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4:50 PM ET, June 4, 2025

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Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Two FCC commissioners announce that they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid reviews of the Paramount-Skydance merger  —  Two members of the Federal Communications Commission announced they'll depart this week, leaving the agency with three vacancies …
Discussion: Deadline, @lucas_shaw and Techdirt
Barbara Tasch / BBC:
The BBC rejects a White House claim that it took down a Gaza story, after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the BBC of taking “the word of Hamas”  —  The BBC has rejected incorrect White House criticism of its Gaza coverage, describing a claim that it had taken down a story as “completely wrong”.
Attila Mong / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats  —  What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, BBC and TheJournal.ie
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Russell Simmons sues HBO and the directors of On the Record for $20M, alleging they defamed him in their documentary on sexual assault allegations against him  —  Russell Simmons is suing HBO and the filmmakers behind the “On the Record” documentary for $20 million, alleging they defamed …
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
AMC Entertainment has reached an agreement with National CineMedia to run ads right before the start of a film, starting July 1  —  Starting July 1, AMC theaters will feature a “platinum spot” that's shown on screens right before the start of a film.  The theater chain, which has struggled financially …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000  —  Tech company has talked with Disney and A24 about exclusive content for a premium VR device  —  Meta Platforms is courting Hollywood …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The Nevada Legislature rejects a proposal to create a $95M annual tax credit for the Sony- and WBD-backed Summerlin Studios project in Las Vegas  —  A proposal to build a movie studio in Las Vegas died in the Nevada Legislature on Monday night, as lawmakers refused to grant a $95 million annual subsidy.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: WaPo is working on an initiative to publish opinion articles from other US papers, writers on Substack, and eventually nonprofessional writers  —  A new program, known internally as Ripple, would open The Post to journalists at other publications and influential writers on Substack.
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its AI tech to generate marketing images and pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway  —  The ‘Mad Men’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ producer is the latest Hollywood company to sign a pact with the generative AI firm.
 
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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
Simon Owens / The Long Story with Simon Owens:
How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
A look at the roles affected by cuts of 100+ at Business Insider, which has lost half its traffic over five years and shifted away from being traffic-focused
Théophane Hartmann Euractiv / Euractiv:
TikTok bans the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Google Discover adds AI-generated bullet points to some news articles that tease or summarize the content
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Over 59% of WBD shareholders reject David Zaslav's pay package in a symbolic vote; Netflix and Disney shareholders did the same in 2023 and 2018, respectively
NPR:
Trump formally asks Congress to take back the $1.1B set aside for public broadcasters for the next two years; Congress has 45 days to approve the request
John Koblin / New York Times:
Sony says new episodes of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune will be available on Hulu and Peacock the day after they broadcast on TV, starting in September
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TechCrunch quietly shut down its Europe operations; one former senior reporter says new owner Regent thought “international startup coverage wasn't essential”
 

 
From Techmeme:

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, which would value the company at almost $1.77T

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal:
Alphabet upsized its equity raise to $84.75B, including $35B in underwritten public offerings, up from a planned $30B; a source says it contacted ~75 investors

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory
 
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