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1:15 PM ET, May 16, 2025

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Washington Post:
More than 500 Voice of America contractors are expected to lose their jobs by June 30; Kari Lake says 584 total employees were terminated across USAGM  —  More than 500 of the news service's contractors could be out of a job on June 30.  —  More than 500 Voice of America contractors …
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Jordyn Holman / New York Times:
Q&A with PBS' Paula Kerger on why it's hard for PBS to plug budgetary gaps created by the loss of federal funding, its importance as a creative incubator, more  —  Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster's funding.
Kelly Kasulis Cho / Washington Post:
A profile of Ulviyya Ali, a VOA journalist in Azerbaijan until February, who has been jailed, like others in the country, on charges of currency smuggling
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Spotify adjusts its “plays” metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays  —  Spotify announced last week that it would roll out public play counts on all podcasts as a way of “helping attract new fans.”
Reuters:
Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing Cox at $34.5B including debt and uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband operators  —  Broadband and cable TV provider Charter (CHTR.O) is in advanced talks to combine with Cox Communications in a deal that values Cox …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
C-SPAN plans to debut Ceasefire, its first new weekly show in 20 years in the fall, envisioned as conversations between lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle  —  “Ceasefire” will be the low-key public affairs channel's first new weekly show in two decades.  The question is whether Republicans and Democrats will show up.
Variety:
A look at the pay packages of some top media and entertainment executives in 2024; seven of the 10 examined executives got raises despite lackluster earnings  —  Top execs kept raking in the bucks last year, even as many of the companies they led struggled to stay aloft
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Filing: advertisers ask a US judge to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing them of boycotting the company, arguing X failed to show that they acted with any common plan  —  Major companies that curtailed advertising on Elon Musk's social media platform X over concerns about its ability …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook and Instagram face “an epidemic of scams” driven by crime networks; internal docs from 2022 say 70% of newly active Meta advertisers promote scams  —  Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks …
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Roberto Ferdman / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Maine-base Civic Sunlight, which sends newsletters with AI-generated summaries of city council meetings and has partnered with local legacy news orgs  —  Twists and turns for a surprisingly well-received experiment in Maine.  —  When Tom Cochran and David Mortlock started kicking around ideas …
Columbia Journalism Review:
How publishers are navigating their relationship with platforms amid generative AI's rise, based on interviews with 34 news and tech industry representatives  —  This research is generously funded by the Tow Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  —  Introduction
Discussion: LinkedIn and Digiday
 
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