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4:25 AM ET, April 30, 2024

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The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”  —  The entertainment company, in the midst of a sale process, has tapped Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy and George Cheeks to run Paramount on an interim basis.
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.69B and a $417M operating loss, down from $1.2B YoY; Paramount+ hit 71M+ global subscribers with revenue up 51% YoY  —  The studio unveiled its first quarter earnings amid talk of deal-making options and a CEO shake-up.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Shari Redstone agreed to take less than $2B for her Paramount stake as part of Skydance's “best and final” offer, lower than what was initially offered  —  Bob Bakish, CEO of Paramount, speaks with CNBC's David Faber on Sept. 6, 2023.  —  In what could easily be a plotline …
New York Times:
Sources: in a revised bid, Skydance offered Paramount shareholders a larger stake in the combined company and a $3B cash infusion to pay debt and buy back stock  —  The terms of the new deal would provide Paramount shareholders with an investment to pay down debt and buy back stock.
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal arises, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles  —  Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models
New York Times:
OAN retracts a story that said Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen had an affair with Stormy Daniels, apologizes as part of a settlement with no monetary damages  —  Michael D. Cohen's lawyers took on OAN over the false story.  The settlement came as right-wing news outlets face a barrage of defamation suits.
Laura Wagner / Washington Post:
Over 50 journalism professors call on the NYT to address questions on its report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in Hamas' October 7 attack  —  A major investigative report into sexual violence in the Hamas attack on Israel has drawn criticism inside and outside the newspaper
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years  —  NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer — one year after its last fee hike.
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
As News UK's TalkTV closes its linear channel and moves online, experts say the future of both of UK's broadcasting upstarts, TalkTV and GB News, is uncertain  —  TalkTV's shift to online only is a moment of reckoning for the two broadcasting upstarts  —  In April 2021, the boss …
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
In its annual report, Civil Liberties Union for Europe says media freedom is declining across the EU and “perilously close to breaking point” in some countries  —  Civil liberties network warns of decline across the bloc as a result of harm or neglect by governments
Discussion: @jeffjarvis and Politico
 
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