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6:15 PM ET, September 8, 2025

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New York Times:
Lachlan Murdoch completes a deal to secure control of his family's media empire, ensuring that it remains conservative; source: the deal is valued at $3.3B  —  Lachlan Murdoch will take control of a new family trust in a deal worth $3.3 billion, ensuring that his father's media empire will retain its conservative slant.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Paramount appoints Kenneth Weinstein, former president and CEO of the conservative think tank Hudson Institute, as the ombudsman for CBS News  —  Paramount has tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, to serve as ombudsman for CBS News.
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI is providing its tools and computing resources for Critterz, a largely AI-made feature-length animated film that is set to hit theaters globally in 2026  —  The film, called ‘Critterz,’ aims to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and will leverage the startup's AI tools and resources
Glenn Garner / Deadline:
After a USTA memo, ABC appeared to mute the audience booing President Trump before the US Open Men's Final on September 7, playing music over his appearance  —  Despite the United States Tennis Association's attempt to censor the U.S. Open audience's reaction to Donald Trump's presence …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US  —  YouTube got into the game with its first exclusive NFL broadcast Sept. 5, which the platform says averaged more than 17.3 million global viewers.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said “the open web is already in rapid decline”, contradicting Google's recent statements  —  Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. … But in a court document filed by Google …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach plans a net cut of 186 staff in a major reorganization, including 321 redundancies and creating 135 new roles focused on video and a new live news network  —  More than 600 journalists across Reach nationals and regionals have been told their jobs are at risk as the publisher plans …
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern returns to SiriusXM, after trolling viewers with a joke that Andy Cohen had taken over his channel slot; rumors suggested his deal was canceled  —  “What pisses me off is now I can't leave,” Stern said Monday.  “I've been thinking about retiring, now I can't.”
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google was sued by advertising exchange PubMatic Inc., which is seeking billions of dollars over its claim …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo plans to launch a morning political newsletter this month to fill a progressive gap in a landscape dominated by Politico Playbook and others  —  The Scoop  —  Later this month, Zeteo is launching a morning political newsletter written from a progressive perspective.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya is launching Bungalow, a longform journalism project, and plans to publish ten digital editions annually  —  A seasoned journalist wants to take a new approach to longform storytelling.  —  Next week, the former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya …
 
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