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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated the US Constitution and the First Amendment — NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Tamar Riley, global managing director at Refinery29 since July 2022, is set to join The Standard, formerly The Evening Standard, as CEO on July 14 — The new chief executive of The Standard will join from women's lifestyle brand Refinery29 in July. — Tamar Riley has been global managing director …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery — “David arrived at CNN in tumultuous times and did a brilliant job stabilizing the company at a difficult moment.
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The Wrap, TVNewsCheck, Deadline, @dylanbyers and The Hollywood Reporter
Joe Holley / The Texas Observer:
Ronnie Dugger, the founding editor, publisher, and owner of the Austin-based Texas Observer, where he exposed bigotry and corporate greed, has died at 95 — Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience …
Bloomberg:
Filing: Tencent is buying a ~10% stake in SM Entertainment for ~$180M from BTS agency Hybe, as China is expected to lift its unofficial ban on K-pop concerts — Tencent Music Entertainment Group, which is controlled by Tencent, will buy the stake from BTS-agency Hybe Co Ltd. …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser is stepping down after 16 years; she launched a Substack newsletter in March that has 705K+ subscribers — The influential lifestyle publisher has struggled following its pandemic heyday. — The co-founder and executive chair of Food52, Amanda Hesser …
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
A US judge dismissed Rumble's antitrust suit accusing Google of violating antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in search results and its other products — A federal judge has dismissed conservative video platform Rumble's claims that Google violated antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube …
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Truth on the Market, Reuters, City A.M. and Digiday
Bloomberg:
Sources: QVC is consulting advisers to explore options for its $5B+ debt; its stock has fallen 99%+ in the past four years, cutting its market cap to ~$72M — Representative for Evercore and PJT Partners declined to comment. Representatives for QVC, Kirkland & Ellis and Davis Polk & Wardwell …
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Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending “millions and millions” on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images — Peters told CNBC in an interview that both Stability AI — the U.K.-based startup best known for its text …
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Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for potential child safety DSA violations “as a matter of priority” — New rules compel large online platforms to do more to protect users — The European Commission is investigating whether …
Lauren Egan / The Bulwark:
Substack aims to become the essential online arena for politics and is approaching candidates to join; Pete Buttigieg and other Democrats are on the platform — Dems hoping the platform can provide the audience and influence they want for 2028. — How Dems Stack Up on Substack
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Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
A look at the “New Media Circuit” that stars must navigate to create publicity for their work as legacy media's influence ebbs and media fragmentation grows — Last fall, when Andrew Garfield began promoting the elegiac A24 romance We Live in Time, his publicity campaign centered …
