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12:05 AM ET, February 6, 2025

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr releases the CBS Harris transcript and seeks comment on a complaint about a CBS station; commissioner Anna Gomez calls the moves reckless  —  The complete interview, which is at the center of a lawsuit filed by President Trump, shows that “60 Minutes” aired a concise version of Ms. Harris's answer on Israel.
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CBS News:
60 Minutes publishes transcripts and video from its interview with VP Kamala Harris that the FCC requested, as the agency reviews the Paramount-Skydance merger  —  We are posting the same transcripts and videos of our interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that we provided to the FCC.
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The New York Times Company:   The NYT reports Q4 revenue up 7.5% YoY to $726.6M, subscription revenue up 16% YoY to $334.9M, and operating profit up 13.6% YoY to $146.6M
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bob Iger says an ESPN streaming service will have “some form of betting and fantasy and a high degree of customization” at its fall 2025 launch  —  Disney wants to make ESPN's content as accessible as possible.  —  Disney wants to make ESPN's content as accessible as possible.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
In Q1, Disney+ lost a net 700,000 customers worldwide while Hulu gained 1.6M, and operating income hit $312M, up from a $224M loss in Q1 2024, driven by Moana 2
Axios:
WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt, answering claims that USAID spent millions on Politico subscriptions, says DOGE will cancel $8M in Politico subscriptions  —  - Right-wing personalities are using USAspending.gov to dig up more payments from the government to media organizations …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Burnie Burns, a co-founder of online video pioneer Rooster Teeth, says his company, Box Canyon Productions, acquired the Rooster Teeth brand and assets from WBD  —  “I am excited at the challenge of bringing Rooster Teeth back to its roots,” Burns said in a statement.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI is expected to air its first TV ad during Sunday's Super Bowl; MediaRadar: AI companies spent $332M on ads in 2024, over double their 2023 spend  —  The TV spot marks the artificial-intelligence company's biggest foray into consumer advertising to date
Ernie Smith / Tedium:
WBD has released more than 30 movies on YouTube for free across five channels over the past month, apparently without DRM; some are gems, some are stinkers  —  A major studio is apparently treating YouTube as a place to drop some of its archive films that have lost their cinematic luster.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Lara Trump will begin hosting a weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22; there is no precedent for a sitting president's relative to host a show on a major channel  —  There is no precedent for a sitting president's relative to host a show on a major television news channel.
Kyle Buchanan / New York Times:
How online Oscar scandals have caught awards strategists who once influenced via whisper campaigns flat-footed, as Netflix struggles to deal with Emilia Pérez  —  As Karla Sofía Gascón's resurfaced social media posts upend the campaign for the year's most-nominated film, what happens now?
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Trump shutting down USAID, which boasted in recent years of supporting 6,000+ journalists and 700 newsrooms in 30+ countries, affects journalism globally  —  What the aid funding freeze means for independent journalism around the world.  —  Over the weekend, amid spiraling headlines …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The foreperson of the Florida jury that found CNN defamed a US Navy veteran says she would've awarded ~$100M, not $5M, and the “public is fed up with fake news”  —  In a Florida courtroom last month, a plaintiff's attorney asked jurors to “send a message” by holding CNN accountable …
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Liam Reilly / CNN:
As Trump and Elon Musk remake the federal government, traffic surges at Government Executive and other small outlets that specialize in the federal workforce  —  As President Trump and Elon Musk remake the federal government through firings, orders and brute force, small news publishers …
 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

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The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges

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US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities
 
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