Bloomberg Media will provide content on Muck Rack, a communications platform used by public relations teams, the firms announced, Talking Biz News reports. Bloomberg.com group subscribers will now be able to access Bloomberg reporting within Muck Rack. “A Bloomberg story about a competitor, a market shift, or a breaking regulatory development is a critical piece of coverage that is something to act on,” says Greg Galant, cofounder and CEO of Muck Rack, in a statement. “Having that reporting inside the Muck Rack workflow changes how quickly and confidently teams can respond and analyze the coverage.”  

Adobe is using its LiveRamp partnership to more directly provide the commerce media segment with its GenStudio content tools, according to an analysis for investors by Yahoo Finance. The move enriches Adobe’s marketing and creative stack with a a data-centric layer, and is in sync with a broader industry push toward more targeted and automated campaigns in which AI plays a larger role.

A group of prominent conservative organizations has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests from ABC’s eight local television stations, the Guardian reports. The groups, including the Center for American Rights, accuse ABC of supporting the Chinese communist party and of political, racial and sexual bias. Earlier, FCC leader Brendan Carr required that ABC apply several years early to maintain its ability to broadcast. 

Fox News Media was the leading news publisher on YouTube and in social media during the second quarter, The Desk.net reports. It generated 1.4 billion YouTube video views, topping MS Now (763 million), CNN (511 million), ABC News (337 million), NBC News (310 million) and CBS News 9136 million). Fox said Q2 was its seventh consecutive quarter as the top-performing news brand on YouTube.

Digital Turbine's APPS advertising platform is gaining momentum in the form of increased advertiser demand, a larger publisher base and AI-driven monetization capabilities, Yahoo Finance reports. The platform connects advertisers, app developers, publishers, wireless carrier and OEMs. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, the company’s App Growth Platform revenues grew 57% year over year while brand advertising increased by more than 50%, and DT Exchange by 60%+.       

The First Amendment is a deeply cherished right, but in the last week alone, secret DOJ subpoenas came to light that have targeted reporters at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal while “simultaneously, Trump himself has threatened fresh lawsuits against ABC for its coverage of the Reflecting Pool fiasco,” Fortune reports. And the president is pursuing a $15 billion defamation lawsuit. But the media are pushing back. “Finally recognizing the mutual existential threat, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, ABC, CBS, and the American Newspaper Publishers Association joined forces to formally back the Times,” Fortune continues. 

The traditional practice of developing a creative asset and adapting it across all channels has given way to a model in which consumers interact with brands through multiple platforms, devices, formats and AI-powered experiences, Omnicom Media writes in a new study: “Connected Content: The Force Multiplier for Maximizing Brand Influence,” Portada reports. Companies now seek to align creative messaging, media context and audience mindset. 

Village Media, which began as a digital-first community news site, has evolved into a network of profitable local operations, thanks to the realization by Jeff Elgie, its founder and CEO, that this is where the audience had gone, Editor & Publisher reports. Richard Gingras, a former Google executive who is now Village Media’s board chair, heard Elgie testify before a Canadian parliamentary committee. “He said that he was in five markets and he was profitable,” Gingras said. “My eyes lit up.”

Bending Spoons -- a Milan-based tech conglomerate that has acquired several brands including, AOL and Vimeo -- went public on the Nasdaq this week, briefly reaching a market capitalization of over $25 billion, TechCrunch reports. Its focus is to make the brands more financially successful through tech and AI, and often price hikes and layoffs. Matteo Danieli, co-founder and chief product officer, said the company is “remarkably stable” despite the changes.  

Comcast’s breakup marks the close of the Hollywood era dominated by moguls like Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Sumner Redstone, John Malone and Brian L. Roberts, The Los Angeles Times writes.. “There was a time that Murdoch, Malone and Brian were really industry leaders who could affect change,” said Bank of America managing director Jessica Reif Ehrlich. “That’s not true any longer.” The shift also means that brands that offer streaming will be the winners.