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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones — Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
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Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content — The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing …
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Tubi announces plans to distribute 20+ films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund — Tubi is partnering with Kickstarter to distribute more than 20 crowdfunded films. … Today, Tubi (which is owned by Fox) …
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks — Several sources told Deadline that four senior journalists have lodged separate, but coordinated, age discrimination complaints after being shown the door.
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Ricardo Brito / Reuters:
Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines — Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that social media companies must be held accountable for some types of content published …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CNN is expanding its podcast business by rebranding CNN Audio to CNN Podcasts and plans to introduce new talent and formats, including more video podcasts — The news network is rebranding CNN Audio as CNN Podcasts, as it develops new formats and shifts attention to new talent.
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Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
TollBit: traffic from RAG bots, which scrape information in real time, to 266 websites, half of which are from news outlets, grew 49% from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025 — As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. — People are replacing Google search …
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders — Three employees at Voice of America's fact-checking unit fled Putin's wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump's orders.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein's rape charge retrial ends in a mistrial after the jury foreperson refused to return to the jury room due to threats from other jurors — “I feel afraid inside there. I can't be inside there,” the jury foreperson said Thursday. … The 12-person jury in Weinstein's trial …
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Pinterest and affiliate shopping platform LTK announce a pilot program in which high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest — High-performing posts from shopping platform LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest.
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) must face a lawsuit by independent authors accusing the e-commerce giant of monopolizing the retail market for audiobooks …
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Small-town newspapers are shutting down due to the lack of a succession plan, not financial issues, in nearly a dozen US states, a growing problem — And it's not just about the money. — For more than a century, the McClusky Gazette has reported the news in a small town in the middle of North Dakota.
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