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11:55 AM ET, June 10, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down ~50% in three years  —  Chatbots are replacing Google's traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers  —  The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers.
Washington Post:
CPJ says police have assaulted “more than 20” journalists, including by less-lethal projectiles, since LA protests began on June 6, echoing the 2020 US protests  —  Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement.  Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism.
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Internal memo: Paramount Global is cutting its US-based staff by 3.5% and may also reduce its workforce outside of the US over time  —  Paramount Global is cutting its U.S.-based staff by 3.5%, the latest round of layoffs at the media company as it contends with the decline of the traditional pay-TV bundle and macroeconomic headwinds.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros Discovery plans to launch HBO Max in 12 countries in July, mostly in Europe and some in Asia, bringing it to around 90 territories in total  —  Europe has been the fastest-growing international region for the streaming service, which is getting ready to accelerate its global growth strategy with the latest market debuts.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
CPB CEO Patricia Harrison says three board members that President Trump tried to fire in April remain directors, after a US judge recognizes CPB's independence  —  Correction: A previous version of this article gave incorrect names of the fired CPB board members.  They are Laura Ross, Diane Kaplan and Thomas Rothman.
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife  —  Florida's child welfare agency sent a letter to a Florida newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families …
Variety:
SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes  —  The video game actors' strike may soon come to an end.  —  The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists …
Bloomberg:
Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023  —  The company, a unit of WeChat-operator Tencent Holdings Ltd., will issue shares to its founders and other backers to help fund the acquisition, it said in a statement.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MLB acquires a minority stake in Jomboy Media and partners with the baseball-centered media company to collaborate on content activations, IP growth, and more  —  Jimmy “Jomboy” O'Brien has made it to the big leagues.  —  O'Brien's Jomboy Media has inked a strategic pact with Major League Baseball …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay a floor of $8.61B  —  Disney agreed to buy Comcast's 33 percent stake in Hulu in 2023, after an extended appraisal process, the deal is finally set to close.
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025  —  User-generated material to surpass advertising income from professional media amid change in viewing habits
 
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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Roblox hires Paramount's Naveen Chopra as its new CFO, effective June 30; Chopra previously held senior roles at Amazon and served as CFO at Pandora and TiVo
Washington Post:
WaPo names Sam Han as its first Chief AI Officer and unveils WP Incubator, modeled after Silicon Valley incubators to develop new products and business lines
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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
The US Senate passes the GENIUS Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House

CNN:
President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension

Steve Kopack / NBC News:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company expects that in the next few years AI “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains”
 
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