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Australian culture brand Broadsheet launches a London edition, including a website, newsletters, and a free quarterly print magazine, to compete with Time Out (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/broadsheet-london-launch/

Culture brand Broadsheet marks London launch with first print edition
Australian culture brand Broadsheet has officially gone live in London after eight weeks under soft launch.

Here's a great use of AI text-to-speech generation: preparing for a live pitch.
Instead of reading your pitch a hundred times so you can edit it for time, use ElevenLabs.
1. Create an account
2. Find a voice that matches your own cadence
3. Paste your script and have it generate the pitch
You'll immediately see how long the audio file is and can adjust your script for length.
Then you can spend your time **rehearsing** instead of editing.

RedBird Capital drops its £500M bid for the Telegraph Media Group, after intense pressure from the Telegraph newsroom and allies over the group's links to China (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/14/redbird-ca…

DualResearch: Entropy-Gated Dual-Graph Retrieval for Answer Reconstruction
Jinxin Shi, Zongsheng Cao, Runmin Ma, Yusong Hu, Jie Zhou, Xin Li, Lei Bai, Liang He, Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08959

DualResearch: Entropy-Gated Dual-Graph Retrieval for Answer Reconstruction
The deep-research framework orchestrates external tools to perform complex, multi-step scientific reasoning that exceeds the native limits of a single large language model. However, it still suffers from context pollution, weak evidentiary support, and brittle execution paths. To address these issues, we propose DualResearch, a retrieval and fusion framework that matches the epistemic structure of tool-intensive reasoning by jointly modeling two complementary graphs: a breadth semantic graph th…

NBCUniversal plans to launch cable sports channel NBCSN, with NBA games, Big Ten college football, and more, on November 17; source: NBCU is closing an MLB deal (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nbcu-ne

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

President Trump is using mainstream media as props in his show of force, while building a group of friendly influencers and journalists to advance policy goals (Sarah Ellison/Washington Post)

For Trump, media manipulation is his show of force
The president has long attacked the media as “fake news,” but the White House has created a new crop of journalists to advance its policy priorities.

Bob Iger says 80% of new sign-ups to ESPN's streaming service, which was launched in August, opt for the bundle that includes Disney and Hulu (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/espn-streaming-disney-hulu-bob-iger-1236616258/
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ESPN Streaming Step-Up Going “Extremely Well,” With 80% Of Subscribers Also Taking Disney+ & Hulu, Bob Iger Says
ESPN's launch last August of a beefed-up direct-to-consumer streaming service has been "a real success for a number of reasons," Disney CEO Bob Iger told Wall Street analysts Thursday.

DirecTV launches DirecTV Elect, an AI-driven political ad platform offering access to CTV ad inventory across DirecTV and US cable networks (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/directv-elect-political-ad-ctv-launch/

DIRECTV takes on local TV with political advertising product
November 11, 2025 - DIRECTV is launching a new product called DIRECTV Elect that gives political ad buyers greater reach through connected TV platforms.

Netflix's Ted Sarandos and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro plan to launch a stop-motion studio for training and research, located at the Gobelins school in Paris (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/ted-sa…

Ted Sarandos and Guillermo del Toro Unveil Stop-Motion Studio Plans
Guillermo del Toro and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos have unveiled plans for a stop-motion studio which will be built at France's Gobelins school.