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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

NPR's editor in chief and acting chief content officer Edith Chapin is stepping down, making the announcement days after Congress voted to end federal funding to public broadcasting although she said this was not why she made the decision. npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-…

pressgazette's tweet card. NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 5 h

“We weren’t considering clickbait, it just so happens that it caught the public’s imagination”: @Observeruk journalist @chloehadj shares the inside story behind the Salt Path investigation pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nat…

pressgazette's tweet card. The Observer's coverage of the "real" Salt Path has given it one of the highest market shares the paper has ever recorded.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 10 h

The Observer's exposé of the "real" Salt Path has boosted its online traffic and print sales, but involved legal hurdles and the creation of an ‘AI’ book pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nat…

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 12 h

Google AI summaries start to roll out in Discover in US pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-ai…

pressgazette's tweet card. AI summaries roll out in Google Discover, posing new threat to publishers who rely on the app for traffic.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 12 h

BBC 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake has resigned from the broadcaster, saying: "I do feel that the BBC is in an existential crisis, especially BBC News" and it has failed to "communicate truth and hold power to account" on Israel and Gaza thetimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

pressgazette's tweet card. The award-winning DJ has resigned from his BBC 5 Live job due to what he says is an ‘existential crisis’ at the institution and its lack of progress on diversity

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 14 h

MyLondon says Hillingdon Council decision to stop engaging with its local democracy reporter over alleged "political bias" is "aggressive, unnecessary and akin to a toddler tantrum" and shows the journalist is effectively holding the authority to account mylondon.news/news/west-lond…

pressgazette's tweet card. MyLondon is calling out the West London council's toddler tantrum in response to the excellent journalism of our Hillingdon Local Democracy Reporter whose job it is to hold them to account

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 14 h

New Pew Research Center data shows users who encountered a Google AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link 8% of the time, vs 15% when there was no AI Overview. The most frequently cited sources by Google were Wikipedia, Youtube and Reddit pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

pressgazette's tweet card. In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · 15 h

Foreign state-owned investors cleared to hold 15% stake in UK newspapers, meaning end coming to The Telegraph's two-year ownership limbo pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nat…

pressgazette's tweet card. A bid to block foreign state-owned investors from holding a 15% stake in UK newspapers like The Telegraph has been seen off at a Lords vote.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

Public service broadcasters need ‘stable’ funding for news and prominence on Youtube, Ofcom finds pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/bro…

pressgazette's tweet card. Ofcom is calling for legislation to be changed to ensure news is legally accessible on video platform YouTube.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

The Washington Post's 'Tiktok guy' Dave Jorgenson is taking a voluntary buyout to launch an online video company based on his own Youtube channel, Local News International, along with two Post colleagues nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…

pressgazette's tweet card. Dave Jorgenson is starting his own video company that explains the news, with a twist. Think Jon Stewart meets Ron Burgundy.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

The NYT has defended the WSJ after Trump sued over a story linking him to Jeffrey Epstein and denied it access to the press pool. The NYT said it was "simple retribution by a president against a news organisation for doing reporting that he doesn’t like" theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

pressgazette's tweet card. The Times says Trump punished the Wall Street Journal over Epstein reporting in a move that endangers free speech

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

The Law Commission says journalists should be able to stay in court even if the public must leave when complainants in sex offence cases give evidence, counter to its previous proposals, because "open justice is a fundamental principle of criminal trials" societyofeditors.org/soe_news/law-c…

pressgazette's tweet card. Law Commission calls for media to remain in court during sexual offence evidence sessions..

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

Synapse Media (which is unconnected with the PR agency at the centre of this article) has instructed its lawyers to take action "as this use of our trademark raises serious concerns regarding potential infringement of our intellectual property rights" pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agency…

pressgazette's tweet card. A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has told The Daily Show he plans to take the newsbrand public in the next year to "allow it to be democratised and allow the public to have the ownership of this paper" edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/med…

pressgazette's tweet card. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire who purchased the Los Angeles Times for $500 million in 2018, said Monday he is taking the ailing newspaper public.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

The French foreign minister has urged Israel to let "the free and independent press" into Gaza "to show what is happening there and to bear witness", after AFP warned the lives of Palestinian freelance journalists it was working with in Gaza are in danger lemonde.fr/en/france/arti…

pressgazette's tweet card. Jean-Noël Barrot also called for an 'immediate ceasefire' in the Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel expanded military operations to the central city of Deir el-Balah. 'There is no longer any justifi...

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

Fortune is cutting 10% of its global workforce, which reportedly stands out about 360 full-time staffers meaning almost 40 people could be affected pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/jou…

pressgazette's tweet card. Press Gazette tracks job cuts in the UK and US journalism industries throughout 2025 in this up-to-date list.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

A Wall Street Journal reporter has been removed from the press pool for Donald Trump's upcoming trip to Scotland after he sued the newspaper and owner Rupert Murdoch over a story linking him to Jeffrey Epstein theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

pressgazette's tweet card. As president sues paper over alleged letter, Karoline Leavitt cites ‘fake and defamatory conduct’ for kicking out reporter

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 22

Wales newsletter author Will Hayward launches fund to support new investigative journalists pressgazette.co.uk/news/wales-new…

pressgazette's tweet card. Former Welsh affairs editor at Reach’s Wales Online Will Hayward has launched a fund aiming to support young investigative journalists.

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Press Gazette@pressgazette · Jul 21

Clickbait has become ‘self-perpetuating cycle’ drowning out genuine news: "The effectiveness of clickbait-style posts is also affecting the kind of stories news sites and newspapers write – more simplistic, emotive news is the order of the day" pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analys…

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Leona O'Neill@LeonaONeill1 · Jul 20

. @CNN @clarissaward at MediaStrong 2025: “I get death threats all the time, my children get death threats. It’s obviously deeply unpleasant when you add it to the intensity of the job that we’re doing already.” @pressgazette story on MediaStrong👇 pressgazette.co.uk/news/i-get-dea…

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