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11:35 AM ET, February 28, 2025

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Jeff Bezos' opinion section changes contradict his October 2024 edict that WaPo won't endorse a presidential candidate because it can't be seen as taking a side  —  Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post's content, one of the world's richest …
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Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
Source: The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple wrote about the changes at its opinion section, but the piece was killed  —  Hello.  —  Welcome to a special edition of  —  Yesterday, at a hastily called meeting of the Opinions section of The Washington Post …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: in a tense meeting with journalists, Pentagon Press Secretary Sean Parnell said he'll end the travel pool and implied reporters “trash the warfighter”  —  Inside a tense off-the-record meeting, the Pentagon's new press chief confronted reporters and indicated they will do away …
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
The US political press has not dealt with autocrats working this hard to seize power; trading soft coverage for access could fail media audiences and democracy  —  WASHINGTON — We are not ready for this.  —  The Washington, D.C., press corps, used to playing small ball for small exclusives …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
GB New wins a landmark case against Ofcom after a judge finds a decision that GB News breached due impartiality rules with Jacob Rees-Mogg's show was unlawful  —  In a High Court ruling, a judge found that Ofcom was unlawful in determining that GB News breached broadcasting rules …
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Websites and apps for all 32 NFL teams had been collecting detailed consumer data without notice or opt-out choices; the NFL has updated policies to fix issues  —  Digital data, including information about consumers' precise movements and locations, was shared with ad-tech vendors
Discussion: Adweek, TVNewsCheck and The Hill
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Source: over 40 newsroom employees at the Los Angeles Times have taken buyout offers from owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, including roughly 17 reporters  —  “We should put out a missing flyer in search of the man who bought our paper and made promises about its future,” one employee tells TheWrap
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The last remaining member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, Carla Hall, says she is taking a buyout, ending her 32-year tenure at the paper
BBC:
The BBC apologizes and admits “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary on children in Gaza, after criticism that the narrator was a Hamas official's son  —  The BBC has apologised and admitted “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza.
New York Times:
Sources: at a Paramount board meeting this month, Shari Redstone said she was in favor of resolving President Trump's $20B lawsuit against CBS News  —  Consumer sentiment has turned south as high prices weigh on households.  Could that crimp big pieces of the president's economic agenda, including tariffs?
Mark K. Miller / TVNewsCheck:
Nexstar Q4: revenue up 14.1% YoY to $1.49B, ad revenue up 29.6% to $758M driven by election year political advertising, net income of $229M; NXST jumps 11.1%  —  That resulted in net Income of $229 million, adjusted EBITDA of $628 million, net cash provided by operating activities of $411 million …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok is preparing to shut down Creator Marketplace, which connects brands with creators, and replacing it with TikTok One, which includes AI tools, on April 1  —  TikTok is preparing to sunset its creator marketplace in favor of a new, more expanded experience, the company has informed businesses and creators via email.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
GB News reports revenue for the year to May 2024 up 132% YoY to £15.8M, losses down ~23% YoY to £33.4M, bringing total losses since its 2021 launch to £105.9M  —  GB News more than doubled its revenues in the past year to £15.8m but its total losses now top £100m.
Discussion: Financial Times
 
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