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The White House is eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a court ordered the administration to lift its restrictions on the AP — The White House announced Tuesday that it was eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a federal court ordered …
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James Oliphant / Reuters:
The White House's decision to remove a spot for newswires from the press pool will affect local news organizations who rely on the wire services for reporting — Wire services including Reuters and Bloomberg News will no longer hold a permanent slot in the small pool of reporters …
April Rubin / Axios:
An Associated Press reporter was allowed into a White House event for the first time since the Trump administration banned AP's journalists
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Spotify is down in the US, Europe, and more; users reported issues from 8:00AM ET, and Spotify says it is “aware of the outage” and it is not “a security hack” — Spotify is aware of the issues and is ‘checking them out.’ — Spotify is down according …
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Matt Slater / New York Times:
France's Ligue 1 is facing a financial crisis after talks broke down between its clubs and DAZN over the renegotiation of the four-year TV deal signed in 2024 — French football is facing a financial crisis after peace talks between its clubs and DAZN, their domestic media partner, broke down on Tuesday.
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
IAB: 60% of US ad executives expect tariffs to result in a 6% to 10% cut in 2025 ad budgets; industry insiders say advertisers are “paralyzed” and “somber” — Hundreds of billions of marketing dollars are in flux as companies struggle to plan. For some sectors, the timing “couldn't be worse.”
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Cision, which owns PR Newswire, plans to close its journalism jobs service on April 30, and sold its Help A Reporter Out expert enquiry service to Featured.com — Cision Jobs website to close on 30 April. Separately, Help A Reporter Out (HARO) to relaunch under new owner on 22 April.
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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google says it suspended 39.2M US advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024, up over 3x from 12.7M in 2023, and took down 1.8B ads, aided by new AI tools — Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number …
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a Community Notes-like feature to add “more context” to videos, in the US; TikTok says its fact-checking program will continue — But the company isn't walking away from fact checking. — As TikTok continues to wait for a deal that will secure …
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Palin v. NYT opening statements: Sarah Palin's lawyers say the NYT engaged in a “sickeningly familiar pattern” by targeting her, and she will testify next week — Sarah Palin's 8-year-old defamation claims against The New York Times were being heard anew Tuesday by a Manhattan jury …
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Houston Landing, a nonprofit that launched in 2023 with $20M+ in philanthropic funding, says it is shutting down mid-May and laying off its 43 employees — The nonprofit startup struggled to identify a business model, an editorial strategy, and a large audience.
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Patreon plans to test livestreaming within its mobile app and on the web with select users this week ahead of a wider rollout in summer 2025 — Patreon is finally experimenting with a native livestreaming, a new feature that could attract more creators and help them earn more money.
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Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
UK filing: in 2023, following Elon Musk's acquisition, X had £69.1M in UK revenue, down 66.3% YoY, and its profit fell from £5.6M to £1.2M — Social media platform formerly known as Twitter says 66.3% revenue drop was down to fall in advertising income
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