Ryan Dohrn, the CEO of Niche Media, feels many media salespeople are misusing artificial intelligence, Editor & Publisher reports. “They’re using it as a search engine,” Dohrn says. “That’s what most people are doing wrong. They’ve tried to replace Google Search with ChatGPT, and it is a tremendous waste of time because you’re not utilizing the tools really for what they’re designed for.”

Roblox has named youth marketing tech platform SuperAwesome as its commercial and technology partner for “under 13 contextual advertising,” Games Industry reports. The arrangement will ensure brand-safe advertising on the platform for all ages, also across Roblox Kids and Select modes. "Together, we have the opportunity to help brands engage with kids and tweens responsibly and transparently, while funding high-quality content and supporting creators with improved ad revenue,” says Kate O'Loughlin, CEO of SuperAwesome.

Bloomberg Media has formed a partnership with Cision to expand access to its journalism within CisionOne, Cision's media intelligence platform, Market Screener reports. This will allow Bloomberg.com Group Subscribers to view and engage with Bloomberg reporting alongside the platform tools they now use to track news. In addition, enterprise communications teams gain easier access to Bloomberg’s financial and business reporting. 

The Trade Desk has confirmed a report in AdWeek that Anders Mortensen has left his post as chief revenue officer after seven months with the company. The firm has no immediate plans to fill the slot, and will instead hire additional vice president senior vice president-level managers under Chief Operating Officer Vivek Kundra.

Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, who was fired last week, charged that Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of the program, “didn’t know anything about us, didn’t know anything about our culture, and yet was being imposed on us as our new leader,” in an interview in The New York Times. Pelley also said: “There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.”

NJ PBS and its four broadcast stations will be housed at Montclair State University’s Center for Cooperative Media, pending approval of the agreement by the New Jersey  legislature, Media Nation reports. In addition, the Spotlight, a website that merged with NJ PBS in 2018m would also be saved. “At a time when local journalism faces growing challenges, today’s action keeps this essential service alive in New Jersey,” said Gov. Mikie Sherrill in a statement. 

Warner Bros. Discovery stock fell by 3% on Friday following a Reuters report that several U.S. states plan to file a lawsuit to block the $110 billion acquisition of the firm by Paramount Skydance, TIKR reports. And Paramount shares fell by 4.3%. California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing the idea of suing based on what he alleges is the Trump administration’s “abdication” of federal antitrust enforcement, and filing of the suit is expected in the coming weeks.

CBS News management has reached out to the three remaining full-time "60 Minutes" correspondents — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim — following the firing of Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, the Guardian reports. And staffers wonder how the show will be reconstituted. “It is not going to look like ’60 Minutes’ in the fall,” one said. Another commented that the departures created a “deep, deep wound.”    

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sued the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), charging that it blocked three PETA ads on the system because of a rule that prohibits “advertisements intended to influence members of the public regarding an issue on which there are varying opinions.” The complaint states, “For reasons unknown to PETA, but that seem to only be explicable as stemming from a deeply held ideological bias against what it perceives as PETA's underlying mission WMATA, under the leadership of Defendant Randy Clarke, appears to have instituted a blanket ban on any ads from PETA.”

Dow Jones advised staffers this week that it plans to merge Publishing Editors and Platform Editors into “a single multiskilled digital production department,” Talking Biz News reports based on input from the IAPE union. The company also plans to reduce staff by ten positions and is inviting editors to volunteer for layoffs. Four members from Global Business Operations were cut. One layoff recipient told the union, “It was striking to see the number of highly qualified, deeply capable, and long-tenured women on the list.”