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10:40 AM ET, May 30, 2025

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Business Insider is cutting staff by 21% to “endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control” and “exiting the majority of our Commerce business”  —  Business Insider is making significant layoffs — cutting 21% of staffers across the board …
New York Times:
The New York Times agrees to license editorial content to Amazon for use in its AI platforms, marking NYT's first licensing deal with a focus on generative AI  —  In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.  Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products  —  A high-profile lawsuit between two rival lifestyle and shopping influencers would have rewritten copyright law and changed the creator industry.
Pew Research Center:
Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account  —  The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities.
Nikita Mazurov / The Intercept:
PBS station WNET removed at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity and drag expression, following a DOGE subcommittee hearing  —  The New York-area PBS station WNET has scrubbed its archives of at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity …
Discussion: @mvario.bsky.social
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams wins a defamation case against the BBC over a documentary that claimed that Adams had sanctioned an MI5 informant's murder  —  Former Sinn Féin leader sued broadcaster over allegation in documentary that he sanctioned murder of MI5 informant
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Disney launches a new perks program for Disney+ US subscribers, offering discounts, free items, and more; Hulu plans to debut its own perks program on June 2  —  Hulu customers can also win TV show and concert tickets  —  Walt Disney Co. is expanding a program of perks for subscribers …
Deadline:
Sources: Lionsgate Motion Picture Group President Nathan Kahane is expected to leave his post by 2025's end and transition to a producing deal with the studio  —  Reps for Lionsgate declined to comment.  Sources said that when the transition has been completed, Erin Westerman is expected …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
PA Media journalists back a no confidence vote against EIC Jack Lefley, who has led the newsroom since the start of 2025, due to proposed newsroom cuts  —  Journalists at PA Media have voted in favour of a motion of no confidence in their editor-in-chief after just five months in the role amid planned newsroom cuts.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount offers $15M to settle with President Trump, whose team wants $25M+, is seeking an apology from CBS News, and threatened another lawsuit  —  President's team threatened another lawsuit amid settlement talks  —  A month into negotiations between Paramount Global …
 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Times Media Group's Steve Strickbine, who employs 60 journalists across 60+ local US papers and says papers are better off diminished than dead
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at YouTube's changes to become viewers' preferred TV service and to appeal more to advertisers, and at creators' push into sitcoms, like Alan's Universe
Wall Street Journal:
Making a short AI film with tools from Google, Runway, Elevenlabs, and Midjourney shows the tech has improved but takes tedious work to attain scene consistency
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Immediate Media's BBC History Magazine launches a Substack and a weekly podcast, and says it has 745,000 paying online subscribers, but print remains important
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Sources: all 800 full-time VOA staff are expected to receive reduction-in-force notices this week, after ~600 VOA contractors were dismissed earlier in May
 

 
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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

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

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
 
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