Artforum EIC Tina Rivers Ryan plans to step down at the end of February; Executive Editor Rachel Wetzler and editor Daniel Wenger will be co-editors (Michaela Towfighi/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NYT's Zach Seward details the "Manosphere Report", an in-house LLM-powered tool that summarizes new episodes from about 80 podcasts with largely male audiences (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Q&A with Washington Post sports reporter Les Carpenter, who chose to keep covering the Winter Olympics for the outlet after receiving his layoff news in Milan (Ivan L. Nagy/CJR) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A look at Kari Lake's 11 months as US Agency for Global Media de facto head, as she wasted money and blocked work to bring reliable news to repressive countries (The Atlantic) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted "leftist outlets" and suppressed conservative ones (Michael Acton/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

In court docs, celebs and public figures targeted by a web of reputation-smearing sites blame a publicist, a digital fixer, and a well-known Hollywood lawyer (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Survey: 80% of Americans say being informed about the news is essential to voting, but only 8% say people in the US have a responsibility to pay for news (Pew Research Center) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A private investigator says the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday remained his "best customers" for two years after his 2005 conviction for disclosing private info (Michael Savage/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Cable TV networks canceling daytime talk show staples The Kelly Clarkson Show and Sherri show how they are now struggling to compete with video podcasts (The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An interview with Dave Jorgenson, who launched WaPo's TikTok channel in 2019, about taking WaPo's video audience with him, launching long-form content, and more (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Local efforts to keep the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette operating appear to have stalled; one potential buyer blames owner Block's unwillingness to speak with buyers (Andy Sheehan/CBS News) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with "Dear Algo" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Courier expands to nine more US states, bringing the progressive news network to 20 states, and says it has 104 employees, mostly working at local news outlets (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Fox-owned podcasting company Red Seat Ventures acquires subscription monetization company Supercast, as it ramps up its podcasting efforts (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

BBC Studios promotes BritBox President Robert Schildhouse to CEO of the newly-renamed BBC Studios DTC business, which runs multiple streamers outside the UK (Max Goldbart/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: 11 CBS Evening News employees, or about 25% of the staffers eligible for buyouts, have chosen the option ahead of impending layoffs (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are "grave and sometimes preposterous" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An Indian court sentences journalist Ravi Nair to one year in jail for his social media posts on the Adani Group, calling the posts unverified and defamatory (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sky and Disney sign multiyear deal to offer Disney+ to Sky customers in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost, and Sky will bundle HBO Max, Netflix, and Hayu (K.J. Yossman/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Newspaper publishers relying on the US Postal Service for delivery say widespread and sometimes extreme delays are damaging their businesses (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: E.W. Scripps sent layoff notices to dozens of Court TV staff after it sold the channel to Jellysmack; Court TV's linear feed will shut down on March 11 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a student threatened with deportation after co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025 (Selome Hailu/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: activist investor Ancora Holdings has built a roughly $200M stake in WBD and is planning to oppose the Netflix-WBD deal, favoring a deal with Paramount (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor (Amanda Meade/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Anna Wintour and Vogue's new US head of editorial content, Chloe Malle, hold a joint video interview ahead of the release of Malle's first print issue (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

At a US Senate hearing on ownership caps for local TV stations, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy opposed lifting the cap, while NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt supported the move (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

YouTuber Markiplier's self-funded horror film Iron Lung debuted at No. 2 at the US box office with $22M after a fan campaign helped land it on 2,500 screens (Megan Farokhmanesh/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Britney Spears sold her music catalog and other rights to Primary Wave, in a deal estimated to be "in the ballpark" of $200M (TMZ.com) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Jeff Bezos who bought WaPo in 2013 is not the same one allowing its destruction now, and he has ended the myth that a tech billionaire could save journalism (Tina Brown/FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service (The Information) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Tim Davie says the UK Foreign Office's deal with the BBC World Service ends in seven weeks; the office contributed £137M to the service's £400M funding in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

UK's Reach plans to close two of its three remaining printing plants to focus on digital, even as £194.1M out of its H1 2025 revenue of £256M came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Washington Post's February 10 print edition featured two full pages of AP stories in the A section and a total of eight stories from the wire service (John Kelly/@johnkelly) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Turning Point USA added 900K followers on YouTube between February 2 and February 9, the day after it hosted an "alternate" Super Bowl halftime show (Kyle Tharp/@kylewilsontharp) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The European Publishers Council files an EU antitrust complaint against Google over AI Overviews, for "using its market power" to take content without consent (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Candle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

India tightens its rules on social media content, especially for AI-generated and manipulated material, giving platforms three hours to comply with takedowns (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a "ticking fee" worth ~$650M/quarter if the deal isn't closed by year-end and offers to fund WBD's $2.8B Netflix breakup fee (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and plans to build AI world models (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sports journalists at Italy's state broadcaster Rai stage protests over blunders by sports director Paolo Petrecca during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony (Angela Giuffrida/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Independent names Barney Henderson, Newsweek's publishing director, as UK editor and Jacqui Merrington, Mail Metro Media's AI director, as executive editor (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Russian media: Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max "super app" (Deana Kjuka/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink