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12:50 PM ET, June 13, 2025

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The US House votes 214-212 to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for public broadcasting for the next two fiscal years; the bill now heads to the Senate  —  The House of Representatives put the future of the public broadcasting ecosystem in doubt, as they voted to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the next two fiscal years.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vox Media Union says it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Vox Media, averting a strike  —  The Vox Media Union covers editorial staff at Vox.com, The Verge, Eater, SB Nation, Pop Sugar, Thrillist, Vox Media Podcast Network and The Dodo.  —  An overwhelming 90% of the members …
Peter White / Deadline:
The Outstanding Talk Series Emmy category will have only three nominations in 2025, down from five in 2023, due to getting just 13 submissions  —  The likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Sean Evans and John Mulaney will be battling it out for one of only three Emmy nominations.
Graham Kates / CBS News:
A federal appeals court denies Trump's request for a rehearing in the E. Jean Carroll case, where he was found liable in 2023 for sexual abuse and defamation  —  President Trump on Friday lost his latest effort to get a retrial in the case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll.
New York Times:
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content  —  The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Take-Two, NBA, and National Basketball Players Association expand their partnership to launch NBA Take-Two Media, producing original content, live events, more  —  The video game publisher of the NBA 2K franchise will partner with the league on original content and competitive gaming via its new banner …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site  —  Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network; the two had raised $15M for TCN in 2023  —  Tucker Carlson and his business partner, Neil Patel, recently bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network (TCN) …
Discussion: Barrett Media
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements  —  Full text of the tentative agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Google sues Brazilian airline LATAM in the US, seeking a declaration that Brazilian courts can't force Google to take down a YouTube video outside Brazil  —  Google sued Chile-based LATAM Airlines (LTM.SN) in U.S. federal court on Thursday, seeking a declaration that Brazilian courts cannot force …
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
With Google, Meta, and Amazon developing AI tools for ad campaigns, agencies are under threat, but large brands may still rely on agencies for unique concepts  —  Large companies will eventually follow small ones in using AI to create ad campaigns—undermining the agencies that have ruled the business for years, analysts say
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996  —  In a significant shakeup for the television industry, HBO, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, has confirmed plans to shut …
 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein's rape charge ends in a mistrial but he was found guilty of one count of a criminal sexual act and innocent of another in the NY retrial
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
TollBit: traffic from RAG bots, which scrape information in real time, to 266 websites, half of which are from news outlets, grew 49% from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025
The Guardian:
Researchers find evidence that a second fanpage.it journalist, along with an anonymous European journalist, were targeted using Graphite spyware
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Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Tubi announces plans to distribute 20+ films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market
Discussion: Bloomberg Law
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones
 

 
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Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado
 
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