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WBD adds Anton Levy, former co-president of PE firm General Atlantic, to its board, a source says due to pressure from activist shareholder Sessa Capital — Warner Bros. Discovery is expanding its board following pressure from an activist shareholder, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo hires Josh Line, who was most recently Paramount Global's chief brand officer, as its CMO to revive its brand as “one of the OGs of the internet” — Internet pioneer names Josh Line, who was previously Paramount Global's chief brand officer, to reinvigorate its once-towering brand
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Ad Age, MediaPost, Rob Wilk on LinkedIn, The Drum, @michaelmartinez.co, The Desk, Adweek and Variety
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Newsmax shares jumped as much as 667% in their NYSE debut after raising $75M in its IPO — The stock traded at $62.27 each at 12:07 p.m. in New York, in a debut that saw shares repeatedly halted for volatility. The company raised $75 million in the offering, selling 7.5 million shares for $10 apiece.
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Yahoo Finance, @julianklymochko, Deadline, @stockmktnewz, Forbes, @newsmax, @amitisinvesting, @morningbrew, CNBC, The Wrap, The Desk, @claytravis, Barron's Online, CBS News, Variety, Fast Company and @brianstelter
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company — Reach CEO Jim Mullen is stepping down after six years with immediate effect. — Mullen will be succeeded as Reach CEO by Piers North, currently chief revenue officer.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers — France's antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology company asks …
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@tek@freeradical.zone, Ars Technica, The Information, UPI, 9to5Mac, The Korea Times, Reuters, Hindustan Times and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC Sports hires Betsy Riley, an NBC Sports veteran who recently led some Amazon sports offerings, to oversee production of its primetime Olympics program — Looks like NBC's new pop-culture primetime Olympics show is becoming permanent. — NBC Sports said Monday that it had lured Betsy Riley …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” — The BBC faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” in the year to come, the corporation's Annual Plan setting out priorities for the next 12 months has said.
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Advanced Television, WORLD SCREEN and The Hollywood Reporter
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Center for Public Integrity has ceased publishing after 36 years, and is in talks to turn over its archives to the Project on Government Oversight — Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.
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@margotsusca.bsky.social
J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
WBD's Max quietly launches a new logo with a monochrome color palette that evokes the longtime HBO branding, ditching its shiny blue UI — It's not HBO, it's Max — but the new standalone logo for Warner Bros. Discovery's streamer now certainly looks like HBO's at a glance.
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The Streamable, @michaelcollado, @michaelcollado, @badgraphix, The Verge, @jimlokay.com, WORLD SCREEN, Media Play News and Cord Cutters News
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban, who has acquired 92 community newspapers across the US with the goal of revitalizing local journalism — An entrepreneur who owns 92 local newspapers confronts tariffs, distrust of print outlets and changing news diets
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Cord Cutters News, TVNewsCheck, @sarahscire and @benjamintoff.bsky.social
Yuki Furukawa / Bloomberg:
An independent investigation finds that Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV fostered a culture of sexual harassment; its chair and TV head resigned in January 2025 — An external committee said on Monday it found evidence that former J-pop idol Masahiro Nakai, who used to be one of Japan's …
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Nikkei Asia, Associated Press, The Japan Times, The Japan Times, Bloomberg and Kyodo News+
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Daily Wire's communications chief, Alyssa Cordova, departs as the company frames co-CEO Jeremy Boreing's demotion as his own choice and lays off some staff — The Daily Wire's Woes The Daily Wire once vowed to take on Disney with a $100 million+ investment to build an entertainment empire …
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@status.news and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 36% of Americans say they hear a lot about Trump's relationship with the media, down from 72% in 2017; 71% follow Trump administration news closely — Far fewer are hearing about the administration's relationship with the media than was the case early in Trump's first term
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