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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Australia passes its streaming content quotas law, which establishes local content spending requirements for global streamers with 1M+ Australian subscribers — Legislation requiring the likes of Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max to spend a portion of their local earnings on original Australian content …
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Karl Quinn / Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia's public broadcaster ABC will receive AU$50M over three years to spend on new content thanks to an amendment to the streaming quotas bill — The ABC will receive an extra $50 million over three years to spend on new Australian content including children's programs and drama thanks …
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Advanced Television, Billboard, TV Tonight, IF Magazine, Mumbrella, ABC, TV Blackbox, Australian Financial Review and Capital Brief
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
S&P Global Ratings puts Rothermere Continuation Holdings, The Daily Mail's parent company, on a credit watch over its effort to buy The Telegraph Media Group — S&P Global Ratings warns Lord Rothermere's RCHL could face credit downgrade as it seeks funding for £500m deal
Reuters Institute:
A survey of 1,004 UK journalists in 2024: 56% use AI professionally at least weekly, 62% view AI as a threat to journalism, only 15% as an opportunity, and more — This report is based on a survey conducted between August and November 2024 with a broadly representative sample of 1,004 UK journalists.
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Press Gazette
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Reach's Manchester Evening News launches a metered paywall and a £4.99/month digital subscription as Reach starts rolling out paywalls across its titles — Reach-owned Manchester Evening News has launched a paywall offering unlimited website access, premium content and less advertising for £4.99 per month.
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InPublishing, HoldtheFrontPage and Journalism.co.uk
The Hollywood Reporter:
Ryan Lizza claims Olivia Nuzzi regularly shared “opposition research” that she obtained from sources with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his 2024 presidential bid — The claim is the latest in a series of explosive allegations about the Vanity Fair West Coast editor and the Health …
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CNIL:
France's CNIL fines Condé Nast €750K because vanityfair.fr placed cookies on user devices without proper consent, following a December 2019 complaint — On 20 November 2025, the CNIL imposed a fine of 750,000 euros on the French company LES PUBLICATIONS CONDE NAST for failing …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Observer launches its first paywall, with digital subscriptions priced at £16 per month, and updates its masthead to a logo that echoes its earlier branding — The Observer has unveiled a series of new online features as it launched its first online paywall.
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Pat Maio / Daily News:
Eight more newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, sue OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they violated copyright by using their content to train AI models — Eight newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday, Nov. 26 against OpenAI and Microsoft …
Axios:
Omnicom's acquisition of Interpublic Group formally closes; the all-stock deal gives Omnicom shareholders 60.6% of the company and IPG shareholders 39.4% — Omnicom announced on Wednesday its long-awaited $13 billion acquisition of rival Interpublic Group (IPG) has finally closed, following regulatory approval in Europe.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump calls the NYT an “enemy of the people” and reporter Katie Rogers “ugly, both inside and out”, after an NYT report said Trump is showing “signs of fatigue” — As Americans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, President Donald Trump took …
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Alexi Duggins / The Guardian:
Production company Gaumont confirms Apple TV pulled French show The Hunt days before its debut after a journalist alleged it was plagiarized from a 1973 novel — French thriller starring Benoît Magimel has been accused of stealing its story from a 1976 action film
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