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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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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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Yusra Farzan / LAist:
The LAPD files an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction restricting the use of force against the press as it creates “impracticable standards” — With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever.
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
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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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Cumulus Media sues Nielsen, accusing it of anticompetitive moves by requiring the purchase of local radio ratings data in order to access its national analytics — U.S. radio network Cumulus Media has sued ratings giant Nielsen in federal court, accusing it of illegally leveraging its dominance …
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Peter Adams / Marketing Dive:
Amazon's Twitch begins testing livestream shopping ads that keep “viewers immersed” to discover and buy products “in real time”, starting with e.l.f. Cosmetics — A new integration powered by Amazon Ads' retail media data is meant to drive “more measurable business outcomes” for E.l.f. on the platform.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
India's JioStar reports gross revenue of $815M for the quarter ending September 30 and $149M profit after tax; JioHotstar averaged 400M monthly active users — JioStar, the Indian media giant formed from the merger of Disney's Star India and Reliance's Viacom18, reported record quarterly EBITDA …
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Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci was targeted in a bomb attack near Rome; Ranucci has been under police protection for years — Rudimentary but powerful device planted outside home of Report presenter Sigfrido Ranucci in Campo Ascolano
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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that the BBC's failure to disclose that a Gaza documentary was narrated by the son of a minister in the Hamas-run government was a “serious breach” — The BBC's use of the son of a Hamas official as a narrator for a Gaza documentary amounted to a “serious breach” of the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom has ruled.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Edison: Charlie Kirk's podcast, with his wife and others hosting, has surged in popularity, jumping 32 spots to enter the US top 20 podcasts for the first time — New data from Edison Research reveals that the conservative talk show continues to climb the charts — Welcome back to Soundbite.
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