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Jeff Bezos' opinion section changes contradict his October 2024 edict that WaPo won't endorse a presidential candidate because it can't be seen as taking a side (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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TikTok is preparing to shut down Creator Marketplace, which connects brands with creators, and replacing it with TikTok One, which includes AI tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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The last remaining member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, Carla Hall, says she is taking a buyout, ending her 32-year tenure at the paper (Sewell Chan/Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Source: over 40 newsroom employees at the Los Angeles Times have taken buyout offers from owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, including roughly 17 reporters (Sharon Knolle/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Google Search's new rules for product-review sites upend publishers' business models; Similarweb says Forbes Advisor's traffic fell 83% YoY in January 2025 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Memo: Warner Bros. Discovery renames its DEI group to simply "Inclusion" as part of changes to comply with "the evolving legal landscape" in the US and globally (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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A Mississippi judge lifts an order requiring a newspaper to remove an editorial, after Clarksdale city officials voted to abandon their libel lawsuit (Michael Levenson/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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TikTok revamps its desktop website with a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, and a floating player, in a bid to take on YouTube (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Nexstar anticipates The CW to become profitable in 2026, largely due to a push into live sports, which account for about 40% of its total programming time (Dade Hayes/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Sony Pictures Entertainment says it is soliciting bids from media and tech companies for the streaming rights to new episodes of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (John Koblin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an "error" that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations (Dylan Butts/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Pete Distad, previously named as the CEO of now-shuttered Venu Sports streaming service, will serve as CEO of Fox's recently announced DTC streaming service (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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A profile of London-based Mubi, a niche movie streaming service with 400 employees boosted by hit film The Substance, turning it into a real Hollywood player (Nicole Sperling/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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CBS News names Tom Cibrowski, a TV news veteran who has managed Good Morning America and the San Francisco station KGO, as president and executive editor (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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ESPN plans to launch SC+, a new SportsCenter show, on March 3 exclusively on Disney+ for US subscribers, designed for a casual, entertainment-focused audience (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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WBD projects at least 150M subscribers by the end of 2026, as Max is set to launch in Germany and Italy in Q1 2026; Netflix ended 2024 with 302M subscribers (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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EchoStar reports Q4 net pay-TV subscriber down ~253,000, compared to a loss of 314,000 in Q4 2023, and ends 2024 with 7.78M pay-TV subscribers (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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BBC Chief Content Office Charlotte Moore is leaving to become Left Bank Pictures CEO and Sony Pictures TV's creative director of international production (Jake Kanter/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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WBD reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to $10B, ad revenue down 11% to $1.8B, and losses up 24% YoY to $494M, including $1.9B in charges and restructuring expenses (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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WBD reports Q4 adjusted EBITDA for DTC, including streaming and pay-TV, of $409M, up from a $55M loss in Q4 2023, and 116.9M subscribers, up from 110.5M in Q3 (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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WPP's shares drop 15%+ after the company forecasted adjusted sales for 2025 to remain flat or shrink in 2025, missing analysts' estimates (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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A Vietnam court sentences former journalist Truong Huy San to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts; San wrote "The Winning Side" about post-war Vietnam (Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Sky COO Nick Herm criticizes Amazon for failing to tackle sports broadcast piracy, costing "hundreds of millions", and to stop illegal Fire Stick TV devices (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Netflix says its customers watched 94B+ hours in H2 2024, up 5% YoY; Squid Game, despite premiering on December 26, dominated the period with nearly 87M views (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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UK right-wing political news outlet Guido Fawkes settles a defamation case by Ecotricity founder Dale Vince; founder Paul Staines says costs would be "ruinous" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Gracenote: sports programming on top five streamers globally, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, Paramount+, and Netflix, grew by 72%+ in the recent quarter (Advanced Television) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Student newspapers that increasingly rely on financial support from the institutions they cover face struggles for editorial independence, as ad sales drop (Kirk Carapezza/GBH) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Notus, the nonprofit outlet created by the Allbritton Journalism Institute, launches the Washington Bureau Initiative to provide DC coverage to local newsrooms (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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A look at budget pressures on WBD's movie studio unit: sources say WBD CEO David Zaslav has been pushing for more financial accountability and consistency (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Reversing decades of precedent, the WHCA announces it will no longer coordinate shared coverage of President Trump amid an escalating dispute over press access (Ben Johansen/Politico) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Sources: MrBeast is in early talks to raise $200M to fund a holding company that would own his packaged goods and media businesses, targeting a ~$5B valuation (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Canada's broadcast regulator says that Google will be charged a fee to recover regulatory costs related to Canada's online news law, starting April 1 (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Internal memo: Paramount is making changes to its DEI policies to conform to efforts by the Trump administration to eliminate diversity programs (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Source: Instagram considers launching a standalone Reels app, improving recommendations, and distributing more three-minute-long videos, to compete with TikTok (The Information) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the US during the first two weeks of February, as the tech outlet aggressively covers the Trump administration and DOGE (David Bauder/Associated Press) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Paramount reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.98B and a $129M operating loss; Paramount+ subscribers grew by 5.6M in Q4 to 77.5M+ with revenue up 16% YoY (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Marty Baron condemns changes to WaPo's opinion section, says he is "disgusted" as Bezos is "betraying" WaPo's "longstanding principles" for commercial interests (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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On day one of choosing its own "press pool," the White House replaced HuffPost with Axios; two staunchly pro-Trump outlets, Newsmax and The Blaze, were added (Brian Stelter/CNN) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Sources: WaPo publisher Will Lewis told Jeff Bezos that changes to the Opinion section would have consequences for the health of the paper (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Meta's Oversight Board says it will weigh in on Meta's hate speech policies, changed before Trump's inauguration, in a test of the enforceability of its powers (Karissa Bell/Engadget) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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NPR Chief Diversity Officer Keith Woods says he is retiring May 2 after 15 years at NPR; CEO Katherine Maher says NPR won't veer from a dedication to diversity (David Folkenflik/NPR) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Meduza and hundreds of newsrooms globally, which benefited from at least $180M in annual funding from USAID and the US government, face long-term uncertainty (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis says opinion section changes are "not about siding with any political party" but about "being crystal clear about what we stand for" (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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The White House kicked out Reuters and a HuffPost reporter from Trump's Wednesday press pool; with AP still blocked, just one wire service remained in the pool (Kevin Robillard/HuffPost) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Editors of Reuters, AP, and Bloomberg News, all permanent members of the White House pool, say limiting wire access to the president harms people and markets (Reuters News Agency) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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YouTube's VP for News Partnerships Tim Katz says the platform has continued to boom as a news platform, particularly for news commentators like MeidasTouch (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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AppLovin's stock falls 10%+ after two short sellers released reports questioning the integrity of the company's AI-powered AXON ad software (CJ Haddad/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Amazon says its new generative AI assistant Alexa+ will be able to navigate through movies on Prime Video, including "jump to a scene" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Politico's White House correspondent and WHCA President Eugene Daniels leaves Politico, sources say to join MSNBC and co-host a weekend roundtable show (Dylan Byers/@dylanbyers) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Vulture launches Telematrix, a TV version of its popular movie trivia game, and expands Cinematrix to movie theaters through a partnership with Screenvision (Kerry Flynn/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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