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David Bauder / Associated Press:
About 40 to 50 Pentagon reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to new US government-imposed restrictions on their work — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions — In addition to getting both services at a discount of more than 30 percent, Apple TV will add select Peacock programming, while Peacock will get selected Apple TV shows.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CNN plans to launch its All Access streaming subscription tier on October 28 for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US — CNN is making another go of it with a subscription service, announcing an Oct. 28 launch for its “all access” service at a price of $6.99 per month.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Susan Stamberg, an original NPR staffer who went on to become the first US woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died at 87 — Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, died Thursday at the age of 87.
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Natalie Korach / Status:
Vox hires Astead Herndon from the NYT to host a new video podcast and serve as editorial director starting on October 20, a significant loss for the NYT — Vox has poached Astead Herndon from The NYT to host a new video podcast and serve as editorial director, contributing to political coverage across all mediums for the outlet.
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
The Italian federation of newspaper publishers submits a complaint to Italy's communication watchdog calling for an investigation into Google's AI Overviews — Newspaper federation says ‘traffic killer’ feature violates legislation and threatens to destroy media diversity
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News' Standards chief Claudia Milne announces her departure, becoming the first senior executive to leave since the arrival of Bari Weiss as EIC — Claudia Milne, who has overseen standards and practices at CBS News since 2021, announced her departure from the Paramount Skydance unit Thursday morning …
Hiten Samtani / @hitsamty:
Colossus, with deeply reported profiles of tech and business moguls, is a magazine where “punches will be pulled, but the reading pleasure isn't sacrificed” — The team at Colossus is breaking something in magazine journalism in a fascinating way. Let me try to articulate. Even just a few years ago, if you wanted to read a beautifully written, exhaustively reported and actually interesting piece on someone shaping a corner of the [image]
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Economist, the FT, and Dow Jones are licensing their archives and live content to enterprise clients for use in their private LLMs — Publishers are increasingly licensing decades of archived reporting to corporate clients' private LLMs — a potential path to recurring …
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The BBC publishes the results from its “Our Future, Our BBC” survey, completed by 872K+ viewers, showing only 43% say it is “effective” in being independent — The BBC has an independence perception problem. — That's one of the key findings of a major audience survey undertaken …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Le Monde joins more than 20 publishers in offering NYT subscriptions to some subscribers at no extra cost, exposing NYT to new audiences — A new subscription bundle with Le Monde, coupled with the promise of AI translation, underscore its untapped international audience
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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
India-based Kuku, which offers audio and vertical video stories, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a ~$500M valuation and says it has 10M+ subscribers — Kuku, an Indian storytelling platform backed by Google, has raised $85 million in fresh funding as it aims to scale its audio …
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