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6:50 AM ET, May 21, 2025

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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
A look at some of the projects looking to raise money from Democratic megadonors as party strategists try to “find the next Joe Rogan”  —  At private gatherings, strategists and donors are swapping ideas to help the party capture the digital mojo that helped President Trump win.
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
LA mayor Karen Bass issues an executive directive to streamline city processes, lower filming costs, and ease shoots at well-known city-owned locations  —  With film and TV production in Los Angeles down by roughly one-third in recent years, Mayor Karen Bass took steps to make it easier to shoot at top locations.
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
The Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a supplement featuring an AI-generated guide to summer books that do not exist  —  Well, this is embarrassing.  The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have been caught running an AI-generated guide to summer books that don't exist.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers  —  A.I. has yet to upend Hollywood.  But it is starting to make big inroads in animation.  —  The founders of Toonstar …
CNBC:
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, alongside a new AI filmmaking tool Flow and expanded access to Lyria 2  —  Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio.  —  The artificial intelligence tool competes …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: under Kristi Noem, the DHS has significantly expanded the use of polygraph exams to identify employees suspected of leaking information to the media  —  The information that DHS employees are accused of sharing with media often isn't classified  —  WASHINGTON—In a small interrogation room …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
ITV tells staff it plans to cut 220 jobs in a major daytime overhaul, which includes scaling back shows and moving Good Morning Britain to ITV News producer ITN  —  ITV will make more than 220 redundancies under the sweeping changes, but it has promised to reinvest all savings …
Killian Faith-Kelly / Press Gazette:
An interview with Jonathan Nunn, founder of Vittles, a newsletter about food that has 84,000 subscribers, on the decision to launch a biannual print magazine  —  Why popular food Substack-based newsletter Vittles has launched a magazine.  —  The first time Vittles founder Jonathan Nunn read …
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of Tony Reali as Around the Horn, the ESPN show that he hosts and which showcases sportswriters, draws to an end on May 23  —  Canceled by the network, an ESPN staple ends this week.  Its longtime host is still trying to understand why — and what's next.
Bill Adair / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Richard Gingras, Google's longtime global VP for news who announced his retirement last week, on the news industry's decline, AI, local news, and more  —  “If there's a regret, it's that I was not as effective as I would have liked to be in influencing and driving change across the board.”
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Three US senators send Shari Redstone a letter questioning whether Paramount is engaging in bribery by settling Trump's lawsuit to influence merger approval  —  Lawmakers raise concerns that CBS News parent Paramount risks violating bribery laws in pursuit of potential Trump settlement
 
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Julian Wyllie / Current:
PBS furloughs 25% of PBS Kids staff after the Department of Education canceled the Ready to Learn grant at the start of May 2025
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Antenna: ad tiers made up 46% of US subscriptions at SVOD platforms offering ad-free and ad-supported plans at the end of March 2025, up from 39% in March 2024
Sara Fischer / Axios:
At The Moment Media launches to give execs the ability to pay for their video coverage and says it's a complement to traditional journalism and not a competitor
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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Inside the US case against a North Carolina man who the government claims made $10M+ in royalties between 2017 and 2024 by using bot armies to stream AI tracks
Ayushi Kar / The Reporters' Collective:
How Indian news agency ANI is using YouTube's copyright policy in India to demand high licensing fees and shut down YouTubers, including those critical of Modi
 

 
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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

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”
 
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