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1:45 AM ET, May 16, 2025

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Washington Post:
More than 500 Voice of America contractors are expected to lose their jobs by June 30; Kari Lake says 584 total employees were terminated across USAGM  —  More than 500 of the news service's contractors could be out of a job on June 30.  —  More than 500 Voice of America contractors …
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Kelly Kasulis Cho / Washington Post:
A profile of Ulviyya Ali, a VOA journalist in Azerbaijan until February, who has been jailed, like others in the country, on charges of currency smuggling  —  Ulviyya Ali reported for Voice of America for years.  Trump's moves to dismantle the U.S.-funded outlet may have put her at greater risk, activists say.
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Filing: advertisers ask a US judge to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing them of boycotting the company, arguing X failed to show that they acted with any common plan  —  Major companies that curtailed advertising on Elon Musk's social media platform X over concerns about its ability …
Discussion: BMI, Futurism and Business Insider
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Zach Vallese / CNBC:
YouTube launches a weekly top podcast shows chart, tracking podcasts in the US and updated every Wednesday; The Joe Rogan Experience currently tops the chart
Roberto Ferdman / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Maine-base Civic Sunlight, which sends newsletters with AI-generated summaries of city council meetings and has partnered with local legacy news orgs  —  Twists and turns for a surprisingly well-received experiment in Maine.  —  When Tom Cochran and David Mortlock started kicking around ideas …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Puck has hired an AI tech reporter after it tried unsuccessfully to buy Casey Newton's Platformer for seven figures and hire Alex Heath from The Verge  —  Matt Belloni's voice reverberates through Hollywood's power corridors—now so do whispers about his future at Puck.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Filing: Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers  —  A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company's Claude AI chatbot …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Gaza journalists describe intimidation and assault by Hamas; the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate often doesn't publicize Hamas attacks for fear of reprisals  —  When Gazan journalist Tawfiq Abu Jarad received a phone call from a Hamas security agent warning him not to cover a protest …
Discussion: Middle East Monitor
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Brent Lang / Variety:
MoviePass secures a $100M capital investment from Global Emerging Markets to accelerate the development of Mogul, a fantasy gaming service launched this month  —  MoviePass has secured a $100 million capital investment from Global Emerging Markets to accelerate the development of Mogul …
Andrew J. Campa / Los Angeles Times:
California newsrooms will receive $10M, instead of the expected $30M, in FY 2025-26 from the state through a News Transformation Fund due to budget issues  —  - California newsrooms expected to receive $30 million from the state as part of a Newsroom Transformation Fund.
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU provisionally finds that TikTok breached the DSA by failing to offer a publicly searchable ad library, potentially opening the platform up to a fine  —  Ad transparency investigation is one of several ongoing European cases against social media platform
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Austin Fuller / Current:
NSF canceled a five-year, $1.2M grant for climate reporting to IndiJ Public Media in April and a PBS grant, though the majority of it was already spent
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Threads now lets users add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
MSNBC hires Politico senior managing editor Sudeep Reddy as its first-ever Washington bureau chief as it builds out reporting operations ahead of its spin-off
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Hedra, which offers a web-based video generation and editing suite used by creators to make video podcasts, raised a $32M Series A, after a $10M seed
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Court filings: Smartmatic accuses Fox News execs, including Rupert Murdoch, of intentionally destroying damning evidence in its 2020 election defamation case
The Times:
Andrew Norfolk, investigative journalist for The Times who exposed systematic sexual abuse of vulnerable girls by grooming gangs from 2011 onwards, died at 60
Alondra Nelson / Time:
Alondra Nelson resigns from the National Science Board and Library of Congress Scholars Council, citing DOGE's interference and eroded institutional integrity
Johnny Ryan / Irish Council for Civil Liberties:
The Belgian Court of Appeal rules that the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the ad industry, is illegal across Europe
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Open letter: SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton says a 2024 TOS update did not intend to allow AI training on user content; SoundCloud revised the wording on May 14
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery says it will change the name of its Max streaming service back to HBO Max this summer, and tweaks its logo; WBD dropped “HBO” in May 2023
 

 
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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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