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10:45 AM ET, April 24, 2025

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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports Peacock losses fell to $215M in Q1 from $639M in Q1 2024, revenue rose 16% YoY to $1.2B, and paying subscribers hit 41M, up from 36M in Q4 2024  —  The cable giant also unveiled its first-quarter results for the entertainment unit and other operations.
Discussion: Broadband TV News
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Comcast reports Q1 revenue down 0.6% YoY to $29.89B, Media revenue up 1% YoY to $6.4B, and adjusted EBITDA up 21.5% to $1B; Comcast lost 427K cable subscribers  —  Comcast delivered first-quarter results slightly better than Wall Street expectations, but its shares fell in pre-market trading Thursday.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Tortoise plans to launch Observer.co.uk on April 25 and publish eight to 12 stories per day; Tortoise co-CEO Richard Furness says “we can buck the market trend”  —  Press Gazette speaks to new co-CEO, digital editor and creative director of The Observer under Tortoise.
Associated Press:
Harvey Weinstein's retrial opens with a new jury assessing previous sexual assault allegations and a new claim; his 2020 rape conviction was overturned in 2024  —  Harvey Weinstein 's #MeToo retrial opened Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at familiar rape and sexual assault allegations …
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Imogen Heap releases five “stylefilters” on AI music platform Jen for $4.99 for 90 minutes of creations; user prompts are fused with one of five Heap songs  —  “We can't let only the people who want to do it for profit or want to do it for their own gain be making the decisions,” Heap says.
Discussion: Forbes and Rolling Stone
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Karen Durbin, former editor-in-chief of the Village Voice and film critic for The New York Times and other publications, died on April 15 at 80  —  A fierce advocate of sexual liberation, she pushed the alternative weekly to cover women's issues, as well as gay rights and avant-garde culture.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Bill Grueskin on why the verdict in Sarah Palin's trial was unsurprising and why she is the wrong plaintiff in the right-wing push to overturn Sullivan  —  “Two things can be true: you can publish something about a public figure that is clearly false, and you can avoid being held financially liable for having done so."
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more  —  Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
TelevisaUnivision Q1: $11.7M in net income, up from a $52M loss in Q1 2024, revenue down 11% YoY to $1.02B, subscription and licensing revenue down 7% to $438M  —  Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision said its first quarter swung to a profit as the company reduced expenses and saw …
Discussion: Deadline
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
DMG launches The Crime Desk, its first paid podcast subscription, for £1.99/month, to capitalize on the “juggernaut” success of Daily Mail's true crime podcasts  —  DMG Media has launched a subscription podcast product, The Crime Desk, offering paying listeners exclusive episodes …
Discussion: Jamie East on LinkedIn and Podnews
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at the budget struggles of anti-corruption nonprofit outlet OCCRP, which has only received ~23% of the $6.6M it was slated to get from the US in 2025  —  “We've worked in autocratic regimes our whole life.  Keeping your head down doesn't work.”  —  Going toe-to-toe with the United States government is not easy.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Conservative outlet The Dispatch acquires SCOTUSblog; the blog will remain free and co-founder Amy Howe and some writers are signing long-term contracts to stay  —  The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost.
 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Sources: Olafimihan Oshin, The Hill reporter whose dismissal was reportedly linked to Truth Social dropping Nexstar from a lawsuit, had prior performance issues
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Analysis: three X users who used to receive hundreds of thousands of views daily have seen their reach collapse after feuding with Elon Musk in December 2024
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
YouTube plans to expand its multiview feature beyond sports, starting with tests in the coming weeks to let users stream up to four popular channels at a time
Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
UK licensing bodies announce a collective license to ensure authors are paid for the use of their works to train AI models, expected to be available this summer
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says it is opening Threads to all advertisers worldwide, but ads will only appear in select markets at launch, after testing ads in the US and Japan
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
How WBD rebuilt Max to focus on adult-oriented shows like The Pitt, dropping Netflix's “more is better” approach, and expects it to hit 150M subscribers in 2026
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The EU fines Meta €200M after finding that it illegally required users to consent to sharing their data or pay for an ad-free service; Meta plans to appeal
Reuters Institute:
A survey of UK journalists in September to November 2023: 90% are white, ~63% are 40 or older, 77% are left-leaning, and 28% are freelance, up from 17% in 2015
Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
A US judge orders the Trump administration to “take all necessary steps” to reinstate employees and resume broadcasts of VOA and other government-funded radio
 

 
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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

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

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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