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4:20 AM ET, September 2, 2025

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Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023  —  The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:   Maoyan: China's 2025 summer box office hit $1.67B, up 2.7% YoY; average ticket prices fell to $5.04, driven by reduced distribution fees and ticket subsidies
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
Walmart+ will add free access to Peacock Premium on September 15, letting members pick between Peacock Premium and Paramount+ Essential and switch every 90 days  —  Walmart Inc. is adding a new streaming perk for its paid membership program, the latest effort to beef up offerings and entice more users.
Sebastian Modak / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs  —  Thanks to Radio Garden's explorable map, armchair travelers can stream radio stations from across the world.  Tuning in can feel a whole lot like traveling.
Max Tani / Semafor:
NYT began bundling its digital subscription with The Economist in the UK earlier in 2025; the bundled price is less than an annual digital sub to The Economist  —  The New York Times has begun bundling its digital subscription with The Economist, a demonstration of the paper's increasing willingness …
Joe Drape / New York Times:
Fox embraces horse racing, broadcasting 900+ hours of New York racing on Fox Sports, and invests in betting platform NYRA Bets to capitalize on a betting boom  —  Fox's Saturday broadcasts of Saratoga horse races have averaged 501,000 viewers, more than the National Hockey League's regular season …
Alison Main / CNN:
Charles Bierbauer, a former CNN correspondent and White House Correspondents' Association president from 1991 to 1992, has died at the age of 83  —  Former CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer has died, his family announced on Sunday.  He was 83 years old.  —  Bierbauer retired from CNN …
Joshua Rothman / New Yorker:
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression  —  We're used to algorithms guiding our choices.  When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?
Matt Alt / New Yorker:
A profile of Weekly Shōnen Jump, Japan's top manga magazine and home to Naruto, which has created a formula for generating hit franchises from young talent  —  The magazine, home to such series as “Naruto” and “One Piece,” has created a formula for coaxing hit franchises out of young talents.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
An interview with John Malone on his upcoming memoir, CNN being an “anti-Trump news service”, advising David Zaslav on his compensation package, and more  —  John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century.  In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought.
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Live podcast events are becoming a major revenue source for shows like Kill Tony, which has grossed $11M+ from live events over the past two years, per Pollstar
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
An interview with Independent Studio's Head of Content Al Brown, who expects podcasts and video to eventually become The Independent's biggest revenue source
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Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters:
TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia, citing “increasing violence in protests” over lawmakers' pay
Chip Reid / CBS News:
Mark Knoller, a former CBS News White House correspondent known for keeping meticulous records of every presidential act, dies at the age of 73
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Kari Lake says the USAGM sent layoff notices to 532 VOA employees, leaving ~100 staffers still employed; Lake had to rescind a previous layoff effort in June
 

 
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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

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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