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Manchester-based local newsletter publisher Mill Media plans to expand to Leeds as its seventh brand if it gets 500 paying subscribers for the unnamed title (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Mill Media asks for subscribers first, promising launch later in Leeds
Mill Media is set to launch a title in Leeds on the condition it reaches 500 paying subscribers for the title.

Apple says it will bring "advanced video capabilities" to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-podcasts-vi…

Apple Podcasts Launching New Video Features
Apple Podcasts will add integrated video capabilities this spring including the ability to dynamically insert ads into video shows.

Enjoying the last few days until November when I can sit outside after dinner without getting my whole ass ate by midges

A look at long-running BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, which reaches 2M listeners a week, as Misha Glenny replaces original host Melvyn Bragg, who has retired (Nicholas Quah/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/in-our-time-bbc-podcast-new-host-interview.…

Life After Melvyn Bragg: ‘In Our Time’ Enters a New Era
After 28 years and over 1,000 episodes, Melvyn Bragg is leaving his popular BBC podcast ‘In Our Time.’ His replacement, Misha Glenny is hoping you’ll stay.

Guardian US plans to launch a daily video podcast in 2026, hosted by Kai Wright and Carter Sherman, to compete with The Daily; a source says it has 10 staff (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/15/2026/the-guardian-debuts-new-flagship-podc…

Exclusive: The Guardian debuts new flagship video podcast
The show is meant to compete with the likes of The New York Times and NPR.

Two episodes of an animated Stranger Things spinoff will screen on April 18 in 34 AMC theaters and two others before an April 23 Netflix release (Danielle Broadway/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-teleco…

Conservative creators are increasingly posting "slopulism", low-quality political content that prioritizes populist rage, aiming to provoke policy action (Nathan Taylor Pemberton/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/0

When Posting Becomes Its Own Style of Politics
Social media has long been flooded with populist rage and discontent. What happens when the posts become policy?

Q&A with Kathleen Kennedy about the highs and lows of her 14 years at Lucasfilm, going back to producing, the future of Star Wars, exploring AI tools, and more (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/kathleen-kennedy-exit-interview-1236665253/

A Shift In The Force For Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy: The Exit Interview
Not two hours after wrapping Star Wars: Starfighter, Kathleen Kennedy was ready to discuss the long-in-the-works transition of Lucasfilm.

Memo: Notus plans to "dramatically expand" its coverage of national politics with a "new version of NOTUS under a new name" and will double staff from 50 to 100 (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2033566211083014208

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
As we first reported in last night's @semafor media newsletter, NOTUS is rebranding/dramatically expanding. In a memo to staff this morning, the organization said it plans to "launch this new version of NOTUS under a new name" and double staff from 50 to 100.

A look at Now Voyager, a nonprofit bimonthly print magazine focused on long-form international reporting and partly funded by the McCormick Foundation (Alex Vadukul/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/style/a-new-magazine-in-this-media-en…

A New Magazine? In This Media Environment?
Now Voyager, an ambitious publication packed with dispatches from around the world, throws itself a party in Harlem.