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8:05 AM ET, May 22, 2025

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Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
Several women attest to Pulitzer winner and author Wesley Lowery's pattern of predatory behavior toward young women in journalism between 2018 and 2024  —  Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker.  Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
AI videos from Google's Veo 3, which features synchronized audio as well as crisper, more detailed video, are both impressive and terrifying  —  If the internet wasn't already full of misinformation and general filler content, Veo 3 is going to take it to an entirely new level.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as “integrated into” them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US
CNBC:
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, alongside a new AI filmmaking tool Flow and expanded access to Lyria 2
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBCUniversal made an offer to take over MLB rights after ESPN opted out of continuing its contract, but is offering far less than ESPN currently pays  —  Comcast's NBCUniversal has made an offer to Major League Baseball to take over the package of regular-season and postseason games …
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
Austin-based CTV ad platform MNTN raises $187M in its IPO, selling 11.7M shares at $16 each, the top of its $14 to $16 range, and giving it a ~$1.24B market cap  —  The Austin-based company — that counts Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds as its chief creative officer — and the selling shareholders …
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic asked The View hosts to tone down their political rhetoric, particularly about Trump  —  COOL IT  —  Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.
Wall Street Journal:
An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US sports TV rights deals since 2023  —  Media companies are seeing financial bright spots in their streaming businesses, but navigating the options is still tough for consumers
Ashley Spencer / New York Times:
How Disney's Lilo & Stitch, released in 2002, became one of its most merchandised characters, rivalling Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse, ahead of a new movie  —  Step aside, Moana, Elsa and Simba.  In recent years, Stitch has quietly become one of Disney's most popular — and most merchandised — characters.
Discussion: The Movie Blog
Richard Headland / Press Gazette:
The Economist details its new engagement model, assigning different weightings to content types like narrated articles and podcasts, to reduce subscriber churn  —  The Economist has rolled out a new content engagement model designed to build habits and improve retention among its 1.2 million global subscriber base.
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
Ampere: sports made up 12% of newly commissioned TV docs in Q2, up from 3% in Q1 2019, as the number of first-run unscripted shows rose from <600 to ~1.3K  —  Customers love them, but streamers are getting choosier in what they say yes to.  —  Last season the Boston Red Sox were the picture …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Live Nation, which is facing a US DOJ antitrust probe, adds Trump ally and the newly installed President of the Kennedy Center Richard Grenell to its board  —  Amid an antitrust battle with the Justice Department, global entertainment company Live Nation is adding one of President Trump's closest advisors to its board of directors.
 
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
DirecTV and Tribeca Festival partner to launch a streaming hub for films, festival talks, and behind-the-scenes content as one of DirecTV's FAST channels
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The Wrap:
Atlas sues Comscore for allegedly leveraging its monopoly on box office data to “suppress competition” and forcing Atlas to shut down its CinemaCloudWorks app
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of Tony Reali as Around the Horn, the ESPN show that he hosts and which showcases sportswriters, draws to an end on May 23
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
The Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a supplement featuring an AI-generated guide to summer books that do not exist
 

 
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow takes credit; Elliptic: the hackers stole and “burned” $90M+

Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
A look at the tech industry's lack of consensus on what AGI or ASI is, whether LLMs are the best path, and what the tech might look like if or when it arrives
 
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