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4:55 PM ET, July 2, 2025

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16M to settle his 60 Minutes lawsuit, stating the money will go to his future presidential library, without offering an apology  —  Paramount Global has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to end his lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WGA East, which represents CBS News writers, says the Paramount settlement is a “transparent attempt to curry favors” with Trump to get Skydance merger approved  —  The familiar tick-tick-tick of the famous stopwatch that has been part of “60 Minutes” for decades may give way to a new sound: a loud alarm.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Paramount says its settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret and 60 Minutes will release transcripts of presidential candidates in the future  —  Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, said it has agreed to pay $16 million to President Trump's foundation …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount faces a backlash for settling with Trump; Democrat FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says it “marks a dangerous precedent for the First Amendment”  —  - Journalists and others said the payoff will embolden attacks by Trump and his allies on news outlets.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Comedy Central delays the Season 27 premiere of South Park from July 9 to July 23, citing complications from the pending Paramount and Skydance merger
Todd Spangler / Variety:
George Cheeks addresses Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement, saying companies often settle to avoid “the high and somewhat unpredictable cost of legal defense”
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root  —  - Kleis declined to share the purchase price of the all-cash deal. … - “I like to trust people, and I know that people in this industry …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025  —  Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting …
Bloomberg:
Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic and ad revenue  —  Google has ended tests of a feature that would have let users open a snapshot of cooking-recipe content directly in web search results …
Jorge A. Aguilar / How-To Geek:
Amazon is shutting down its Freevee app in August, but its content will remain on Prime Video, whether or not users have a Prime subscription  —  Amazon's free streaming service with ads, Freevee, finally has a (rough) shutdown date.  The platform will officially stop working in August 2025.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024  —  The tech publication got its start as a print magazine in 1991. … Laptop Mag is shutting down after nearly 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth information about laptops and other technology.
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Kargo: ad prices fell 4.4% on FAST channels and grew 4.5% on VOD from May to June as big-name subscription services compete with FAST channels for ad dollars  —  Until recently, it seemed video streaming had a channel for every taste.  Fans of the 1970s Western drama “Little House on the Prairie …
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix has held talks with Spotify about partnering on projects such as a music awards show, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle  —  The streamer has had talks with Spotify about partnering on events  —  Netflix ascended by offering prestige TV and movies on demand for a monthly fee.
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Crunchyroll ran subtitles filled with errors and references to ChatGPT on one of its shows; the streamer had said it had no plans to use AI in programming  —  The streamer previously said it had no plans to use AI in the production of its anime programming.
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