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12:15 PM ET, September 9, 2025

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New York Times:
Lachlan Murdoch completes a deal to secure control of his family's media empire, ensuring that it remains conservative; source: the deal is valued at $3.3B  —  Lachlan Murdoch will take control of a new family trust in a deal worth $3.3 billion, ensuring that his father's media empire will retain its conservative slant.
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A profile of the intensely private Lachlan Murdoch, who moved to Sydney in 2021 and whose control of the Murdoch empire ensures it retains its conservative tilt  —  Photo Illustration by Zak Bickel/The New York Times; Photographs by Dina Litovsky for The New York Times; Emily Najera for The New York Times …
Reuters:
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after 19 people were killed and 100+ were injured in anti-corruption protests that were triggered by the ban  —  Nepal has lifted a social media ban following protests that resulted in the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Paramount appoints Kenneth Weinstein, former president and CEO of the conservative think tank Hudson Institute, as the ombudsman for CBS News  —  Paramount has tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, to serve as ombudsman for CBS News.
Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech:
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom  —  Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire …
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
US-based Refinery29 closes its UK office, lays off staff, and shuts down the UK operation of its Black women-focused sub-brand Unbothered  —  Refinery29 will continue operations in the US, France, and Germany.  —  US-based digital media company Refinery29 has closed its UK operations and made an unknown number of company-wide cuts.
Benjamin Stupples / Bloomberg:
Film production company Lion Forge, backed by David Steward's family, one of the US' biggest Black fortunes, raised $30M to help create racially diverse content  —  An Oscar-winning film production company backed by one of the US's richest Black families raised $30 million …
Stine Jacobsen / Reuters:
Swedish music rights organization STIM launches a license that lets AI companies train models on copyrighted works while paying royalties to creators  —  Sweden's music rights organisation has introduced a licence that allows artificial intelligence companies to legally use copyrighted songs …
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Major outlets have cut or reassigned cultural criticism roles, amid industry contraction and the difficulty of stand-alone reviews generating traffic  —  It has been a tough summer for cultural critics.  The Associated Press said it would end its weekly book reviews, citing …
Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law:
A US federal judge postpones Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes to force on authors  —  The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC's proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking …
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Minute Media, owner of The Players' Tribune, acquires VideoVerse, a software platform for distributing real-time sports highlights, in its largest deal to date
David Satin / The Streamable:
DAZN launches its NHL.TV streaming platform in nearly 200 countries, excluding Canada and the US, where the games stream on ABC, ESPN, and TNT
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said “the open web is already in rapid decline”, contradicting its statements from months ago
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Amy Mackinnon / Financial Times:
Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries
Max Tani / Semafor:
Former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya is launching Bungalow, a longform journalism project, and plans to publish ten digital editions annually
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech
 

 
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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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