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WaPo opinion columnist Jonathan Capehart takes a buyout, weeks after Will Lewis called on writers who do not "feel aligned" with WaPo's "reinvention" to resign (@seanb44 / The Wrap) thewrap.com/jonathan-capeh… mediagazer.com/250721/p6#a250…
F1, whose US viewership on ESPN grew to 1.3M in 2025, risks losing casual viewers by moving to Apple TV+ but may attract younger, affluent fans in the long term (@adamminter / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… mediagazer.com/250720/p3#a250…
Sources: Paramount will pay $300M a year for five years to bring global streaming rights for South Park to Paramount+, including US rights for the first time (@megjameslat / Los Angeles Times) latimes.com/entertainment-… mediagazer.com/250722/p2#a250…
Patrick Soon-Shiong says the LA Times will go public "over the next year" and it is now "working through with an organization" to put a plan together (Variety) variety.com/2025/biz/news/… mediagazer.com/250722/p1#a250…
Amsterdam-listed firm Universal Music Group files confidentially for a US listing, which would fulfill the terms of a deal with Bill Ackman's Pershing Square (@anthug / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… mediagazer.com/250721/p15#a25…
Sources: Oracle is in talks with Skydance for a $100M/year deal for Paramount to use Oracle's cloud software if the Skydance-Paramount merger goes through (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… mediagazer.com/250721/p14#a25…
Google removed 20 YouTube channels, 4 Ads accounts, and 1 Blogger blog linked to RT in May, and thousands more channels tied to state propaganda campaigns in Q2 (@zachvallese / CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/07/21/you… mediagazer.com/250721/p13#a25…
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them (@rachelmetz / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… mediagazer.com/250721/p12#a25…
Source: Fox has officially closed its upfront discussions, reaching $2B for core sports properties, excluding the World Cup, for the first time (@saleyley / Adweek) adweek.com/convergent-tv/… mediagazer.com/250721/p11#a25…
Memo to staff: Fortune cut 10% of staff, citing a traffic decline and rise of audio/video, says its new strategy is to cultivate "premium franchise communities" (@maxwelltani) x.com/maxwelltani/st… mediagazer.com/250721/p10#a25…
In an email to employees, Fortune says it has cut 10% of staff, the result of a decline in traffic, and rise of audio/video. The company says its new strategy is "to cultivate our premium franchise communities and deliver premium editorial content to them."
The White House removes WSJ from the pool of reporters covering Trump's trip to Scotland, says it is due to WSJ's "fake and defamatory conduct" (Politico) politico.com/news/2025/07/2… mediagazer.com/250721/p9#a250…
Lithuania-based PR agency Wellstone PR launches Synapse, an AI tool that automatically drafts expert comment email responses to journalist queries (@robwaugh74 / Press Gazette) pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agency… mediagazer.com/250721/p8#a250…
Local newsletter company 6AM City acquires AI newsletter startup Good Daily, expanding 6AM subscribers from 1.4M to ~2M and footprint from 30 to 400+ US cities (@markstenberg3 / Adweek) adweek.com/media/6am-city… mediagazer.com/250721/p7#a250…
Ofcom says public service TV is becoming an "endangered species" after finding that streamers offered by PSBs only account for 9% of all viewing in the UK (@marksweney / The Guardian) theguardian.com/media/2025/jul… mediagazer.com/250721/p5#a250…
BBC Studios aims to build a lifestyle brand for all ages around its hit cartoon character Bluey, which drove a record $3.6B in global BBC retail sales in 2024 (@michaelsavage / The Guardian) theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2… mediagazer.com/250721/p4#a250…
Ofcom's Future of Public Service Media report urges the UK government to change laws to make UK public broadcaster content easier to find on YouTube (@goldbart1 / Deadline) deadline.com/2025/07/youtub… mediagazer.com/250721/p3#a250…
X says France has launched a criminal investigation over "the alleged manipulation of its algorithm" and "fraudulent" data extraction; X denies the allegations (Financial Times) ft.com/content/21818d… mediagazer.com/250721/p2#a250…
A profile of Brett Cooper, a conservative YouTuber who uses celebrity news to argue against feminism and abortion rights, as she becomes a Fox News contributor (@jtes / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/07/19/bus… mediagazer.com/250721/p1#a250…
A pitch deck from Palantir CTO and another Palantir exec has been circulated for Founders Films, a "patriotic" content production company aiming to raise money (@maxwelltani / Semafor) semafor.com/article/07/20/… mediagazer.com/250720/p5#a250…
A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast consumers play video episodes and ~30% play video episodes minimized or in background mode (@bernstein / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/07/20/sty… mediagazer.com/250720/p4#a250…