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8:50 PM ET, July 16, 2025

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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.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert condemns parent company Paramount Global settling President Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes story as a “big fat bribe”  —  This isn't a joke.  They've made that clear.  —  CBS “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert condemned parent company Paramount …
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The Trump administration sues three members of CPB, seeking approval for their terminations, after attempting to fire them on April 28  —  The president fired three Democrats running the organization that funds NPR and PBS, but they say the terminations were illegal.  —  Summary
Tyler Falk / Current:
New York Public Radio CEO LaFontaine Oliver is stepping down from the position and stepping into the newly created position of executive chair  —  " id="street-iframe-s7se0jq3ffk0000000000 " style="max-width: 100%;">  —  Oliver said the board asked him to serve in the new role as threats to public broadcasting mount.
Discussion: Inside Radio and Radio Ink
Vanessa Rancaño / KQED:
Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled  —  KQED announced Tuesday it's laying off 45 people and losing 12 more who took voluntary departure offers, marking a 15% reduction …
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  —  The video advertising landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, with half of advertisers already using generative AI (GenAI) …
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.
Christian Lorentzen / New York Times:
A review of Empire of the Elite, NYT reporter Michael Grynbaum's new book about the “insider-outsiders” who led Condé Nast titles in the magazines' heyday  —  “Empire of the Elite,” by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American magazines in their heyday.
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ITV News:
The UK lifts an unprecedented two-year superinjunction that prevented media from revealing a data breach containing the names of Afghans applying for relocation
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCU reaches a $3.6M settlement with LA County in a lawsuit over the absence of an easy mechanism to cancel automatically renewing Peacock subscriptions  —  In the lawsuit, Los Angeles County targeted the studio's failure to give users a simple cancellation method.
Discussion: Reuters, Deadline and Cord Cutters News
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Press Forward announces $22.7M in grants to 22 newsroom projects, after announcing $20M in grants to 205 small local newsrooms last fall  —  Press Forward, the philanthropic coalition that has vowed to grant at least $500 million to local news over five years, announced $22.7 million in grants to 22 newsroom projects on Tuesday.
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
Oxford University Press stops publishing a journal sponsored by China's Ministry of Justice after years of concerns it did not meet standards on DNA collection  —  Move follows concerns several papers in Forensic Sciences Research did not meet ethical standards on DNA collection
 
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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
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders to collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners
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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
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
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
 

 
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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:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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