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Bari Weiss appoints longtime tech journalist Nick Bilton as the executive producer of 60 Minutes, replacing Tanya Simon, a 30-year veteran of the show — Bari Weiss, CBS's editor in chief, named Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, as the show's executive producer.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Bari Weiss ousted two senior 60 Minutes executive producers, Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailovich, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega — CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shook up the TV-news industry's most-watched and best-regarded property Thursday …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode — YouTube announced on Thursday it's introducing new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool …
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Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page that lets users prompt it to create a constantly refreshing feed, available to signed-in US users with history on
YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page that lets users prompt it to create a constantly refreshing feed, available to signed-in US users with history on
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC submits license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency but says FCC's order violates the First Amendment — Disney's ABC has submitted its license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency — but said it is doing so “under protest.”
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out a Standard.site integration, letting users read long form articles, blog posts, and newsletters published across AT Protocol-powered apps — Elon Musk's X lets you write long-form content on the platform through its Articles feature, but only if you're a paid subscriber or business.
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AT Protocol, @alexbenzer.com, @pds.dad, WordPress.com News and @bsky.app
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 — CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN's content.
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Lucy Schiller / Columbia Journalism Review:
After doing away with programmatic ads, the time people spend on The American Prospect is up ~2X and a recent membership drive added ~500 new recurring donors — An ad appeared on the website of the American Prospect, featuring two cartoon people staring deeply into each other's eyes.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Sun Publisher Dovid Efune revives The Washington Star on Substack and plans a custom website and a weekend print edition by the end of the year — First, The Star was born. Now, The Washington Star is reborn. Both are hoping to win readers ceded by recent layoffs at The Washington Post.
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@davidplotz, The Washington Star and @katie_robertson
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Report on AI content licensing marketplaces: TollBit/Sphere.ai takes 0% from rights holders, ScalePost takes 15%, Cloudflare takes 30%, and ProRata takes 50% — A new report from the thinktank Open Markets Institute scopes out the current state of AI content licensing for news publishers.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Telegraph, The Sun, The New York Post, and others published a hoax story claiming Thai police dressed in drag to arrest a drug dealer, based on an AI image — UK and US news outlets have fallen victim to an AI-generated hoax after publishing reports that Thai police dressed in drag to arrest a drug dealer.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: CNBC hires The Information's Ken Brown as the network's new managing editor of digital and editorial strategy — The Information's Ken Brown is joining CNBC as managing editor of digital and editorial strategy. — Editor in Chief David Cho wrote in a memo to staff that Brown …
Bloomberg:
The top US trade representative says a draft German law that would force US streaming services to invest in German film violates the new EU-US trade deal — President Donald Trump's top trade official criticized a German draft law that would force American streaming services to invest …
