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11:50 AM ET, June 18, 2026

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Stephen Bush / Financial Times:
The BBC will damage or scrap some crown jewels in current affairs by canceling The World Tonight, Crossing Continents, and Money Box Live, and making other cuts  —  Government should consider direct licence fee increases or give corporation greater freedom to monetise its content  —  Good morning.
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Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M  —  New BBC director general Matt Brittin has outlined the first phase of his savings plan for the broadcaster, which includes cutting jobs …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
USA Today is using AI-assisted, pre-written soccer World Cup “shell files” for breaking news to capture traffic before Google's AI Overviews generate summaries  —  In the fight for visibility in an AI-powered search era, USA Today Co. is betting that speed can still beat the machines.
Discussion: @edbott.com
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Stephen Capus, president and CEO of RFE/RL since 2024, announces his resignation, effective September 15, and will be succeeded by Lisa Curtis  —  RFE/RL Launches Leadership Transition  —  Stephen Capus to depart in September; Lisa Curtis steps into role  —  Share:  — Share this page on Facebook
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Forbes launches The Daily Brief, an AI-powered audio briefing that turns its top three stories of the day into a five-minute podcast, which is checked by humans  —  Forbes has launched an AI-powered audio experience on its homepage that turns its top three stories of the day into a five-minute podcast.
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose:
NYT tech reporter Kevin Roose, host of Hard Fork with Casey Newton, is leaving the paper to launch a new show with Newton  —  https://x.com/...
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
DMGT renames its consumer news division to Daily Mail, promotes Vere Harmsworth to executive chairman of Daily Mail, and transfers Metro to Harmsworth Media  —  DMGT has announced an organisational shake-up which sees its consumer news division, DMG Media, renamed Daily Mail.
Business Insider:
A top Disney and ESPN exec told staff that a beta version of an AI tool to create TV ads will debut in July, to serve smaller businesses without video assets  —  Disney's AI ad push is picking up steam.  —  The company is preparing to launch a beta version of a tool for AI-generated TV ads in July …
Discussion: Ad Age and Social Media Today
 
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Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:
Reporters Without Borders and French journalists unions complain that billionaire Bernard Arnault has bought up almost all the country's business media outlets
Zoe Engels / Mediaite:
Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Silk White, whose movies and TV shows, which have grossed ~$2M in the year to February, are distributed by Filmhub to online platforms like Tubi
Discussion: The Verge
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Analysts: UK social media ban is likely to cause £1.3B in digital ad cuts in 2027, with streaming services poised to benefit as advertisers seek to reach teens
 

 
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Wired:
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable”

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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal
 
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