Mediagazer: Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official (Dan Friedman/Mother Jones)

12:20 PM ET, December 11, 2025

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:

Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official — Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. — Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.”

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Mirror Editor-in-Chief Caroline Waterston steps down after less than two years, to be succeeded by Chloe Hubbard, currently UK editor at The Independent — Mirror editor-in-chief Caroline Waterston is stepping down at the end of the year after less than two years in the job.

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Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli / Financial Times:

Journalists at Italian newspaper La Stampa go on strike to protest against a potential sale of its parent company Gedi to Greek media organization Antenna — Exor in talks to sell owner of newspapers including La Repubblica to Greek bidder — Journalists at Italian newspaper La Stampa …

Yael Krifcher / Committee to Protect Journalists:

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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:

UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines — A UK-based sports website publisher has cut 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic.

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M — Pinterest has agreed to acquire tvScientific, a connected television (CTV) advertising platform that automates and optimizes ad buying for marketers, executives told Axios.

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David Bauder / Associated Press:

The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was “seditious” — The New York Times, attacked by President Donald Trump for reporting about his physical condition, said on Wednesday …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid — Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on participating publications' Google News pages as part of a new pilot program, the search giant announced on Wednesday.

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize “top stories” in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions

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