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12:05 PM ET, April 16, 2025

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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
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 …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a court filing, the AP says the White House's new policy eliminating wire services' press pool access is a “clear violation” of the court's injunction  —  The Associated Press is asking a federal judge to enforce his order that the Trump White House had to end its ban …
Discussion: Reuters and New York Post
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 …
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.”
Discussion: Reuters
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 …
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 …
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
FOI documents: Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to YouTube that it would be exempt from a teen social media ban  —  Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to the global head of YouTube that the platform …
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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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
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