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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit -
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 -
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 -
Jake Kanter / Deadline: Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually -
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 -
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 -
Mallary Tenore Tarpley / Poynter: Several journalists on Substack say they feel safer working for themselves rather than for legacy outlets, but some say earning a living wage can be difficult -
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/... -
21 minutes ago Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW: The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars on July 2 and will route more than $100,000 to Sandy Hook families, as legal fights over the website continue -
The Colorado Sun: The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building -
Adam Stern / Sports Business Journal: Apple TV plans to remove its paywall for the F1 Austrian Grand Prix, offering practice, qualifying, and the June 28 Grand Prix for free to users with Apple IDs -
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