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2:15 PM ET, March 19, 2025

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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A press freedom reporter at VOA recalls its last days, as dozens of staffers on J-1 visas may have to return to countries with a record of jailing critics  —  Covering the press freedom beat at VOA, I got a front-row seat to its demise.  —  On Saturday, about thirteen hundred Voice of America staffers …
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RFE/RL sues USAGM and its officials Kari Lake and Victor Morales, arguing they acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally in blocking funds allocated by Congress
Variety:
Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on his 25-year anniversary at Netflix, his cameo on Apple TV+ series The Studio, competing with suppliers like Disney, and more  —  In a few weeks, Ted Sarandos will make his acting debut — playing Ted Sarandos.  The co-CEO of Netflix is lampooning himself …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
David Novak, co-founder of Yum Brands, has been named chairman of the new company that will be formed by Comcast's NBCUniversal spinoff  —  Your Privacy Rights  —  PMC, its service providers, and third-party partners collect information about you and how you use our services …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Vice Media buys commercial and music video production studio London Alley, which will merge with Vice's Pulse to form Vice Commercials and Branded Entertainment  —  The Los Angeles-based production studio will merge with Vice-owned production company Pulse to create Vice Commercials and Branded Entertainment.
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in a case involving AI generated poetry, that the Copyright Act requires human authorship for registration  —  A computer scientist who tried to register an artwork that credited an artificial intelligence system as the sole author lost his appeal on Tuesday.
Lucy Knight / The Guardian:
Crowdfunding publisher Unbound goes into administration and has been acquired by newly-formed Boundless; some authors say they haven't been paid for months  —  The company, launched in 2011, has been acquired by new company Boundless, after writers have been left unpaid for months
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
ABC: print circulation of the UK's Daily Mirror fell 16.4% YoY in February 2025 to 196,150, dropping below 200,000 for the first time since the Edwardian era  —  The print circulation of the Daily Mirror dropped below 200,000 in February for the first time since the Edwardian era.
David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:
Around 20% of Chicago Sun-Times staff, or 30 employees, took buyouts and have resigned, including most of the editorial board; 5 WBEZ workers also took buyouts  —  Columnists, editorial writers and many more head for the exits as the paper's nonprofit owner, Chicago Public Media, deals with fiscal hardship.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Agentic Marketing Technologies, whose AI agent Lyra helps influencers book and run marketing campaigns, raised a $3.5M seed led by NFX  —  Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy.  For starters, influencers' approaches to marketing can be unconventional …
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time

Leo Schwartz / The Information:
White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution
 
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