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12:10 PM ET, November 18, 2025

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
During an Air Force One gaggle, President Trump said “Quiet, quiet, piggy” to a female Bloomberg reporter when she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein emails  —  That came on Friday, when one female reporter attempted to ask the president about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC using a single incautious Panorama edit, after years of attacks by UK conservatives on the BBC  —  How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.  —  On Friday, reporters aboard Air Force One asked President Donald Trump about his intention to sue the BBC.
Ryan Lizza / Telos News:
Ryan Lizza discusses his relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, details her relationship with Keith Olbermann, and reveals her affair with politician Mark Sanford  —  Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that's what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
CPB agrees to fulfill a $36M, multi-year contract with NPR, resolving litigation filed by NPR accusing CPB of illegally yielding to Trump's demands  —  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
The UK CMA opens probes into StubHub, Viagogo, and others over allegedly deceptive online pricing practices; the UK plans to ban above face value ticket resales  —  CMA opens investigations into eight companies including ticketing websites StubHub and Viagogo
Riddhi Setty / Columbia Journalism Review:
The three-year strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ends after a Third Circuit court panel ruled the paper had acted in bad faith; the paper plans to appeal  —  Journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are ready to return to work.  —  After three years on strike, twenty-six employees …
Discussion: The NewsGuild and MediaPost
Patrick Brzeski / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney+ and CJ ENM's Tving partner to offer bundles that combine access to Disney+, Tving, and South Korean streamer Wavve at discounted rates in South Korea  —  The new collaboration — Disney's first with a local OTT service in Korea — follows the company's recent deal bringing TVING dramas to Disney+ in Japan.
Discussion: The Korea Times, TVREV, Variety and Deadline
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko steps down from the decentralized social network as part of its transition to a nonprofit structure governed by a board  —  Mastodon's creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival …
Megumi Fujikawa / Wall Street Journal:
A Japanese minister pledges to improve working conditions for creators, blaming low wages and grueling working conditions on “passion exploitation” of creators  —  Tokyo has set a target of $130 billion in annual overseas content sales by 2033  —  TOKYO—Japan's minister in charge …
 
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta launches a “content protection” tool to let creators detect and take action when their Reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram without permission
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Source: OANN fired Vish Burra, a producer of The Matt Gaetz Show, after he posted a cartoon that executives deemed “highly offensive” and “antisemitic”
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: UK ministers will begin the search for a new Ofcom chair this week; current chair Michael Grade's single term expires in April 2026
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump defends Tucker Carlson after his podcast interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, saying Carlson has the freedom to choose his interviewees
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
A look at MSNBC's rebrand as MS Now, as it builds an independent newsroom, hiring 36+ reporters, aiming to maintain its liberal opinion and news analysis
Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Sinclair built an ~8% stake in E.W. Scripps and is vying to acquire the local TV broadcaster; Scripps has a market value of ~$270M and Sinclair $1.1B
 

 
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Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation

Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever

Wired:
Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer
 
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