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Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't "negotiate in the media" (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-10-31T21:30:00-04:00

Lexy Perez / The Hollywood Reporter:
Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't “negotiate in the media”  —  “What I'm hearing in the building is not what I'm reading in the press,” she said to TMZ on Friday.

Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, "did serious damage to our reputation" (Jake Kanter/Deadline) - 2025-10-31T20:40:00-04:00

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, “did serious damage to our reputation”  —  Ian Brunskill, an associate editor at The Times, emailed the newsroom lamenting the “humiliating” botched interview with the former New York City mayor.

The White House says that journalists can no longer access "Upper Press" in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment (Brett Samuels/The Hill) - 2025-10-31T20:20:03-04:00

Brett Samuels / The Hill:
The White House says that journalists can no longer access “Upper Press” in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment  —  The White House on Friday announced it would no longer allow members of the media to freely access a part of the West Wing …

An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) - 2025-10-31T19:20:00-04:00

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers  —  YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-10-31T18:00:00-04:00

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings  —  Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.

After earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, President Trump was interviewed Friday for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase (Max Tani/Semafor) - 2025-10-31T17:25:05-04:00

Max Tani / Semafor:
After earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, President Trump was interviewed Friday for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase  —  The Scoop  —  CBS News is learning that several million dollars go a long way to healing a relationship with President Donald Trump.

An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post) - 2025-10-31T17:00:05-04:00

Brianna Tucker / Washington Post:
An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story  —  Communications director Matt Mercer later says in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”

Jim Rodenbush, Indiana University's former director of student media, is suing the school, after he was fired when he refused to pull news from the school paper (Ethan Sandweiss/Indiana Public Media) - 2025-10-31T15:45:00-04:00

Ethan Sandweiss / Indiana Public Media:
Jim Rodenbush, Indiana University's former director of student media, is suing the school, after he was fired when he refused to pull news from the school paper  —  Former director of student media Jim Rodenbush is suing Indiana University for wrongful termination.

Indiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship (Katie Robertson/New York Times) - 2025-10-31T15:40:01-04:00

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Indiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship  —  The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student media and said that news coverage could be published only online.

Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with "no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2025-10-31T14:10:03-04:00

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with “no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us”  —  Disney top brass told the troops that the media company's leaders are going to continue to fight for a “fair deal” …

A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise (Michelle Kim/Rest of World) - 2025-10-31T13:15:01-04:00

Michelle Kim / Rest of World:
A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise  —  In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.

Rolling Stone is turning the Rolling Stone Interview into a video podcast series, starting with Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch (Peter White/Deadline) - 2025-10-31T11:00:47-04:00

Peter White / Deadline:
Rolling Stone is turning the Rolling Stone Interview into a video podcast series, starting with Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch  —  The Rolling Stone Interview has featured the likes of Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Ray Charles, Eddie Murphy, Axl Rose, Jack Nicholson and Taylor Swift since it launched in 1967.

Sources: CBS News cut two streaming shows, disbanded its Race & Culture unit, and closed its Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women (Justin Baragona/The Independent) - 2025-10-31T10:00:51-04:00

Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Sources: CBS News cut two streaming shows, disbanded its Race & Culture unit, and closed its Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women  —  EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following …

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - 2025-10-31T09:20:01-04:00

Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools  —  Getty Images (GETY.N) and Perplexity signed a global multi-year licensing agreement on Friday, allowing the AI startup to display …

Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023 (Bill Grueskin/@bgrueskin.bsky.social) - 2025-10-31T08:15:04-04:00

Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social:
Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023  —  Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs …

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Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't "negotiate in the media" (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-10-31T21:30:00-04:00

Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, "did serious damage to our reputation" (Jake Kanter/Deadline) - 2025-10-31T20:40:00-04:00

The White House says that journalists can no longer access "Upper Press" in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment (Brett Samuels/The Hill) - 2025-10-31T20:20:03-04:00

An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) - 2025-10-31T19:20:00-04:00

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-10-31T18:00:00-04:00

After earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, President Trump was interviewed Friday for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase (Max Tani/Semafor) - 2025-10-31T17:25:05-04:00

An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post) - 2025-10-31T17:00:05-04:00

Jim Rodenbush, Indiana University's former director of student media, is suing the school, after he was fired when he refused to pull news from the school paper (Ethan Sandweiss/Indiana Public Media) - 2025-10-31T15:45:00-04:00

Indiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship (Katie Robertson/New York Times) - 2025-10-31T15:40:01-04:00

Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with "no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2025-10-31T14:10:03-04:00

A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise (Michelle Kim/Rest of World) - 2025-10-31T13:15:01-04:00

Rolling Stone is turning the Rolling Stone Interview into a video podcast series, starting with Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch (Peter White/Deadline) - 2025-10-31T11:00:47-04:00

Sources: CBS News cut two streaming shows, disbanded its Race & Culture unit, and closed its Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women (Justin Baragona/The Independent) - 2025-10-31T10:00:51-04:00

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - 2025-10-31T09:20:01-04:00

Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023 (Bill Grueskin/@bgrueskin.bsky.social) - 2025-10-31T08:15:04-04:00

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Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't "negotiate in the media" (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-10-31T21:30:00-04:00

Lexy Perez / The Hollywood Reporter:
Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't “negotiate in the media”  —  “What I'm hearing in the building is not what I'm reading in the press,” she said to TMZ on Friday.

Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, "did serious damage to our reputation" (Jake Kanter/Deadline) - 2025-10-31T20:40:00-04:00

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, “did serious damage to our reputation”  —  Ian Brunskill, an associate editor at The Times, emailed the newsroom lamenting the “humiliating” botched interview with the former New York City mayor.

The White House says that journalists can no longer access "Upper Press" in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment (Brett Samuels/The Hill) - 2025-10-31T20:20:03-04:00

Brett Samuels / The Hill:
The White House says that journalists can no longer access “Upper Press” in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment  —  The White House on Friday announced it would no longer allow members of the media to freely access a part of the West Wing …

An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) - 2025-10-31T19:20:00-04:00

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers  —  YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-10-31T18:00:00-04:00

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings  —  Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.

After earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, President Trump was interviewed Friday for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase (Max Tani/Semafor) - 2025-10-31T17:25:05-04:00

Max Tani / Semafor:
After earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, President Trump was interviewed Friday for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase  —  The Scoop  —  CBS News is learning that several million dollars go a long way to healing a relationship with President Donald Trump.

An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post) - 2025-10-31T17:00:05-04:00

Brianna Tucker / Washington Post:
An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story  —  Communications director Matt Mercer later says in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”

Jim Rodenbush, Indiana University's former director of student media, is suing the school, after he was fired when he refused to pull news from the school paper (Ethan Sandweiss/Indiana Public Media) - 2025-10-31T15:45:00-04:00

Ethan Sandweiss / Indiana Public Media:
Jim Rodenbush, Indiana University's former director of student media, is suing the school, after he was fired when he refused to pull news from the school paper  —  Former director of student media Jim Rodenbush is suing Indiana University for wrongful termination.

Indiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship (Katie Robertson/New York Times) - 2025-10-31T15:40:01-04:00

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Indiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship  —  The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student media and said that news coverage could be published only online.

Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with "no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2025-10-31T14:10:03-04:00

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with “no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us”  —  Disney top brass told the troops that the media company's leaders are going to continue to fight for a “fair deal” …

A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise (Michelle Kim/Rest of World) - 2025-10-31T13:15:01-04:00

Michelle Kim / Rest of World:
A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise  —  In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.

Rolling Stone is turning the Rolling Stone Interview into a video podcast series, starting with Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch (Peter White/Deadline) - 2025-10-31T11:00:47-04:00

Peter White / Deadline:
Rolling Stone is turning the Rolling Stone Interview into a video podcast series, starting with Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch  —  The Rolling Stone Interview has featured the likes of Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Ray Charles, Eddie Murphy, Axl Rose, Jack Nicholson and Taylor Swift since it launched in 1967.

Sources: CBS News cut two streaming shows, disbanded its Race & Culture unit, and closed its Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women (Justin Baragona/The Independent) - 2025-10-31T10:00:51-04:00

Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Sources: CBS News cut two streaming shows, disbanded its Race & Culture unit, and closed its Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women  —  EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following …

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - 2025-10-31T09:20:01-04:00

Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools  —  Getty Images (GETY.N) and Perplexity signed a global multi-year licensing agreement on Friday, allowing the AI startup to display …

Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023 (Bill Grueskin/@bgrueskin.bsky.social) - 2025-10-31T08:15:04-04:00

Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social:
Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023  —  Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs …