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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 45 mins ago

Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account

Jake Kanter / Deadline: 2 hours ago

Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually

Muvija M / Reuters: 3½ hours ago

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties

Ellise Shafer / Variety:

Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M

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Jake Kanter / Deadline:

Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually

Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:

Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account

Zoe Engels / Mediaite:

Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026

Muvija M / Reuters:

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties

Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:

Reporters Without Borders and French journalists unions complain that billionaire Bernard Arnault has bought up almost all the country's business media outlets

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

A profile of Silk White, whose movies and TV shows, which have grossed ~$2M in the year to February, are distributed by Filmhub to online platforms like Tubi

Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal:

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new user in the YouTube Shorts feed

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

Analysts: UK social media ban is likely to cause £1.3B in digital ad cuts in 2027, with streaming services poised to benefit as advertisers seek to reach teens

Rebuild Local News:

The 2026 Local Journalist Index shows a persistent shortage of local journalists; states with fewer local journalists face higher municipal borrowing costs

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:

Netflix says it is “not interested” and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours

Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun Times:

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets

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