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B2B travel trade magazine TTG closes its print edition after 72 years to focus on digital and events, which it says account for 45% and 40% of its revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Travel magazine TTG closes print title to focus on digital and events growth
B2B travel trade magazine title TTG is closing in print after 72 years but CEO sets out "clear growth path".

UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50 members (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6736306/2025/10/21/uefa-champi…

UEFA becomes first sporting body to sign up to global anti-piracy coalition
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is already partnered with companies including Disney, Apple, Netflix and DAZN.

The nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune plans to remove its paywall in Q1 2026 and projects 2025 net revenue of about $1M on gross revenue of $13.57M (Andy Larsen/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/footer/2025/11/21/tribunes-2025-annual-report/

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center merge; Sunlight provides training, tools, and support for investigative reporting, with a focus on local news (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/rebuilding-the-research-desk-in-local-newsrooms/…

Rebuilding the research desk in local newsrooms
A merger between MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center will help slimmed-down newsrooms investigate local governments, public officials, and more.

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

A look at the top data journalism projects of 2025, including stories on conflict, climate, AI, and social media and disinformation (Hanna Duggal/Global Investigative Journalism Network)
https://gijn.org/stories/2025-editors-picks-data-journalism/

Editor’s Pick: Best of Data Journalism from 2025
Our roundup of standout data journalism from the past year highlights projects that delve into conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Africa, that explore the rise of AI, and interrogate global trade wars.

Fubo pulls NBCUniversal channels from its service, including local NBC stations, regional sports networks, CNBC, and MS Now, following a distribution dispute (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/fubo-drops-channels-from-nbc-universal-ami…

Fubo drops channels from NBC Universal amid fee dispute
Disney-owned streamer Fubo has pulled channels from rival broadcaster NBC Universal, owned by Comcast.

A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% Facebook, 50% Instagram, 37% TikTok, 32% WhatsApp, 26% Reddit, 25% Snapchat, 21% X, and 8% Threads (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-202…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Sources: WaPo is planning newsroom cuts to the audio, sports, and metro teams, and Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal said WaPo is in "severe financial distress" (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-morale

Pain at The Post
As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure as chief executive.