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2:00 PM ET, May 28, 2025

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The UK's Press Gazette launches a paywall, charging £9.99 per month or £99 per year, and plans to add AI-enhanced search, its first app, and a print product  —  Press Gazette today launches a metered paywall to help us fund the next stage of our expansion.
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 …
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 …
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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Axios:
Source: WaPo will not replace departed PR chief Kathy Baird as it focuses on organic media coverage around its talent and products, rather than traditional PR  —  After a brief and informal search process, the Washington Post has decided not to replace its departed communications chief Kathy Baird, a source told Axios.
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
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 …
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 …
 
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of search and the web, seeing “overall query growth”, News Media Alliance calling AI Mode “theft”, and more
Kelly Burke / The Guardian:
Australia's communications regulator: commercial TV networks have significantly cut their spending on kids' scripted content, with just $1.75M spent in 2023-24
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Leaked memos: WaPo announces voluntary buyouts for employees with 10+ years of service and for members of the video department, copy desk, and opinion section
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Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:
Trump Media & Technology Group plans to sell ~$1.5B in stock and $1B in 0% convertible notes to buy bitcoin for its treasury
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
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”
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
 

 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web

George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+

Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender”
 
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