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Axel Springer SE is a German media company publishing Bild, Welt and Politico, with interests spanning news, classifieds and digital ventures.
Axel Springer is examining proposals to make 50 to 100 Telegraph journalists redundant, the Guardian reported, months after buying the titles for £575m. With senior editors already in the US building an operation there, the cuts look like money moving from the existing newsroom to that push.
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Judge Timothy Kelly signalled he may turn his two-week order against Trump's White House ban on POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW into a longer injunction. That would keep the outlets in the West Wing through what could be months of litigation.
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NewsGuild-CWA staff at 31 USA Today Co. newsrooms want the Palantir contract ended, citing Palantir's ICE work and reader trust. The plan pools reader data to win subscribers from anonymous visitors, and it needs buy-in from the reporters whose stories bring those visitors in.
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Nextdoor has launched Neighborhood Intelligence, a map of 350,000 neighbourhoods that lets advertisers target ads by what locals are saying. It gives marketers with physical locations a finer way to split local budgets, though so far the case rests on the chief executive's word.
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Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
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The three outlets want a federal judge in Washington to declare Saturday's lockout unconstitutional, and their complaint pairs a First Amendment retaliation claim with a Fifth Amendment due process claim.
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Nicholas Thompson took The Atlantic from red ink to profit and 1.6 million subscribers. He says the early OpenAI deal has paid in cash and in enforceable limits on imitation, and that the traffic he expected did not follow.
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Chair Mike Reed disclosed an audience-data partnership on an August 6 earnings call. Within days, more than 800 NewsGuild-CWA members demanded the company end it.
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