• Pentagon Announces ‘Next Generation’ Press Corps
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NYT > Media & Advertising
    The Defense Department said that dozens of new reporters had agreed to sign the Pentagon’s rules on reporting, which have been rejected by many major news organizations.
  • Kaye Adams yet to hear complaint two weeks after being taken off BBC Radio Scotland
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Broadcaster was taken off air following what BBC News reported as ‘a conduct complaint’ Award-winning broadcaster Kaye Adams has not had any complaints put to her more than two weeks after she was taken off air by BBC Radio Scotland. BBC...
  • Meta Aims For Efficiency With Hundreds Of AI Division Job Cuts
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Meta is planning surprising cuts to an estimated 600 jobs from its Superintelligence AI Labs division.
  • Pentagon Announces Replacement Press Corps
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media from Newser
    Several outlets supportive of the political right said Wednesday they had agreed to a new press policy rejected by virtually all legacy news media organizations and will take their place in the Pentagon, the AP reports. The new Pentagon...
  • In a letter, David Ellison told the WBD board that Paramount was WBD's only viable suitor, as offers from bigger companies would invite regulatory scrutiny (New York Times)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    New York Times : In a letter, David Ellison told the WBD board that Paramount was WBD's only viable suitor, as offers from bigger companies would invite regulatory scrutiny   —  A letter from Paramount's chief executive,...
  • Perkins Miller, CEO of Fandom, which acquired TV Guide, GameSpot, Metacritic, and other outlets in 2022, has left the company and is now PlayOn Sports' new CEO (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge : Perkins Miller, CEO of Fandom, which acquired TV Guide, GameSpot, Metacritic, and other outlets in 2022, has left the company and is now PlayOn Sports' new CEO   —  Perkins Miller...
  • Source: WBD plans to require potential bidders to sign NDAs before it shares sensitive financial data; sources: Amazon and Apple have shown interest (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : Source: WBD plans to require potential bidders to sign NDAs before it shares sensitive financial data; sources: Amazon and Apple have shown interest   —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. expects to...
  • Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Copyrighted Posts
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Reddit "brings this action to stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content," the company alleged in its lawsuit.
  • CBS News boss Bari Weiss seen with bodyguards amid heightened security concerns
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    Weiss was among the dignitaries who was invited to a conference put on at the New York Historical Society by private equity giant RedBird Capital.
  • Pentagon names new press corps from far-right outlets after reporter walkout
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Spokesperson calls journalists who refused to agree to new rules ‘self-righteous media who chose to self-deport’ After the recent departure of Pentagon reporters due to their refusal to agree to a new set of restrictive policies, the...
  • Bari Weiss’ CBS News critics are either ‘really young’ or ‘really old,’ insider reveals
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    ‘We probably needed a course correction,’ a CBS News insider says of divisive new boss.
  • Google Holding On To Market Share In Search
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Google recently reversed a trend that had been dragging down the company's search market share for the past nine months.
  • MSNBC host Jen Psaki urges Dems to ‘talk like a human being’ and ‘burn’ DNC talking points
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    MSNBC host Jen Psaki urged members of the Democratic Party to "burn" Democratic National Committee (DNC) talking points and to speak "like a human being with a heart." 
  • The Guardian executive Liz Wynn says the publisher is "becoming less dependent on page views day to day" and focusing on marketing messaging to generate revenue (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Alice Brooker / Press Gazette : The Guardian executive Liz Wynn says the publisher is “becoming less dependent on page views day to day” and focusing on marketing messaging to generate revenue   —  The...
  • Michael Wolff sues Melania Trump in a NY court to try to stop her from suing him over his claims about Melania and Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein (Josh Russell/Courthouse News Service)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Josh Russell / Courthouse News Service : Michael Wolff sues Melania Trump in a NY court to try to stop her from suing him over his claims about Melania and Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein   —  The “Fire and...
  • TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Ann Gehan / The Information : TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants   —  As TikTok readies itself for...
  • Amid A Changing Of The Ad Forecast Guards, A New Player Steps In
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    On the cusp of its merger with Omnicom, Interpublic is not releasing a third quarter ad forecast for the first time in years, raising questions about its future. Interpublic has published industry forecasts since 1948. Omnicom never has.
  • The Pentagon unveils a "new media" press corps, largely from right-wing outlets like Gateway Pundit, with 60+ people signing its new restrictive press policy (Washington Post)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Washington Post : The Pentagon unveils a “new media” press corps, largely from right-wing outlets like Gateway Pundit, with 60+ people signing its new restrictive press policy   —  A new crop of conservative...
  • Judge Throws Out Suit Against Meta Over Ads For Counterfeits
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge has thrown out a Maryland resident's lawsuit over Facebook Marketplace ads for phony Morgan silver dollars.
  • The 90-Second Video Drama Series Has Become Big Business
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from ArtsJournal» MEDIA
    “In just four years since the launch of these vertical dramas, the genre’s market has surpassed $8 billion globally. … Once dismissed as a niche Chinese trend, short dramas are now one of the fastest-growing scripted formats — and...
  • MSNBC’s Jen Psaki jokes Usha Vance is afraid of her VP husband — ripped for ‘vile’ comments: ‘Not a good person’
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    MSNBC host Jen Psaki was called out on social media for her "disgusting" comments made on the "I've Had It" podcast, suggesting Vice President JD Vance's wife, Usha, is afraid of him.
  • Paramount Skydance boss eyes Warner Bros. Discovery purchase— and Trump is in his corner
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    As the Post has exclusively reported, David Zaslav has rejected three private offers for WBD from Paramount Skydance.
  • Why Have Movie-Makers Been So In Love With Apocalyptic New York?
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from ArtsJournal» MEDIA
    More than elsewhere, New York “is a city premised on destruction,” said Dana Polan, the Martin Scorsese Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. “You walk through the city and you’re endlessly seeing...
  • Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (Órla Ryan/The Irish Times)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Órla Ryan / The Irish Times : Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race   —  Deepfake...
  • Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Mike Isaac / New York Times : Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results   —  In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled...
  • Pollard Picked To Lead WTOK
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    He served as VP/GM of Coastal Television's Meridian, Miss., properties from January 2022 through March 2023 and since then has been a senior advisor with a media buying, media relations and budgeting and forecasting specialist. Meet the...
  • Carr Reiterates License Revocation Possibilities In Chat With Bozell
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    In a nearly 30-minute podcast interview conducted by the President of the conservative Media Research Center, the Chairman of the FCC made it clear that a broadcast radio or TV station's license could be at play if the Commission finds...
  • Public Concern Growing Over AI Use In News
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    There's "significant public concern over artificial intelligence and its potential to erode trust in journalism," with widespread consumer anxiety a new reality for broadcasters. That was a key takeaway at a NAB Show New York panel...
  • Taboola and Paramount Skydance launch a CTV product called Performance Multiplier, aiming to extend the reach of Paramount's small and medium-sized ad partners (Sara Fischer/Axios)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Sara Fischer / Axios : Taboola and Paramount Skydance launch a CTV product called Performance Multiplier, aiming to extend the reach of Paramount's small and medium-sized ad partners   —  Taboola, the publicly traded ad...
  • ANA Cross-Measurement Platform Aquila Taps Samba For Streaming Data
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    The deal follows one with Comscore for linear TV data and Kantar to manage a calibration panel that is at the heart of Aquila's audience reach deduplication system.
  • ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M when it raised $77.5M in March 2024 (Diana Pearl/The Business of Fashion)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Diana Pearl / The Business of Fashion : ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M when it raised $77.5M in March 2024   —  The fast-growing...
  • Bryant Gumbel Rushed to Hospital From NYC Apartment
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Media from Newser
    Veteran broadcaster Bryant Gumbel was hospitalized in New York City after a medical emergency at his Manhattan home, reports TMZ . Sources tell the outlet that first responders showed up at the 77-year-old's apartment on Monday night,...
  • The EU Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize, its top human rights award, to two imprisoned journalists: Belarus' Andrzej Poczobut and Georgia's Mzia Amaglobeli (Ferdinand Knapp/Politico)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Ferdinand Knapp / Politico : The EU Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize, its top human rights award, to two imprisoned journalists: Belarus' Andrzej Poczobut and Georgia's Mzia Amaglobeli   —  Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia...
  • Sinclair’s Cincinnati Leader Jumps To Crosstown Radio Role
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Stefan Schellhas He's been associated with Sinclair Inc.'s local television operations in Cincinnati for nearly two decades, through two stints briefly interrupted by a three-month sales role in Indianapolis. Now, he's returning to Radio, a media...
  • Netflix In An ‘Enviable’ Position … Despite A Q3 Miss
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    The world's biggest streaming video platform on Tuesday laid an egg, if you will, with its release of third quarter earnings results that one analyst said were "somewhat underwhelming." But for MoffettNathanson, the Netflix Q3 fiscal...
  • YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible   —  Mobile users can...
  • SoCal Public Radio Station KCRW Lays Off 10% Of Staff
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from ArtsJournal» MEDIA
    The latest round of layoffs at the station includes several of its most popular music hosts. KCRW let go of 20% of its staff during a COVID-related budget crisis in 2020, and it had a big round of voluntary buyouts early last year....
  • WBD's Playground: Who Wants To Play - With What Media Toys?
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Many would wonder why Netflix, the dominant premium streaming platform, would consider stepping back to grab some old-school media assets.
  • Hiring Challenges Upstage Profit Margins For Radio In 2025
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Radio remains the most profitable product for media companies, but a newly released report from SalesFuel warns of headwinds as sales teams grapple with hiring struggles, advertiser churn, and shrinking budgets.
  • Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 matches in 2022; the remaining 35 will run on FS1 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 matches in 2022; the remaining 35 will run on FS1   —  The Fox broadcast...
  • Change Is Overrated
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Change is the watchword of marketing, but it is overrated, because the fundamentals of marketing are unchanging and nothing about digital or AI changes that.
  • Netflix Doc On Philly Mob Pulls No Punches
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    "Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia" is surprisingly suspenseful and frightening in a way that these kinds of documentaries never are.
  • Yelp AI Chat Assistant Now Has A Memory
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Yelp has unveiled its fall product releases, including AI-powered call and answer services and scheduling and the "Yelp Assistant" chatbot that now has a memory.
  • UK filings: Paramount and Comcast invested $1B+ into European streamer SkyShowtime since 2022; SkyShowtime had a €543.7M operating loss in 2024, down 3% YoY (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Jake Kanter / Deadline : UK filings: Paramount and Comcast invested $1B+ into European streamer SkyShowtime since 2022; SkyShowtime had a €543.7M operating loss in 2024, down 3% YoY   —  SkyShowtime recently...
  • It’s great to see pregnant women in the public eye – but must they all be so gorgeous? | Coco Khan
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Call me cynical, but I have a feeling Victoria’s Secret wouldn’t have sent a heavily pregnant model down the runway if she looked like most of us do at that stage Determined to find new ways to stay in the headlines, the underwear brand...
  • Nexstar Stations Could Suffer ‘Blackout’ Due to Verizon Dispute
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Nexstar Logo The American Television Alliance is warning consumers that Nexstar stations in key cities where Verizon FiOs has a footprint could be blocked from its customers soon. Why? The ATVA has its opinion, lashing out once again on a broadcast...
  • SBS Settles Its RBC Loan
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Raúl Alarcón Jr. The Hispanic media company founded and led by Raúl Alarcón Jr. no longer has an outstanding debt to resolve with Royal Bank of Canada, a Material Change Report submitted to the SEC on Tuesday shows. 
  • CBS News Radio, Infinity Networks Ink Content Deal
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Audacy Inc.'s network services and content platform bearing the name of a former radio station ownership group founded by Mel Karmazin has approved a new content distribution partnership with CBS News Radio, bringing more than 700 radio...
  • Netflix Grows Q3 Revenue 17%, Profit Margins Slip
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Netflix's stock price was down 5.3% to $1,175 in after-market trading. Net income was at $2.55 billion vs. $2.36 billion in Q4 2024.
  • LinkedIn Ad Spend Forecast To Surge Through 2027
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    LinkedIn has been projected to see ad revenue surges through 2027, according to estimates from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC).
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