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7:25 AM ET, June 13, 2025

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The US House votes 214-212 to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for public broadcasting for the next two fiscal years; the bill now heads to the Senate  —  The House of Representatives put the future of the public broadcasting ecosystem in doubt, as they voted to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the next two fiscal years.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network; the two had raised $15M for TCN in 2023  —  Tucker Carlson and his business partner, Neil Patel, recently bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network (TCN) …
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements  —  Full text of the tentative agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996  —  In a significant shakeup for the television industry, HBO, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, has confirmed plans to shut …
New York Times:
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content  —  The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site  —  Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones  —  Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Tubi announces plans to distribute 20+ films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund  —  Tubi is partnering with Kickstarter to distribute more than 20 crowdfunded films. … Today, Tubi (which is owned by Fox) …
Ricardo Brito / Reuters:
Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines  —  Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that social media companies must be held accountable for some types of content published …
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein's rape charge retrial ends in a mistrial after the jury foreperson refused to return to the jury room due to threats from other jurors  —  “I feel afraid inside there.  I can't be inside there,” the jury foreperson said Thursday. … The 12-person jury in Weinstein's trial …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks  —  Several sources told Deadline that four senior journalists have lodged separate, but coordinated, age discrimination complaints after being shown the door.
Discussion: @pressgazette.co.uk
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CNN is expanding its podcast business by rebranding CNN Audio to CNN Podcasts and plans to introduce new talent and formats, including more video podcasts  —  The news network is rebranding CNN Audio as CNN Podcasts, as it develops new formats and shifts attention to new talent.
 
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Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
TollBit: traffic from RAG bots, which scrape information in real time, to 266 websites, half of which are from news outlets, grew 49% from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025
The Guardian:
Researchers find evidence that a second fanpage.it journalist, along with an anonymous European journalist, were targeted using Graphite spyware
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market
Discussion: Bloomberg Law
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Small-town newspapers are shutting down due to the lack of a succession plan, not financial issues, in nearly a dozen US states, a growing problem
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders
Glenn Garner / Deadline:
Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network
 

 
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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI and Microsoft talks have become so fraught that OpenAI execs discussed accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior before federal regulators

Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile

Financial Times:
Justin Sun's Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed toy maker SRM Entertainment, which intends to buy TRX tokens and rename itself Tron
 
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