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3:35 PM ET, November 5, 2025

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
NYT reports 12.33M subscribers in Q3 after adding 460K digital subs, total revenue up 9.5% YoY to $700.8M, and adjusted operating profit up 26.1% YoY to $131.4M  —  The Times now has 12.33 million total subscribers to all of its products.  It has said it is aiming for 15 million by the end of 2027.
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Letter: the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist over Instagram's use of “PG-13” for teen content restrictions, calling it “literally false and highly misleading”  —  Meta says it never claimed or implied that its teen accounts were officially PG-13 rated or certified by MPA
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix rolls out a new ad metric called monthly active viewers, or MAV, and says it has 190M such viewers across the 12 countries where it offers an ad tier  —  The streamer is rolling out a stat it calls monthly active viewers.  —  Netflix is rolling out a new advertising metric …
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others  —  “You shouldn't have put your content on the internet if you didn't want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl's executive director says.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Source: the BBC made changes to content and editorial oversight at its BBC Arabic network amid an internal debate about “anti-Israel bias”  —  Deadline understands that BBC News chiefs overhauled BBC Arabic's online Press Review item — which collates media reporting from the Middle East …
The Intercept:
YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with the US State Department's sanctions  —  A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel's genocide in Gaza.  A video investigation uncovering Israel's role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The UK's College of Policing proposes new rules to end years of police secrecy and suspicion in their dealings with journalists following the Leveson Inquiry  —  New guidance allows off-the-record briefings and encourages police openness.  —  The College of Policing has put forward proposals aimed …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount signs a deal with Professional Bull Riders to make Paramount+ the primary streamer for the PBR Unleash the Beast tour, after a similar deal with UFC  —  Paramount and TKO Group's Professional Bull Riders set a new five-year media rights agreement that will make Paramount …
 
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Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger:
IAB announces a tool that lets device manufacturers confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices; Google, Apple, and Amazon have signed on
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Clare Armstrong / ABC:
Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Vox Media's board has discussed spinning off its podcast network due to active interest; Penske may be interested in Vox's digital publishing assets
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: the 60 Minutes interview with Trump on November 2 drew 13.2M viewers, according to early Nielsen data, the highest-rated episode since January 2021
Simon Goodley / The Guardian:
Sources: some Telegraph directors alerted the UK government that RedBird's Gerry Cardinale may have breached rules protecting the paper's editorial independence
 

 
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed

Bloomberg:
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content
 
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