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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 45m

How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the "who's up, who's down" part of Silicon Valley culture (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 5h

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 13h

How right-wing influencers, like Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor, are supplying the Trump administration's narrative around National Guard deployment in Portland (New York Times)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 16h

A producer for Chicago's WGN-TV was roughly detained by Border Patrol agents Friday morning; WGN said Friday evening she had been released with no charges filed (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 20h

Sources: Paramount will stop airing five UK MTV channels at the end of 2025 but keep its flagship channel; some other non-US MTV channels are also set to close (Mark Savage/BBC)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 21h

A look at Defense Secretary Hegseth's efforts to limit Pentagon press access; sources: he tried to bar an NBC News reporter who had dug up info about his past (Erik Wemple/New York Times)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 21h

A producer for WGN-TV in Chicago was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents early Friday; agents said she was detained for obstruction, which she denied (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 22h

The NYT says its journalists won't sign the Pentagon's revised press pass policy, saying it threatens to punish them for First-Amendment protected newsgathering (The New York Times Company)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 23h

Sistrix: among the 10 UK news sites with the highest search visibility scores, six saw double-digit percentage drops in Google search visibility since January (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 23h

Rick Edmonds, The Poynter Institute's longtime media business analyst, has died at 78 following a car accident (Kristen Hare/Poynter)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Spotify users can now connect their accounts to ChatGPT so it can provide recommendations for tracks, artists, podcasts, and playlists (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Perplexity Head of Publisher Partnerships Jessica Chan says it isn't "taking any new advertisers", and that ads aren't currently planned for AI browser Comet (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it's in talks with Big Tech (Politico)

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The LA Times Media Group announces plans to raise up to $500M selling private shares and is preparing an NYSE IPO in fall 2026 under the ticker symbol LAT (Katie Robertson/New York Times)

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UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search and advertising and will begin consultation on potential new regulations later in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

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Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Survey of six countries, including the US, finds 6% use AI to get news, and 12% feel comfortable with fully AI-generated news vs. 62% with human-made news (Reuters Institute)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Pew: 62% of US parents say their child under 2 watches YouTube and 84% say their child age 2-4 does; daily use for ages 2-4 grew from 38% in 2020 to 51% in 2025 (Pew Research Center)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Allen Media's free streaming app Local Now adds the FAST version of Fox Sports, Fox Weather, LiveNow from Fox, Fox Soul, and a channel re-airing TMZ episodes (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

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A federal judge in NY dismisses Drake's defamation lawsuit against record label UMG; Drake sued UMG for publishing and promoting Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us (Aaron Katersky/ABC News)

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Newsroom union members at the Los Angeles Times vote to authorize a strike as they raise the pressure for a new contract after three years of negotiations (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a "second chance" by letting them apply to create a new channel (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg)

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A federal judge in Illinois temporarily blocks federal officers from using riot control weapons or other force against members of the press and others (Alex Woodward/The Independent)

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The CEO of the Illinois Press Association says he has resigned after his board told him to pull out of a lawsuit supporting Chicago-area journalists (Mary Randolph/Local News Initiative)

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