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Minho Kim / New York Times:
A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March — A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.
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Reporters Without Borders, The Daily Caller, @rsf.org, TVNewsCheck and The Independent
Lila Shapiro / Vulture:
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use — “We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more — Today, I'm talking with Runway CEO and cofounder Cris Valenzuela. This one's special: Cris and I were live at an event in New York City …
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Peter White / Deadline:
Sources: WBD initiates a round of layoffs in its cable TV divisions, affecting well under 100 employees and largely impacting the Discovery side of the company — Deadline understands the company is set to lay off employees on the cable television side of its business.
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Variety, Adweek, C21Media, The Desk, NewscastStudio, AV Club, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, TVNewsCheck, Cord Cutters News and Washington Times
Feras Kilani / BBC:
A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9 — On the morning of 9 May, I was part of a BBC Arabic team which left the Syrian capital, Damascus, for the southern province of Deraa.
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The Wrap, Deadline, ABC, National Union of Journalists …, Al Jazeera, BusinessLIVE, NewsMax.com and WTOP News
Karishma Mehrotra / Washington Post:
Major Indian newsrooms aired misinformation during the conflict with Pakistan in May, saying Pakistani cities had been destroyed and airing unrelated visuals — Journalists from some of India's largest news networks spoke to The Post about why falsehoods filled the airwaves during a crucial and dangerous moment.
Max Tani / Semafor:
UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation over a May 21 story about nursing home cost-cutting, accusing the outlet of capitalizing on its CEO's killing — The Scoop — UnitedHealthcare is suing The Guardian for defamation over a story the publication ran related to its billing for nursing home residents.
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Alternet.org, Talking Biz News, @maxtani.bsky.social and Becker's Hospital Review
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun appoints Jack Elsom as political editor, replacing Harry Cole, who is relocating to the US to become editor at large, and drops its business page — Jack Elsom has been named as political editor of The Sun taking over from Harry Cole. — This follows news that Cole is moving across …
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@jackelsom, @kateferguson4, InPublishing and @mrharrycole
Emine Saner / The Guardian:
Some creatives and academics are rejecting generative AI at work and at home on environmental and ethical grounds, but realize they may end up using it anyway — Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone's jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Newsweek acquires adtech firm Adprime, a demand-side platform focused on healthcare marketers, to strengthen its health vertical and grow B2B revenue — The tie-up is part of a broader bid from the publisher to diversify its advertising — The 93-year-old publisher Newsweek has acquired …
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Danielle Varvaro on LinkedIn, Roy K Lee on LinkedIn, Mark Stenberg on LinkedIn and MediaPost
Rhi Storer / Press Gazette:
Some YouTube channels are using AI to turn paywalled articles into videos without the consent of publishers, often adding inaccuracies — Youtube channels are using AI to steal words and photographs from paywalled news content and reproduce articles wholesale without the consent of publishers.
Discussion:
lawsociety.ie and Press Gazette
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers — Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture
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Telegraph, The Independent and The New World
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