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8:10 AM ET, July 16, 2025

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
In 2024-25, 50 on-air BBC journalists earned above £178K, up from 46 in 2023-24; Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce were the top-paid following Huw Edwards' exit  —  Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce are now the highest-paid journalists at the BBC after the departure of Huw Edwards, according to the BBC annual report for 2024/25.
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B
Discussion: Mirror, Deadline and TVBEurope
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with BBC Commercial CEO Tom Fussell on the company's record revenue, BritBox's international growth, BBC's paywall in the US, YouTube, and more
Discussion: Deadline, Decode TV and WORLD SCREEN
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
IAB survey: 86% of digital ad buyers use or plan to use generative AI for video ad creation, and expect it will account for 40% of all video ads by 2026  —  More than half of advertisers are using generative AI to create spots, the IAB concludes in its latest report.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Lee Enterprises adds a $4.99-per-month “temporary” surcharge to its newspaper subscriptions, citing inflation and global tariffs  —  Lee Enterprises, one of the last remaining independent local newspaper companies, has added a $4.99 per month “temporary” surcharge to its newspaper subscriptions …
Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline:
CNN's Jeremy Diamond says Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked the car he was in while on assignment; a Deutsche Welle team was attacked there on July 4  —  CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond has reported that Israeli settlers attacked the car that he and his crew were traveling …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Internal memo: NYT Culture Editor Sia Michel says four critics, including long-time music critic Jon Pareles, will be reassigned as the section seeks new voices  —  The New York Times is revamping its lineup of arts and entertainment critics — replacing four of the paper's TV …
Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sky and ITV renew their long-standing content partnership, ensuring major ITV shows remain on all Sky TV platforms in the UK, without disclosing financial terms  —  ITV's biggest shows, such as ‘Love Island’ and ‘Trigger Point,’ will remain available across all Sky TV platforms in Britain.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: broadcast TV made up 18.5% of viewing in June, the first time it has fallen below 20% since Nielsen began tracking TV use by platform four years ago  —  Netflix, led by ‘Ginny & Georgia,’ has a strong June and streaming once again outpaces traditional TV.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Jessica Lessin's softball TITV interview with Mark Zuckerberg without disclosing their close personal ties raises thorny ethical issues and insults her newsroom  —  Jessica Lessin's glitchy Mark Zuckerberg interview raised eyebrows in tech-media circles—but not just because of the technical failure.
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs  —  Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK.  Users attempting to access certain pirate sites …
Peter White / Deadline:
HBO and HBO Max tops Emmy nominations with 142, a record for HBO, Disney gets 128 across all its platforms, Netflix lands 121, and Apple scores 79  —  The Warner Bros. Discovery network scored 142 Emmy nominations, compared to 121 for Netflix.  —  This marks the most Emmy nominations HBO …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners  —  Roblox is launching a new licensing platform to streamline the process for IP rights holders to partner with creators on the gaming platform.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Nextdoor unveils a redesign and a partnership with 3,500+ local news providers across the US, the UK, and Canada that will contribute material to the app  —  Nextdoor, the social media site that aims to create connections among neighbors, is trying to shake off an uneven past and a nagging sense it is being underutilized.
 
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The UK lifts an unprecedented two-year superinjunction that prevented media from revealing a data breach containing the names of Afghans applying for relocation
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Play, its first ad-supported subscription plan, currently available on a limited basis for less than $7 per month
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Some non-citizen journalists working in the US are self-censoring, wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans, and more, fearing deportation
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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

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

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
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