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8:55 PM ET, June 5, 2025

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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.
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 …
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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
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
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.
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.
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.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise  —  Signal is Microsoft's response to a world of noise and ephemeral content. … Of all the many ways Microsoft could mark its 50th anniversary …
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.
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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Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Russell Simmons sues HBO and the directors of On the Record for $20M, alleging they defamed him in their documentary on sexual assault allegations against him
Tom Levitt / The Guardian:
UK-based BBC Persian journalists say their families in Iran are being terrorized and punished by the Iranian regime, with a sharp escalation in 2025
 

 
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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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