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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.
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Broadband TV News, Press Centre, ITV Media, Advanced Television and Decode TV
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 …
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Variety, @tdogmedia.bsky.social, Mashable, RADAR, The A.V. Club, NewsMax.com, The Wrap, Newsbusters, Fox News, The Guardian, Breitbart, TV Insider, LateNighter and Deadline
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.
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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) …
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IAB, Tubefilter, TV Tech, Marketing Brew and MarTech
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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@xlorentzen, @charlottetklein, New York Magazine and MSNBC
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
An interview with News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall about a now-lifted two-year super injunction to silence UK media over a government data breach — News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall has warned that the wide-ranging super injunction used to silence UK media for two years sets a “profoundly dangerous” precedent.
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@lewisgoodall.com, Metro.co.uk and Financial Times
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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
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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.
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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.
Discussion:
The Reporters Committee …, Poynter and URL Media
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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