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Sources: Bari Weiss has complained that CBS News' Standards and Practices team has "too much power" and asked "what's the point of standards?" (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a

Bari Weiss wants to take down CBS News’ Standards and Practices unit for having ‘too much power’: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

»Tinder Wants to See Your Photos to Find Better Matches:
Tinder is testing a new AI feature called ‘Chemistry’, which learns information about a user by analyzing photos from their camera roll. It aims to improve how users connect on the app by offering fewer, more compatible matches.«
Oh-come-on — Who of you needs his privacy and it's just dating and not a wet dream of power or…, or…, or…?!??
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Tinder Wants to See Your Photos to Find Better Matches
But will users allow it?

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

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).

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolling out Preferred Sources globally and announces Spotlighting subscriptions
Spotlighting subscriptions are coming to Gemini first and then AI Mode and AI Overviews within Google Search.

TikTok and iHeartMedia partner for the TikTok Podcast Network, with up to 25 new podcasts by TikTok creators focusing on lifestyle, personal stories, and more (Colin Kirkland/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/articl…

TikTok Takes On Broadcast Radio, Podcasting With Partnership
iHeartMedia and TikTok are collaborating on a new "TikTok Podcast Network," a digital radio station and live event integrations featuring TikTok creators-turned-podcasters.

The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
A licensing standard aimed at making AI companies pay for the content they scrape across the web is now official. With the publication of the RSL 1.0 spec, publishers can dictate licensing rules and indicate whether they want their content to appear in AI search.

Trump thanks the Telegraph for "exposing" that BBC Panorama had misleadingly edited his January 6 speech; BBC got a letter threatening legal action from Trump (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/trump-

Trump thanks Telegraph for 'exposing' BBC as Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign
Trump press secretary backs GB News and calls BBC "100% fake news".

Sources: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is looking for big acquisitions, including talking to Bari Weiss earlier this year about acquiring The Free Press (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/09/2025/axel-springers-ce…

Exclusive: Axel Springer’s CEO — and biggest star — is chasing his next deal
Mathias Döpfner is emerging as a new-school mogul: ubiquitously public, sitting on a pile of cash, and on the hunt for more deals.

Amazon says advertising reaches 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels on Prime Video (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-31…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.