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9:00 AM ET, June 12, 2025

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources and documents: Amazon Prime Video's ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024  —  More ads could mean lower CPMs, but performance could slip.  —  When Amazon introduced ads on Prime Video in January 2024 …
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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.
Glenn Garner / Deadline:
Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network  —  “For almost 28 years, I was a reporter and anchor for ABC News, and as you may have heard, I'm not there anymore,” he said in a video entitled ‘Independence Day’.
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.
Discussion: @pressgazette.co.uk
Prashant Rao / Semafor:
The CPJ directs a law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump EOs targeting American nonprofits  —  The Scoop  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists, the US-based press freedom charity, has directed a British law firm to set …
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 …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash  —  The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment …
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
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed  —  Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company, accusing it of copyright infringement …
 
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA ends the 300+ day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Daily Star drops its page three with pictures of scantily dressed women as part of a print and online redesign, with a new strapline “News with a wink”
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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
DoorDash acquires adtech company Symbiosys for $175M, as part of a major update to its ad business that now generates $1B+ annually
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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