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The LA Press Club, CWA, and others sue the DHS, alleging it used excessive force and violated journalists' First Amendment rights during the LA protests (ACLU of Southern California)
https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-release

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

Sources: Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train Gemini and Veo 3; Google says it only uses a subset of videos for the training (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/google-youtube-ai-training-veo-3.html
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Google is using YouTube videos to train its AI video generator
Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC has learned.

The Economist reports revenue up 2% YoY to £368.5M for FY ending March 31, operating profit up 2% to £48.1M, subscribers up 3% to 1.25M, and digital subs up 8% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/economi…

Subscriptions growth fuels record revenue year for The Economist
The Economist grew profit, revenue and subscription numbers last year after five years of investing in staff and tech.

Sources and documents: India's CCI details alleged collusion among GroupM, Omnicom, and other major ad agencies to fix minimum ad commission rates via WhatsApp (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Meta launches generative AI tools in its Advantage suite for advertisers and agencies at Cannes, including to turn still images into videos and Virtual Try-On (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/meta…

Meta’s Advantage+ Adds Gen AI Tools for Advertisers and Agencies
The new features include the ability to transform still images into video.

An Australian journalist who had reported on the Columbia University protests while studying there recounts his interrogation and deportation by CPB at LAX (Alistair Kitchen/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/ho

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Q&A with Ashokan Studios' Justin Wells on making "high quality" conservative content, the second season of his doc about Trump's campaign and second term, more (Peter Kiefer/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…

Meet the Michael Moore of the MAGA-verse
Banished from Fox News with his boss Tucker Carlson, Justin Wells is back with a buzzy Trump documentary and a button-pushing new production company that wants to create “quality content for conservatives.”

Q&A with Seth Meyers on why he might be one of the last late-night TV hosts, how podcasts affected late-night talk shows, expanding SNL to the UK, and more (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/seth-meyers-snl-uk-no-n…

Seth Meyers on SNL UK, No New Late-Night Hosts, Cut Weekend Update Joke
Seth Meyers explains why there won't be a new 'wave' of late-night talk show hosts and gives his thoughts on the upcoming U.K. version of 'SNL.

Josh Kesselman, founder of rolling paper brand Raw, acquires High Times magazine for $3.5M, after its private equity owner failed to make loan payments in 2024 (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/high-times-mag…

New Owner for High Times Magazine Bets on a Counterculture Comeback
The anti-establishment magazine, which was taken over by a private equity firm in 2017, was purchased this week by an avid fan and reader for $3.5 million.