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Australia says it will ban gambling ads featuring celebrities and limit online gambling ads to logged-in users over 18 starting in 2027 — Australia said it would ban gambling advertisements featuring celebrities and limit online gambling advertisements to internet users over 18 from next year …
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Sydney Morning Herald, Sports Business Journal, 9 News Australia on YouTube, Guardian Australia on YouTube, The Conversation, 9News, SBS News, The Guardian, Mumbrella, The Australian, The Guardian, @albomp, @davidpurdum, The Australian, The Guardian, @owenrask, Sydney Morning Herald, iGB, Sportico, ABC, Bloomberg, BBC, Daily Mail, @tmfscottp and Australian Financial Review
Sara Fischer / Axios:25 minutes ago
Versant buys StockStory, an AI-powered service that generates reports with investment advice to support CNBC; PitchBook: the startup has raised $3.2M since 2020 — Versant, the publicly traded cable spinoff from Comcast, has acquired StockStory, an AI-powered platform that generates reports …
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Deadline and Business Wire
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025 — Editorial director Katie Drummond explains how UK newsroom fits into global strategy. — Wired will not put out a print magazine …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
CBS News 24/7's 60-person union has reached a tentative three-year contract deal with the network after a 24-hour walkout on March 17 — The tentative agreement comes weeks after the 60-member unit staged a daylong walkout — The 60-member union for CBS News 24/7, the news organization's …
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The Guardian and Deadline
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Beehiiv introduces Podcasts, letting creators host, distribute, and monetize podcasts directly on the platform, and plans to dynamically serve ads in podcasts — Newsletter platform Beehiiv is introducing native podcast hosting, the company told TechCrunch.
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Variety, Creator Exchange, @jacobwolf and @beehiiv
New York Times:
Sources: an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson — The Iranian-aligned militia, Kataib Hezbollah, is pressing for the release of members detained by the Iraqi government in exchange for freeing the journalist, Shelly Kittleson.
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix averaged 3M viewers for its Opening Night MLB game March 25, a bit short of NBC and Peacock's MLB broadcast the next night, with 3.2M viewers — Netflix and NBC each draw 3 million viewers for their first primetime telecasts under a new deal with MLB.
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Barrett Media, Sportico, Mediaite, Awful Announcing, Netflix Press Site, Fox News, NBCSports.com and Media Play News
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
BBC sources reflect on Tim Davie's DG tenure, mired in impartiality disputes but succeeding in a cultural transformation, as Matt Brittin takes over on May 18 — If Matt Brittin needs a measure of insight about the pressures he's agreed to shoulder, the incoming BBC director general needs …
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Comcast dropped dozens of local TV stations owned by E. W. Scripps from Xfinity TV on Tuesday due to a distribution dispute — It's no April Fool's joke — some Comcast customers woke up to find one or more of their favorite TV stations missing from their Xfinity TV packages early Wednesday morning.
Bill Adair / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Bryan Jacobs, creator of TomWikiAssist, a NanoClaw Clawbot built to edit and write for Wikipedia, on the mostly negative reactions of human editors — “It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."
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@richardsever.bsky.social, Security Boulevard and Slate
Will Groff / Wall Street Journal:
Edison Research: female listeners make up 28% of Theo Von's audience and 22% of Joe Rogan's, representing an undertapped market for “manosphere” podcasts — While hosts like Theo Von and Joe Rogan primarily market to men, they've drawn female listeners with a politically adaptable …
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The Atlantic and @wsj
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: Eater has been central to Vox Media's divestiture talks as interest in food media grows, an uptick that began when Wonder bought Tastemade for $90M — Eater and Tasty are the latest publishers looking to capitalize on a growing appetite for food and dining brands
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