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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Skydance is preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, backed by the Ellison family; WBD jumps nearly 30%  —  The majority of the planned bid for Warner will be made up of cash  —  Paramount Skydance is preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery …
Jack Dunn / Variety:
Source: MSNBC fires political analyst Matthew Dowd over his on-air comments about Charlie Kirk; MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler and Dowd apologized for them  —  Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to a network source.
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Lachlan Cartwright / Breaker:
Puck, co-founded by Jon Kelly in 2021, has agreed to acquire Graydon Carter's Air Mail; both outlets have mutual investors, including TPG  —  Another POLITICO Star Eyeing The Exits … In tonight's edition, Graydon Carter and Jon Kelly go way back to when Kelly was Carter's assistant at Vanity Fair.
Wall Street Journal:
MediaRadar: pharmaceutical industry spent $6.4B on US TV ads in 2024; drug companies may cut TV ad spend if new rules mandate the inclusion of all side effects  —  Pharmaceutical industry spending on TV ads topped $6 billion last year  —  The Trump administration is cracking …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR names Thomas Evans as its new editor-in-chief, starting September 15; Evans joined NPR in 2024 and was previously CNN's London bureau chief  —  NPR is poised to name a new news chief at a moment of uncertainty for the network, when it must adjust to the end of federal funding for public media …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Analysis: journalism's DEI efforts in the US have declined, fueled in part by the Trump administration's quashing of diversity initiatives  —  Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck.  —  In 2020, as George Floyd's killing …
Bloomberg:
China says it opposes 90-day US visa limits for Chinese journalists, compared to 240 days for others, and does not “want to see a new round of ‘media warfare’”  —  China has pushed back against Washington's proposed new visa limits on Chinese journalists in the US …
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity, alleging that it unlawfully scraped their websites and redirected their traffic to its AI summaries  —  Perplexity AI is the latest artificial intelligence company to be hit with a lawsuit by copyright holders …
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
MPA: streaming will make up $5B of $15.8B projected to be invested in video content in the Asia Pacific region in 2025, passing traditional pay-TV, a first  —  Streaming platforms will overtake traditional pay-TV as the largest source of content investment in Asia-Pacific in 2025 …
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed relaunches its flagship YouTube channel amid a broad overhaul of the company's business; pilots for new shows will launch throughout the fall  —  The channel will bring back some fan-favorite series and also have a new slate of programming, the company says
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
While traditional media avoided sharing explicit videos of Charlie Kirk's assassination, gory imagery flooded social media, including X, Instagram, and TikTok  —  They were careful with the explicit imagery — as usual.  But did it make any difference?  —  Traditional news organizations …
John Koblin / New York Times:
The differences between Severance and The Pitt in terms of budget, star power, time between seasons, and genre attest to changes in priorities for streamers  —  The Apple TV+ drama “Severance” and the HBO Max medical series “The Pitt” have only one thing in common: Both shows center on a workplace.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Jezebel adds an editor's note to its September 8 story “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk”, condemning his shooting and removing the author's name
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a “bad actor” for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Pact: streamers spent a record £850M on British TV shows in 2024, up 24% and surpassing Channel 4's annual originals budget
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