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4:40 AM ET, October 20, 2025

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New York Times:
Sources: Bari Weiss has taken a hands-on approach in her first days at CBS, helping book big guests and urging executives to find leakers in the newsroom  —  Ms. Weiss, an unusual leader for a broadcast news division, has floated ideas for live events and asked journalists why they are seen as biased.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: Paramount Skydance plans to begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, cutting around 2,000 US jobs as part of its $2B cost-cutting initiative  —  Paramount Skydance employees are facing a broad across-the-board culling under David Ellison's new management regime the week of Oct. 27, Variety has confirmed.
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS  —  It comes in response to creators' complaints about the reach of posts containing links.  —  Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement.
Richard Gingras / On the Evolution of Media:
Protecting press freedom is a responsibility journalists must shoulder themselves, as history shows courts, philanthropy, and policy won't save journalism  —  The following introductory remarks were given at the recent Newsgeist Unconference hosted by the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation.
Lauren Hilgers / The Guardian:
A profile of Wang Jian, a journalist who moved to the US in 2018 due to increasing press restrictions in Hong Kong and has built a news operation on YouTube  —  Once a stalwart of Hong Kong's journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more  —  As one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia helps define our common understanding of just about everything.
Corbin Bolies / Yahoo News:
A look at the TV journalists who left corporate jobs and built businesses that enabled them to hire dozens of people, using Substack, YouTube, Beehiiv, and more  —  Journalists who built their careers in television are finding comparable levels of success, letting them scale themselves up outside of their former corporate confines
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.
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 …
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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Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies
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
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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”
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 Guardian:
Trump files a 40-page amended $15B defamation complaint against the NYT and others, after a judge initially dismissed it on Sept. 19 due to its excessive length
 

 
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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

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact
 
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