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7:00 AM ET, June 15, 2025

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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Sources: USAGM told employees of VOA's Persian-language service who were placed on administrative leave to return to their roles amid the Iran-Israel conflict  —  President Donald Trump ordered the service to shut down in March.  —  Employees of Voice of America's Persian-language service …
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Liam Scott / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years  —  61,989.  —  That's how many social media posts by President Donald Trump over the past decade that journalist Stephanie Sugars has single-handedly reviewed.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Mediahuis Ireland, which owns the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Independent, and others, says it has 100K+ digital subscribers after launching paywalls in 2020  —  Mediahuis Ireland has crossed the 100,000 digital subscriber mark, just over five years after first launching its paywalls.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Byron Allen settles with McDonald's over his $10B 2021 lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of racial stereotyping in its ads budget; terms were not disclosed  —  McDonald's (MCD.N) has settled a $10 billion lawsuit by the media entrepreneur Byron Allen accusing the fast-food chain of …
CNBC:
The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show  —  The WNBA and E.W. Scripps announced on Friday a new, multi-year media rights agreement to carry Friday night WNBA matchups on Ion.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Take-Two, NBA, and National Basketball Players Association expand their partnership to launch NBA Take-Two Media, producing original content, live events, more  —  The video game publisher of the NBA 2K franchise will partner with the league on original content and competitive gaming via its new banner …
Graham Kates / CBS News:
A US appeals court denies Trump's request for a rehearing in writer E. Jean Carroll's case, in which he was found liable in 2023 for sexual abuse and defamation  —  President Trump on Friday lost his latest effort to get a retrial in the case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vox Media Union says it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Vox Media, averting a strike  —  The Vox Media Union covers editorial staff at Vox.com, The Verge, Eater, SB Nation, Pop Sugar, Thrillist, Vox Media Podcast Network and The Dodo.  —  An overwhelming 90% of the members …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3  —  It apparently took just days to make using Google's new text-to-video generator, Veo 3.
 
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Google sues Brazilian airline LATAM in the US, seeking a declaration that Brazilian courts can't force Google to take down a YouTube video outside Brazil
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Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
With Google, Meta, and Amazon developing AI tools for ad campaigns, agencies are under threat, but large brands may still rely on agencies for unique concepts
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The US House votes 214-212 to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for public broadcasting for the next two fiscal years; the bill now heads to the Senate
New York Times:
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein's rape charge ends in a mistrial but he was found guilty of one count of a criminal sexual act and innocent of another in the NY retrial
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
 

 
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Artificial Analysis benchmarks: Grok 4 is now the leading AI model, a first for xAI; Grok 4's per-token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro's and o3's

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 first consults Musk's views, but only when the word “you” is used

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning M5 MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, a new Mac external monitor, new low-end iPads and M4 iPad Airs, and an iPhone 17e for H1 2026
 
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