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Norwegian news organizations ask an Oslo court to stop Meta's new commercial terms, which they say let Meta scrape any publisher content, even paywalled (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Bob Woodward naming anonymous sources in a new book, including some who've died, raises questions about whether a promise of anonymity extends after death (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Kevin Delaney, co-founder of Quartz and Charter, has been tapped by NBC News to be head of digital content and subscription, a newly created role (Ted Johnson/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Knight and MacArthur foundations and Press Forward invest in the new Local News Impact Investment Fund, launched by Social Finance with $21M in commitments (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

E.W. Scripps begins a new round of layoffs and buyout offers ahead of its Q3 earnings report on November 6, affecting stations across the country (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Anime licensing platform AniBiz, launched in July by Crunchyroll founder Kun Gao, raised an initial $6M from TBS Group, Toei Animation, and TV Tokyo Holdings (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

AdImpact: political ad spending and reservations for the 2025-26 election cycle have reached a record $11.21B, surpassing the entire 2024 election cycle (A.J. Katz/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An Egyptian court orders news site Mada Masr closed after its EIC Lina Attalah was convicted of running it without a license and taken into custody pending bail (Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Trend Micro's TrendAI found Israeli adtech company Discover-Tech heavily targeted Starlink users in 100+ countries, likely to geolocate or surveil them (Raphael Satter/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

How Martin McDonagh maintains rare full creative and contractual control over his scripts and productions via an ongoing partnership with Searchlight Pictures (John Jurgensen/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Multiple editors report an influx of unsolicited story pitches and fact-checking inquiries from autonomous AI agents, mostly from a startup called iLands (Kate Knibbs/Wired) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Netflix hires Steve Wilson, who formerly managed partner relations at Apple Podcasts, as a consultant to oversee podcast content acquisition (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney and UK network Channel 4 strike a deal to bring Channel 4's linear channel and on-demand content to Disney+ in the UK and Ireland in early 2027 (Alex Ritman/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Lionsgate and Steven Paul's SP Media form a JV to invest in new businesses and indie film production; source: Paul is leading an investment of ~$100M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: UMG discussed going private with PE firms including Apollo Global, TPG, and Blackstone earlier this year; its stock has dropped ~29% this year (Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Daily Mail is running 12-15 GEO tests across the US, UK, and Australia to track AI citations and create bespoke branded content ahead of a 2027 launch (Jessica Davies/Digiday) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Pinterest announces the general availability of Programmatic Deals, letting buyers access its ad inventory via Amazon Ads, Google DV360, and more (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Memo: Skydance offers certain employees a voluntary buyout in a "one-time offer" and moves to a mandatory five-days-per-week in-office policy (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Reuters replaces Getty as the exclusive licensing partner for the Sky News video archive; in September, Reuters replaced Getty as the agency partner for ITN (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Instagram is testing Features, a new long-form horizontal video format of up to 90 minutes aimed at podcasters, comedians, and other creators, in the US (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Bob Woodward reveals in his upcoming memoir, Secrets, the identities of many confidential sources who provided classified info throughout his 55-year career (Craig Whitlock/Washington Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Verge plans to launch an app in 2027 as the tech outlet looks to build a more direct relationship with its audience amid a decline in website traffic (Christiana Sciaudone/A Media Operator) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

India's DNPA, with 21 member outlets like Network18 and NDTV, challenges an upcoming privacy law, arguing it threatens investigative work and exposes sources (Aditya Kalra/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: after an NYT report questioned abuse recollections in Amy Griffin's memoir, the billionaire said she would target reporter Katherine Rosman's son (Ben Smith/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Q&A with Laika CEO Travis Knight on stop-motion movie Wildwood, the studio's most technically ambitious project to date, and how AI is "theft" and "plagiarism" (Carlos Aguilar/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The BBC pays £400K to Lucie Kon, former commissioning editor at documentary strand Storyville who left in 2025, its first payout over antisemitism claims (Max Goldbart/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Hollywood studios and streamers are aggressively buying unpublished short stories for seven-figure sums, providing executives with quick reads and flexible IP (Ash Wu/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The DOJ accused a government contractor of leaking classified info to his girlfriend's Substack; excerpts suggest the writer is Capital & Empire's Aída Chávez (Daniel Trotta/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A look at Egypt's recent crackdown on the independent press, from detaining the entire Matsadaash newsroom to referring Mada Masr EIC Lina Attalah to trial (Mohamed Mandour/Committee to Protect Journalists) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Vanity Fair faces a legal conundrum over Matthew Cole's book excerpt alleging Jared Kushner's foreign ties; Condé Nast is traditionally wary of risky reporting (Natalie Korach/Status) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A look at Netflix's turbulent two weeks, as programming and engagement slumps, talent backlash, and a failed WBD bid prompted a major leadership shakeup (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Netflix users aren't opening the app on as many days a month as they did a couple of years ago, and the average user is spending less time watching (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Email: Rest of World tells donors it will "cease publishing as a standalone entity" in January 2027 as it seeks a new home; its site will stay available (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The iTunes Store is re-emerging as a venue for big pop stars, including Taylor Swift, to hawk collectibles to superfans and bolster their chart positions (Tom Matsuda/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Ex-60 Minutes EP Bill Owens, who left after clashing with CBS execs, will join YouTube journalism startup Newpress, which raised $12M led by Emerson Collective (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: A24 is seeking global partners to expand overseas; the studio's 2028 Elden Ring adaptation, with a $200M budget, is its most expensive film to date (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

With the exits of Bela Bajaria, Pamela Abdy, and Cindy Holland, very few women executives are left in greenlight positions at Hollywood studios and streamers (Rebecca Ford/Vanity Fair) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Former Fox Nation host Britt McHenry is forced to resign from her new US State Department press adviser job after being filmed in a confrontation at an NBA game (Carlos Greer/Page Six) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Comscore debuts The Score Report, a report resembling Nielsen's The Gauge, measuring the share of "TV ad exposure" for broadcast, cable, and streaming channels (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads (Shimul Sood/Android Authority) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez urges the NAB, the broadcast industry's largest lobbying group, to defend the right of TV newsrooms to report on polls (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Some ad agencies say they have taken down ads that Meta's AI automatically changed, including by adding links, language translations, and AI-generated images (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Catapult Book Group, an indie publisher founded by Elizabeth Koch and Andy Hunter in 2015, has been sold and will end operations Oct. 30, staffers were told (Natalie Chandler/Publishers Weekly) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

US Senator Marsha Blackburn raises concerns about Meta's plan to update its commercial terms, saying the terms grant sweeping scraping authority (David Shepardson/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Memo: Casey Bloys, head of Skydance's DTC streaming, restructures the unit to combine some HBO Max and Paramount+ executives' roles; Jane Wiseman is leaving (Michael Schneider/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Italian daily paper La Stampa has launched La Stampa USA, a free English-language site focusing on Italian-American communities, with seven US-based staffers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Memo: CBS News names Jon Tower as the executive producer of CBS Mornings; he joined CBS News in 2014 and has been filling in as an interim manager of the show (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink