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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
NYT files a second lawsuit against the DOD, alleging a March mandate requiring official escorts for journalists at the Pentagon violates the First Amendment — The Times is challenging a new requirement that reporters covering the military complex have an official escort …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Politico, Poynter, @fpwellman, @hansmahncke, @freedomofpress, @macfarlanenews, @meghannmyers_, Raw Story, @johnkonrad, @seanparnellasw, Wall Street Journal, @alexbruell, @joshgerstein, @nielslesniewski, Deadline, @danlamothe, @ktoropin, @scottnover, @kylegriffin1, CBS News, NewsMax.com, The Wrap, Courthouse News Service, Associated Press, Bloomberg Law, The Guardian and Mediaite
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Memo: NPR is restructuring its newsroom and offers buyouts to ~300 staffers, mostly in newsgathering desks, expecting to earn $15M less in station fees in 2026 — NPR is restructuring its newsroom, including cutting some reporting and editing jobs, as it attempts to keep pace …
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Rebuild Local News and Syracuse University are launching the Local News Research Hub, a curated, searchable database for data-driven research on local news — The Local News Research Hub aims to make academic research more accessible to audiences including policymakers, funders, and journalists.
Discussion:
Joshua Darr on LinkedIn, Lisa H. Macpherson on LinkedIn and @tongli.bsky.social
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: Amazon restructured its Associates program, including slashing commissions rates by as much as 50% and cutting bonuses for high-performing publishers — Publishers are scrambling to reorient their commerce businesses after the tech giant also gut reporting tools
Discussion:
@markstenberg3
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Channel 4 removes all episodes of Married at First Sight UK after three former contestants alleged rape and non-consensual sex acts occurred during the filming — Former contestants claim there was not enough protection for cast during making of Channel 4 show
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Reuters, The Hollywood Reporter, BBC, Associated Press, Us Weekly, The Sun, Channel 4, Deadline, Sky News, Mirror, HuffPost, E! Online, Just Jared, TMZ.com, Radio Times, TV Blackbox, The Tab, GB News, Daily Star, HELLO!, TechRadar and Reality Tea
Nadia Khomami / The Guardian:
Canal+ says it will no longer work with 600+ cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the influence of its right-wing owner Vincent Bolloré — Canal+ head says he will not work with hundreds of actors and directors who signed protest against Vincent Bolloré's political sway
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Economist is testing parallel versions of marketing and B2B sales content, one optimized for humans and another clearly structured, Q&A-style for AI agents — The Economist is testing new ways of structuring content to be read solely by agents as AI engines increasingly surface and summarize news.
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Sources: Paramount held informal talks about Bari Weiss ceding day-to-day control of Evening News, CBS Mornings, and 60 Minutes to a more experienced executive — As it closes in on its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount leadership has had informal discussions …
Liz Skalka / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the WHCA's efforts to maintain diplomacy with President Trump, as White House journalists and the WHCA continue to endure anti-press machinations — In April, not long after law enforcement intercepted a suspected gunman at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner …
Discussion:
Associated Press and Fox News
Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
Sports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism — Sports Illustrated deleted an author — and his entire archive of articles — from its website following allegations of AI plagiarism.
Discussion:
@zeets.bsky.social, @mags_h11, Awful Announcing, @dan_bernstein_, @dan_bernstein_ and @dan_bernstein_
Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Sony Pictures Television acquires a majority stake in 32 Flavors, the production company behind some of Bravo's hit reality series, like The Real Housewives — The production company is behind hit Bravo reality series like “Vanderpump Rules,” “The Real Housewives” and “The Valley”
Discussion:
Pulse 2.0, Sony Pictures, Los Angeles Times, Reality Tea, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of “time and money”, facing a backlash, and more — The day John Lennon was shot, on Dec. 8, 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York's Dakota Apartments.
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El País, PetaPixel, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Next Web and The Playlist
