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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
The White House now has conflicting approaches for AP journalists, restoring frontline access for AP photographers while continuing to exclude its reporters — The White House now has conflicting approaches for Associated Press journalists as it fights the news service in court over access to presidential events.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew: 57% of US adults ages 65+ prefer to watch their news, while among adults under 30, 45% prefer to get news by reading, 31% by watching, and 23% by listening — More Americans prefer to watch the news than read or listen to it By Emily Tomasik and Christopher St. Aubin The information environment …
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Bart Meijer / Reuters:
The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech — The EU Commission on Monday said it had unconditionally approved Omnicom Group's (OMC.N) $13.25 billion all-stock deal to buy rival Interpublic Group (IPG.N).
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Memo: Food52 explores a sale after years of revenue decline and months after laying off ~40% of its staff; it aims for $60M revenue in 2025 and is unprofitable — The food media publisher Food52 is exploring a sale, according to an internal email viewed by ADWEEK.
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Kantar Media appoints former WPP boss Mark Read as its chairman, after HIG Capital acquired the analytics company from Kantar Group in a $1.1B deal in August — Appointment to media analytics group follows its acquisition this year by HIG Capital — Former WPP boss Mark Read …
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Lynsey Chutel / New York Times:
The European Broadcasting Union says it is tightening Eurovision's voting rules to limit the influence of governments on the public poll that decides the winner — In this year's contest, a campaign by Israel to encourage voting for its entrant drew criticism.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: CNN quietly removed its stories from Apple News over the weekend, ending a contract to share content on the app; CNN and Apple are discussing a new deal — The Scoop — One of the biggest news publishers is pulling its content off of Apple News — for now.
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Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at local podcast network City Cast, which is in 13 US cities after shutting down in two, has a staff of ~90, and is focusing on being personality-driven — “We no longer begin with the idea that we're a local podcast network, even though that is the most familiar thing to most people.”
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Source: the BBC plans to expand its editorial standards committee, diluting conservative board member Robbie Gibb's influence, and create a deputy DG position — Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie Gibb
Maya Phillips / New York Times:
How Toy Story, released 30 years ago, changed animation, relying on 117 computers running rendering software 24/7, as modern animation now appears artificial — The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It's given us countless hits, but something has also been lost.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Universal's Wicked: For Good debuted with $150M in North America and $76M overseas in its opening weekend, the biggest global opening for a musical adaptation — Glinda and Elphaba remain “very very popular” at the box office. — “Wicked: For Good,” Universal's rendition of Act …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
President Trump says he “would not be happy” if the FCC lifted the broadcast ownership cap, contrasting FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's long-held position — President Trump said Sunday he “would not be happy” if the Federal Communications Commission lifted the national ownership cap …
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