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SAG-AFTRA ends the 300+ day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Jennifer Maas / Variety) variety.com/2025/gaming/ne… mediagazer.com/250611/p20#a25…

The TV industry is poised for a makeover; source: if the Paramount merger closes, Skydance will likely try to buy more local stations to boost its CBS network (@jbflint / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/business/media… mediagazer.com/250611/p22#a25…

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 (@variety_cynthia / Variety) variety.com/2025/film/news… mediagazer.com/250612/p1#a250…

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 (@scottnover / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/style/media/20… mediagazer.com/250612/p2#a250…

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 (Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review) cjr.org/analysis/small… mediagazer.com/250612/p3#a250…

A US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market (@mikescarcella / Reuters) reuters.com/legal/litigati… mediagazer.com/250612/p4#a250…

Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks (@jake_kanter / Deadline) deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-ne… mediagazer.com/250612/p5#a250…

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 (Zoe Kleinman / BBC) bbc.com/news/articles/… mediagazer.com/250612/p6#a250…

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20+ films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (@charlespulliam / The Verge) theverge.com/news/684374/tu… mediagazer.com/250612/p7#a250…

Researchers find evidence that a second fanpage.it journalist, along with an anonymous European journalist, were targeted using Graphite spyware (The Guardian) theguardian.com/media/2025/jun… mediagazer.com/250612/p8#a250…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technology/202… mediagazer.com/250612/p9#a250…

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 (Ricardo Brito / Reuters) reuters.com/world/americas… mediagazer.com/250612/p10#a25…

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 (Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter) hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n… mediagazer.com/250612/p11#a25…

Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end (Kerry Flynn 🐶 / Axios) axios.com/2025/06/12/lyf… mediagazer.com/250612/p12#a25…

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/06/12/bus… mediagazer.com/250612/p13#a25…

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 (Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter) hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit… mediagazer.com/250612/p14#a25…

Pinterest and affiliate shopping platform LTK announce a pilot program in which high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest (@miarsato / The Verge) theverge.com/news/685830/pi… mediagazer.com/250612/p15#a25…

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 (Ted Johnson / Deadline) deadline.com/2025/06/house-… mediagazer.com/250612/p16#a25…

SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements (Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap) thewrap.com/sag-aftra-vide… mediagazer.com/250612/p17#a25…

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 (@lukebk / Cord Cutters News) cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-is-shuttin… mediagazer.com/250612/p18#a25…