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8:45 PM ET, October 16, 2025

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Doc: 15 people signed the Pentagon's press rules, including from The Federalist, The Epoch Times, OANN, and overseas media, plus freelancers and independents  —  The Federalist, the Epoch Times and One America News signed the Defense Department's press rules.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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]
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Canal+ takes a 34% stake in French cinema operator UGC, with the option to build a controlling stake in 2028, and says UGC's content library will expand its own  —  Canal has signed an agreement for a 34% stake in French cinema operator UGC, as the London-listed Euro giant announced plans for a secondary listing in South Africa.
Discussion: Reuters and The Hollywood Reporter
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Fast Company
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Apple is set to announce an exclusive US media rights deal with Formula One, paying $140M per year; F1 races average 1.4M viewers on ESPN  —  - Apple is about to announce a $140 million per year media rights deal with F1 for its U.S. rights, according to people familiar with the matter.
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants  —  OpenAI's CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios' characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users.
Steven J. Horowitz / Variety:
Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible” AI products and says it will build a generative AI research lab  —  In a significant step towards interfacing with AI and its impact on the music industry, Spotify has partnered …
 
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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
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
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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
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 46% say the news makes them feel informed often or extremely often, while 42% feel angry, 38% feel sad, and 27% feel scared with same frequency
Discussion: TheDesk.net
Annie Aguiar / Poynter:
Indiana University fired the adviser for The Indiana Daily Student, whose alums have won Pulitzers, showing how easily universities can seize student papers
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBC News cuts about 150 jobs, or about 2% of the NBC News Group's workforce, ahead of the spinoff of MSNBC and CNBC into Versant
 

 
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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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