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1:40 PM ET, November 12, 2025

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Bloomberg:
Ireland's media regulator launches its first formal investigation under the EU DSA, probing X for allegedly failing to remove illegal content reported by users  —  Ireland's media regulator has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X, saying that the company is failing to remove content users report as illegal.
Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair announces new hires, including Ta-Nehisi Coates as senior staff writer and Adrienne Green as executive editor, plus new contributing editors  —  Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adrienne Green, José Criales-Unzueta, Marisa Meltzer, and more join the magazine
Discussion: @vanityfair.com and Daily Mail
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Kamal Ahmed, who previously hosted The Telegraph's The Daily T podcast, leaves to join Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe  —  Kamal Ahmed is leaving The Telegraph to join business publisher Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe.
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Disney Asia Pacific president Luke Kang says the company aims to add more live sports to Disney+ and gradually roll out ESPN across Asia  —  Walt Disney Co. is seeking to bring its ESPN sports brand to Asia, stepping up efforts to expand in one of the world's fastest-growing streaming markets.
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is preparing to probe Google over news publisher rankings in search over claims that Google demotes sites with “third party” promotional content  —  Brussels set to announce new probe under Digital Markets Act despite Trump threats on tariffs
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
UK's TalkTV says it has fired presenter Mike Graham after he failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post on his Facebook account  —  Broadcaster suspended presenter last month over Facebook post he said happened after account was hacked  —  The presenter Mike Graham …
Discussion: The Independent and Daily Star
Ian Youngs / BBC:
UK PM Keir Starmer says he supports “a strong and independent BBC” but it must get its “house in order” as some people “would rather the BBC didn't exist”  —  The prime minister has said the BBC must “get their house in order” when mistakes are made …
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
AI startup Kartel names longtime TV exec Kevin Reilly as CEO; earlier in 2025, Kartel released a sizzle reel with an AI-generated Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and others  —  The longtime TV exec, with successful turns at NBC, Fox and Turner, is becoming CEO of the Beverly Hills-based company.
Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, Deadline and Axios
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tubi announces its first slate of creator-led shows, including with YouTuber Joey Graceffa, as it seeks to expand emerging talent's access to Hollywood  —  Tubi, Fox Corp.'s free ad-supported streaming service, announced its first slate of exclusive digital-first creator series from Joey Graceffa …
Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Studios appoints Alice Taylor, who previously led Disney's StudioLAB, as the head of its new AI Creative Lab to ensure “ethical, editorially sound” output  —  At a time when fear is heightened around AI's impact on the industry, Taylor will ensure the BBC AI Creative Lab's output is …
Discussion: Deadline
 
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Montreal-based music and video distributor Stingray Group is acquiring TuneIn for up to $175M, in a deal expected to close by the end of 2025
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Adam Chitwood / The Wrap:
Study: among the top 100 Spotify podcasts in the US in 2024, 64% were hosted by men, 77% of hosts were white, and 62.6% of 4K+ episodes had no woman guests
Anna Kaminski / Kansas Reflector:
The US county involved in the 2023 raid of the Marion County Record in Kansas agrees to pay a cumulative $3M to three journalists and a city councilor
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Puck: Disney offered YouTube the same rates as major distributors, at least for ESPN, but YouTube wants to pay less; Disney is losing $30M/week without YouTube
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump threatens to sue the BBC over the Panorama edit, seeking “no less than $1B in damages” if he does not get a full retraction and an apology
 

 
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Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down

Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions
 
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