up 12%+, and Meta up 14%+ — The S&P 500 jumped nearly 8% Wednesday following President Donald Trump's announcement that a 90-day pause would be put on the proposed tariffs for non-retaliating countries.
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
YouTube, the RIAA, and SAG-AFTRA express support for the reintroduced NO FAKES Act, which standardizes rules around making AI copies of a person's likeness — The legislation that would establish rules around the use of AI copies of someone's likeness is once again up for consideration.
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Trump accuses ex-DHS official Miles Taylor of treason and directs the DOJ to investigate him over his “anonymous” essay and book criticizing Trump's first term — Want to avoid video ads? Subscribe to — President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department …
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Reuters:
A Delaware judge rules Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems with its false reporting accusing Dominion of rigging the 2020 US presidential election — Conservative news outlet Newsmax Media (NMAX.N) defamed Dominion Voting Systems with its false reporting accusing the voting machine company …
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Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles — Wide-ranging research from Poynter and the University of Minnesota sheds light on how people feel about AI in journalism. It's not pretty.
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A NY jury orders Oscar-nominated director James Toback to pay $1.68B to 40 women who accused him of abusing his power to sexually assault women for four decades — Director James Toback, who was among the first to be singled out in the #MeToo scandal in 2017, was ordered on Wednesday …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Dow Jones and WSJ UK management end voluntary recognition talks with the NUJ to instead recognize News Union, which is funded by sister company News UK — Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal UK management have halted voluntary recognition talks with the National Union of Journalists …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state identified via their online activity — Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell …
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Liberty Media has been shopping F1 rights at ~$150M-$180M per year, starting with the 2026 season, up to double what ESPN has been paying recently — Liberty Media's F1 seeking $150 million to $180 million a year for fast-growing sport — Formula One is among the fastest-growing sports …
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Lauren Sherman / @lapresmidi:
Condé Nast names Vanity Fair deputy editor Daniel Kile as interim EIC while it searches for a successor to Radhika Jones — News: Vanity Fair deputy editor Daniel Kile has been named INTERIM EIC while Conde Nast searches for a successor to Radhika Jones. Read more about the succession search on Line Sheet @PuckNews https://puck.news/...
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com launches an AI website builder to help users create a website via its chat-style interface, available to WordPress users for free — Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a new AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI chat-style interface.
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