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Survey of six countries, including the US, finds 6% use AI to get news, and 12% feel comfortable with fully AI-generated news vs. 62% with human-made news (Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests

Nepal protests: Media outlets torched and journalists injured in deadly unrest - Committee to Protect Journalists
New Delhi, September 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nepali authorities to ensure the safety of journalists covering protests in the Himalayan nation, following reports the offices of at least two media outlets were set on fire and four journalists were injured in the unrest. Violent protests erupted in Kathmandu and other parts...

UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search and advertising and will begin consultation on potential new regulations later in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google

Google search, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover designated for UK regulation
Google search has formally been designated with "strategic market status" by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Netflix and Archewell Productions, the company of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, sign a new deal; source: it is worth less for the royals than their last deal (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/media/ne…

Netflix Signs New, Looser Deal With Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The streaming giant signed a new deal with the production company for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that is much less extensive than an earlier arrangement.

Source: Fox and ESPN plan to launch a bundle of their upcoming streaming services, Fox One and ESPN, on October 2 for $39.99 per month (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/fox-one-espn-bundle-streaming-sports-1236483398/

ESPN And Fox Will Bundle Their Soon-To-Launch Streaming Services
In the latest streaming milestone, ESPN and Fox are forming a bundle of their soon-to-launch services.

Reddit launches free tools for publishers within Reddit Pro to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/reddit-launches-tools-for-pu…

Reddit launches tools for publisher to track and share stories | TechCrunch
Reddit is introducing new Publisher tools under Reddit Pro.

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/blue

Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi | TechCrunch
Bluesky says the age-verification laws strike "the right balance," so it won't have to exit the states as it did in Mississippi.

David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents, has died at 83 from Lewy body dementia (Clyde Haberman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/politics/david-gergen-dead.html

David Gergen, Adviser to Presidents and Political Commentator, Dies at 83
He served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton before becoming a top editor and a familiar TV pundit. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said.

LAPD officers struck and injured UK photojournalist Nick Stern twice while he was covering LA immigration protests, and assaulted multiple other journalists (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-angel

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000 from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/food52-shannon-muldoon-company-…

The Food52 Exec Who Spent $270k on the Company Credit Card
Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer using the company credit card for clothes and travel.