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Memo: Vanity Fair Editor Radhika Jones tells staff that she will step down this spring after seven years of leading the Cond� Nast-owned magazine (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-04-03T13:40:01-04:00

Newsmax shares fell 77.5% on Wednesday after a 2,230% surge in its first two days on the NYSE; NMAX rose 5%+ on Thursday (Yun Li/CNBC) - 2025-04-03T13:25:00-04:00

A Polish court awards compensation to two photojournalists who were treated brutally by Polish soldiers while they were reporting at the Belarus border in 2021 (Agata Pyka/Notes From Poland) - 2025-04-03T13:10:01-04:00

DMGT signs a deal with Storied Media Group to help the Daily Mail and New Scientist license stories to production companies and create branded content (Sean Burch/The Wrap) - 2025-04-03T12:10:02-04:00

Longtime Washington Post columnist and reporter Eugene Robinson is leaving the paper, citing the "announced 'significant shift' in our section's mission" (Ben Mullin/@benmullin.bsky.social) - 2025-04-03T11:40:01-04:00

Former Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc joins Togethxr, a media and commerce startup focused on women's sports, as executive chair; source: revenue so far in 2025 is $30M (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-04-03T10:10:00-04:00

AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others (Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T09:30:02-04:00

Australian PM Anthony Albanese asserts his support for local content quotas on streaming platforms, despite pushing their implementation back from July 1 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety) - 2025-04-03T08:10:02-04:00

Spotify debuts new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada that generates scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as "nutritional" (Jessica Testa/New York Times) - 2025-04-03T05:55:00-04:00

A look at CBS' bet on its massive overhaul of the Evening News, with greater emphasis on in-depth reporting on the ground from places beyond NYC, DC, and LA (Brian Steinberg/Variety) - 2025-04-03T03:50:01-04:00

Wikimedia says bandwidth usage for multimedia content grew 50% since January 2024, driven by AI training bots; 65% of resource-consuming traffic comes from bots (Wikimedia) - 2025-04-03T02:15:01-04:00

Bengaluru-based Pratilipi, which runs Pratilipi Comics, podcasting studio IVM, and more, raised a $20M Series E at a $100M valuation, down from $265M in 2021 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times) - 2025-04-02T22:15:00-04:00

A look at the ascent of true crime podcaster John Allen, known as MrBallen, and the success of Ballen Studios, which employs 70 people and produces seven shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - 2025-04-02T20:45:01-04:00

Users complain that three well-known sites that help avoid paywalls, including archive.is, redirected them to Russia's RT for at least five days as of Tuesday (Brendan Ruberry/Semafor) - 2025-04-02T16:45:00-04:00

Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm (Kaya Yurieff/The Information) - 2025-04-02T15:21:09-04:00

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Mediagazer - 2025-04-03T13:41:01-04:00

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: Vanity Fair Editor Radhika Jones tells staff that she will step down this spring after seven years of leading the Condé Nast-owned magazine — Jones, who joined the Condé Nast publication in 2017, will leave in the spring. — There will be a changing of the guard atop Vanity Fair …

Newsmax shares fell 77.5% on Wednesday after a 2,230% surge in its first two days on the NYSE; NMAX rose 5%+ on Thursday (Yun Li/CNBC) - 2025-04-03T13:25:00-04:00

Yun Li / CNBC:
Newsmax shares fell 77.5% on Wednesday after a 2,230% surge in its first two days on the NYSE; NMAX rose 5%+ on Thursday — Shares of conservative news channel Newsmax plunged more than 70% on Wednesday as its meteoric rise as a new public company proved to be short-lived.

Agata Pyka / Notes From Poland:
A Polish court awards compensation to two photojournalists who were treated brutally by Polish soldiers while they were reporting at the Belarus border in 2021 — A Polish court has awarded compensation to two photojournalists working for major international media outlets due to the brutal treatment …

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
DMGT signs a deal with Storied Media Group to help the Daily Mail and New Scientist license stories to production companies and create branded content — The 129-year-old London publication has teamed up with Storied Media Group LLC to turn its articles into fresh Hollywood productions

Ben Mullin / @benmullin.bsky.social:
Longtime Washington Post columnist and reporter Eugene Robinson is leaving the paper, citing the “announced ‘significant shift’ in our section's mission” — Here's his email: [image]

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Former Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc joins Togethxr, a media and commerce startup focused on women's sports, as executive chair; source: revenue so far in 2025 is $30M — The media veteran joins a group of her industry peers at Togethxr, a company that aims to capitalize on interest in women's sports

AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others (Bloomberg) - 2025-04-03T09:30:02-04:00

Bloomberg:
AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others — The deal, which is set to be announced Thursday, pushes Runway's value to just over $3 billion, according to people familiar …

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Australian PM Anthony Albanese asserts his support for local content quotas on streaming platforms, despite pushing their implementation back from July 1 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has doubled down on the government's commitment to implement local content quotas for streaming platforms …

Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Spotify debuts new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada that generates scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional” — After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.”

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A look at CBS' bet on its massive overhaul of the Evening News, with greater emphasis on in-depth reporting on the ground from places beyond NYC, DC, and LA — Billboard Women in Music 2025 — The venerable “CBS Evening News” has, for many of its viewers, been something consumed along with dinner.

Wikimedia:
Wikimedia says bandwidth usage for multimedia content grew 50% since January 2024, driven by AI training bots; 65% of resource-consuming traffic comes from bots — Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community - especially for the 144 million images …

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times:
Bengaluru-based Pratilipi, which runs Pratilipi Comics, podcasting studio IVM, and more, raised a $20M Series E at a $100M valuation, down from $265M in 2021 — The deal, however, has been struck at a significantly lower post-funding valuation of $100 million, as per cofounder and CEO Ranjeet Pratap Singh.

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A look at the ascent of true crime podcaster John Allen, known as MrBallen, and the success of Ballen Studios, which employs 70 people and produces seven shows — John Allen, known online as MrBallen, operates a 70-person company with his Pulitzer Prize-winning family on staff.

Brendan Ruberry / Semafor:
Users complain that three well-known sites that help avoid paywalls, including archive.is, redirected them to Russia's RT for at least five days as of Tuesday — The Scoop — Three well-known sites that help users avoid paywalls mysteriously redirected users to Russian state-controlled …

Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm — President Donald Trump plans to announce later on Wednesday his plan for a new company called TikTok America …

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