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Ali Lyon / City A.M.:
Axel Springer says it received approval from the UK Department for Culture, Media, and Sport to proceed with its £575M deal to acquire the Telegraph Media Group — The years-long saga over the Daily Telegraph's ownership is poised to reach a conclusion, after the government announced …
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The Wrap, Press Gazette, Financial Times, Telegraph, The Standard, Politico, RTÉ, The Independent, @bron_maher and Axel Springer SE
Caroline Davies / The Guardian:
Gary Neville's soccer media group The Overlap acquires Mark Goldbridge's The United Stand and That's Football YouTube channels, a source says for seven figures — Exclusive: Neville has criticised “those bloody YouTubers” - but The Overlap has now acquired channels with 3.7m subscribers for seven-figure sum
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The Sun, Mirror, BBC, The Athletic, RTÉ, City A.M., @mikekeegan_dm, @footiewriter, Elliot Renton on LinkedIn, Daily Mail, Broadcast, Global and GB News
Leo Marchandon / Reuters:
Publicis reports Q1 net revenue organic growth of 4.5% YoY, meeting company-provided consensus, and reaffirms its FY 2026 net organic growth outlook of 4% to 5% — Publicis (PUBP.PA) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net revenue organic growth of 4.5%, meeting company-provided consensus …
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Ad Age, Adweek, campaignlive.com, Publicis Groupe, The Drum, PR Week UK, BMI, Adweek and Wall Street Journal
The Wrap:
Sources: Ted Sarandos met with several heads of exhibition at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and discussed the possibility of putting more Netflix films into theaters — The co-CEO's pursuit of Warner Bros. seems to have marked a change of heart — Ted Sarandos might be changing his tune when it comes to theatrical exhibition.
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@mrericmartin, Screen, New York Times and Deadline
Ted Alcorn / @tedalcorn:
[Thread] A dashboard shows the past 25+ years of NYT coverage, across 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, and 26K reporters; Israel-Gaza dominates international coverage — I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world's preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. https://tedalcorn.github.io/ nyt/
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A CNTI survey of 43 US “indie info providers” finds only five can fully fund their lifestyle via content creation, while over 50% can't fund it at all — “Journalism isn't immune to the larger trend of the gig-ification of labor.” — There isn't yet a clear playbook …
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Center for News …, @tongli.bsky.social and @dankennedy.net
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Nikita Bier: X cut payouts to 60% for aggregators “flooding the timeline” with clickbait, with another 20% cut planned, targeting habitual “BREAKING” posters — X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation …
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@nikitabier, @patrickwebb, @zguz, @sawyermerritt, @petergyang, @stevesi, @dom_lucre, @mrandyngo, @sentdefender, @mazemoore, @theriffy, @joeymannarino, @roeymiterany, @mylordbebo, @angelabelcamino, @warclandestine, @realcandaceo, @simonowens.bsky.social, Social Media Today, MediaPost, Techpoint Africa, The Guardian and Condia
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA — As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive's vast collection of web pages.
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Media Nation, Tom's Hardware, Forbes, Fortune, Kate Knibbs on LinkedIn, Rebecca MacKinnon on LinkedIn, The Overspill, William Garrity on LinkedIn, Politico, @evangreer.bsky.social, @fightforthefuture.org, @stinasdemons.com, @kottke.org, @wired.com, @knibbs.bsky.social, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac and Pixel Envy, more at Techmeme »
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen releases its February Gauge reports after a delay over a methodology dispute; NBCUniversal-Versant dethroned YouTube for the largest TV viewing share — A dispute over methodology changes pushed the release of February's summary back several weeks.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Cord Cutters News, Nielsen and Media Play News
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Internal memo: CNN hires Chris Wiggins, who was chief data scientist at the NYT for more than a decade, for a newly created role as head of ML and AI science — CNN has tapped Chris Wiggins, who has served as chief data scientist at the New York Times for more than a decade …
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Kendell Timmers on LinkedIn
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: CBS News EIC Bari Weiss and President Tom Cibrowski are at odds over the network's direction; source: Weiss tried to hire Noah Oppenheim, who declined — CBS News' viewership is at an all-time low as editor in chief Bari Weiss and the network's president Tom Cibrowski …
TMZ.com:
TMZ officially launches its Washington, DC operations, dubbed TMZDC, with a three-person production team of Charlie Cotton, Jacob Wasserman, and Jakson Buhaj — TMZ DC HEY EVERYONE, WE'RE HERE!!! … Our TMZ DC staff is now ensconced in Washington, D.C. and open for business!
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The Hill, Nieman Lab, @tmz, Newsweek, @mikeisaac, @reporteroriana, @tmz, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, Washingtonian and @faduda.bsky.social
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Bryan Cranston, Joaquin Phoenix, and 1,000+ writers, actors, and directors sign a letter opposing Paramount's WBD bid, warning it cuts jobs and audience choice — The letter warns that the deal will result in fewer jobs for creatives, along with higher costs and less choice for audiences.
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The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, DDF, Variety, The Streamable, Axios, The Wrap, UPI, RTÉ, Benzinga, Mediaweek, Future Film Coalition, @benmullin, New York Post, Telegraph, Gizmodo, Deseret News, The A.V. Club, LAmag, Media Play News, Cord Cutters News, Washington Examiner, Reuters, TVBEurope, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, IndieWire, @dave1agar.bsky.social, Associated Press, NBC News, The Hill, Bloomberg, Advanced Television and The Contrarian
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