Q&A with BBC's Matt Brittin on the necessity of YouTube, growing the BBC's role in education and skills, streamers helping pay for public broadcasting, and more (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Reed Hastings departs Netflix's board following the June 4 annual shareholders meeting; Jay Hoag, Netflix's lead independent director, is named chairman (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Newsmax is planning to expand to Germany, Italy, Greece, and other international markets this year through partnerships and licensing deals with other companies (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

This weekend, Lionsgate's Michael will become the studio's highest grossing movie; the Michael Jackson biopic has earned $346.6M domestically and $508M+ abroad (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Jurors found two men guilty in a London knife attack on an Iranian journalist, after "Wanted" posters for the reporter and others circulated in Tehran (Geneva Abdul/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon (Jody Godoy/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A judge orders Paramount Skydance to reveal some internal docs from its 2025 merger, in a lawsuit by investors who say the deal unfairly enriched Shari Redstone (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Paramount Skydance unveils Paramount Games Studio, which combines Skydance's two game studios with Paramount's IP, to be headed by Tony Driscoll (Jennifer Maas/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Memo: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim say they will stay at 60 Minutes as they don't want to see it die and are "working to build trust with Nick" (Ted Johnson/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Over 20 EU news publishers file a claim seeking €640M+ from Google following an EU decision that lets anyone harmed by Google's ad market abuse seek damages (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Report: Goalhanger is the UK's fastest-growing business, with £37.9M in 2025 sales, a 321% average annual rate of growth over the past three years, and 80 staff (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Guardian's EIC says digital reader revenue rose 17% YoY to £125M in the year to March 31 and over 40% of revenue is from outside the UK, up from 8% in 2016 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Court filings: Trump's legal team has refused to hand over financial documents requested by the BBC in his $10B defamation case despite claiming financial harm (Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Filings: Xinhuanet, owned by China's official Xinhua news agency, plans to invest ~$162.38M on an "authoritative" AI agent to help promote Xi Jinping's thinking (Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A profile of Netflix's film division chair Dan Lin, who's greenlit 88 films since 2024, shifting strategy toward budget discipline and in-house development (Nicole Sperling/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Thomas Pauken II, a US journalist who worked for Chinese state-run media, has pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered agent for China in the US (Josh Gerstein/Politico) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

SAG-AFTRA members ratified a new four-year contract with major studios, including AI terms and a pension merger, after 91.4% voted in favor on 19.3% turnout (Gene Maddaus/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Telemundo says it will not cut away to commercials during World Cup hydration breaks, but there will be "some commercial aspects" that won't interrupt viewers (Austin Karp/Sports Business Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Montclair State University won a competitive bid process to manage four NJ PBS TV stations; the WNET Group in New York had managed the stations since 2011 (Julian Wyllie/Current) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An NJ law enforcement officer has been charged with stealing an injured photojournalist's camera at a protest at the Delaney Hall immigration detention site (Sophie Nieto-Munoz/New Jersey Monitor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

In an email to staff, Nick Bilton promises editorial independence for 60 Minutes and praises veteran staff members Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim (Ben Mullin/@benmullin) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Nick Bilton is making $2.5M to lead 60 Minutes, or $1M more than Tanya Simon was paid for the same job before being ousted (Page Six) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia (Tom Dotan/Newcomer) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Q&A with news influencer Sylvia Salazar, who launched her brand Tono Latino in 2017, on fighting disinformation in Spanish, providing cultural context, and more (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Longtime NBA reporter Scott Agness says WNBA team The Indiana Fever revoked his credentials following his tweet about the injury status of star Caitlin Clark (Scott Agness/Fieldhouse Files with Scott Agness) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Some right-wing news influencers are using Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses as a recording tool that unwilling subjects may not be aware of, leading to tension (Amos Barshad/Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18% (Tyler Falk/Current) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Run-A-Muck, a media startup that has launched a newsletter and is developing 20+ TV, movie, and podcast projects, raised a $10M seed at an $80M valuation (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Comcast commits to investing £6B to develop its Universal United Kingdom Resort in Bedfordshire, its first resort complex in Europe; the UK is investing £1.3B (Najat Kantouar/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Police at an NJ immigration center's protests treated media inconsistently; the US Press Freedom Tracker counted 30 assaults by officers on reporters in a week (Adam Rose/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio working with ElevenLabs and voice actors to create and license AI-native versions of its characters and franchises (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta says Australia's proposed tax on domestic revenue for tech giants that don't sign news licensing deals violates the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement (Byron Kaye/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Prime Video releases its first weekly list of its most popular original series and films on the service, joining Netflix in making global top 10 lists each week (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Canada's government says it will issue a new policy direction under the Online Streaming Act, forcing the CRTC to reduce or eliminate fees for US streamers (Mickey Djuric/Politico) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A look at the growing trend of active NBA and WNBA players appearing as broadcast contributors and analysts, a practice common in tennis and the NFL previously (Danielle Lerner/USA Today) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Amazon Music Prime is including ads starting July 2 in India, as the company launches a paid subscription tier for Music Unlimited for roughly $1 per month (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Two Stars and Stripes advisory board members sue the US Defense Department, saying new restrictions on the paper violate the First Amendment and federal law (Washington Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Wigmore Hall Live, which produces recordings of live classical music concerts, partners with Apple Music Classical and will give 100% of royalties to performers (Gramophone) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Europol and international law enforcement agencies dismantle nine organized crime groups and arrest 29 in a crackdown on illegal streaming, removing 27K URLs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square plans to sell its stake in Universal Music Group, days after the Amsterdam-listed group rejected his takeover bid (Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Rakuten survey of 750 European users in five markets: 80.1% consider FAST channels a "main way" to watch TV and 73.7% watch FAST daily or several times per week (Jesse Whittock/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Snap promotes 10-year veteran Anmol Malhotra to global head of content and partnerships, succeeding Jim Shepherd who recently departed for Meta (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Plex adds new social features, including Discussions, a community forum with a hybrid AI and human moderation system, and a Match Score to suggest content (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A YouTube executive says YouTube is working on integrating its platform with publisher paywalls after Le Monde "pushed us to start developing that solution" (Bron Maher/A Media Operator) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

On a staff call, Bari Weiss defends firing Scott Pelley, saying the foundation of "trust and mutual respect" was broken after Pelley's outburst on Monday (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Minnesota Star Tribune, which has ~495 staffers, plans to cut its workforce by 15%, or 65 jobs, via buyouts and layoffs, one month after winning a Pulitzer (Christopher Vondracek/Minneapolis Star Tribune) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink