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7:55 AM ET, September 11, 2025

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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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Deseret News:
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA influencer who founded Turning Point USA, has died after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University  —  In what Utah's governor called a political assassination, a sniper shot and killed influential conservative Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem …
Discussion: @realDonaldTrump …, Mother Jones, Salt Lake Tribune, Associated Press, Salt Lake Tribune, BBC, Mediaite, New York Times, WJXX-TV, The Sun, NPR, The Tab, Axios, The Daily Sceptic, People, The Free Press, Punchbowl News, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Reuters, NBC News, The Independent, Sky News, New York Post, The Guardian, Daily Star, Mirror, The Stanford Review, CNN, KSTP-TV, 9News, @parkermolloy.com, The Moderate Voice, @alliegata.bsky.social, NewsNation, Washington Examiner, @brianstelter, @bulwarkonline, GB News, @thebushcenter, @jeremymbarr, Daily Mail, Blaze Media, @yashar, @daveweigel, Breitbart, @ilschoolwatch.bsky.social, @scottnover, @benkesslen, @willsommer, Newsweek, Status, Time, Utah Political Watch, @bakari_sellers, @bobameals, @jamellebouie.net, Winnipeg Free Press, @juliannemcshane.bsky.social, @josh_wingrove, The Hill, One America News Network, The Gateway Pundit, @monteiro.bsky.social, The Daily Caller, Brownstone Institute, PinkNews, WTTG-TV, @paleofuture.bsky.social, Wisconsin Examiner, American Prospect, Tampa Free Press, The Nation, masslive.com, Wired, Salon, @dudiligence.bsky.social, Richard Hanania's Newsletter, National Enquirer, The San Francisco Standard, Yahoo Finance, NOTUS, Semafor, TMZ.com, NewsMax.com, UPI, @lcv.org, The Federalist, Truthout, 24sight News, Inside Radio, them., IJR, New York Daily News, The 19th, Forbes, TVLine, @ilhanmn.bsky.social, The Kyiv Independent, Boston.com, Sandra Rose, The Verge, MPR News, @samshirazi.bsky.social, The i Paper, RedState, Gizmodo, Full Feed, ABC News, Washington Post, The US Sun, Townhall, al.com, Oregonian, The Cut, KRON4, WPXI-TV, Patterico's Pontifications, The Korea Herald, Just Jared and CNBC
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  —  Two days ago, feminist news and opinion site Jezebel ran a story with the headline, “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.”
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
Lauren Fedor / Financial Times:
The BBC, CBC, DW, and 100+ other news organizations sign an open letter calling on the Trump administration to scrap plans to restrict journalist visas  —  News organisations say proposed changes would enable ‘powerful adversaries’ to ‘fill the resulting vacuum’
Discussion: ebu.ch and JURISTnews
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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 …
Discussion: KSTP-TV
New York Times:
Sources: Paramount is considering giving Bari Weiss the title of editor-in-chief or co-president of CBS News, as part of a broader deal to buy The Free Press  —  The talks with Ms. Weiss, a founder of The Free Press, are the strongest sign yet that the new owner of CBS News intends to make major changes.
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says he expects the planned separation of the company to be completed by April 2026  —  It's the most specific executives have been as to a timeline.  The split of streaming and studios from global networks was anticipated to fall in the first half of the year.
New York Times:
President Trump signs a memorandum seeking to reinstate a pre-1997 policy that would sharply restrict prescription drug advertising on TV and social media  —  The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV.  That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Hearst will own major news outlets in Texas's four largest metropolitan areas with its Dallas Morning News purchase, pending a September 23 shareholder vote  —  With its purchase of the Dallas Morning News, the 138-year-old company is set to own all the largest newspapers in Texas
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  —  Streamer spend on British TV shows comfortably topped $1B last year, according to Pact's latest census, with chief John McVay rowing in behind the American giants …
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  —  When Google became the dominant search engine around 2004, not everyone was happy.
Discussion: JD Supra, MediaPost and Adweek
Lesley Goldberg / The Ankler:
Netflix's 10-year worldwide exclusive licensing deals for original shows like House of Cards are starting to expire, allowing studios to reclaim and resell them  —  ‘House of Cards,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and 130+ shows are set to hit the market as FASTs, rival streamers and yes, cable, muscle in
Discussion: TVNewsCheck and Deadline
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Reddit launches free tools for publishers as part of Reddit Pro, to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in  —  Reddit on Wednesday launched a set of free tools for publishers to track their article performance and receive suggestions …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount hires Meta's Dane Glasgow as chief product officer, reporting directly to CEO David Ellison; Glasgow is Facebook's former VP of product management
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it will comply with South Dakota's and Wyoming's age-verification laws, which currently strike “the right balance”, after exiting Mississippi
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News cancels MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz, the last media criticism show on TV after CNN's Reliable Sources was canceled; Kurtz will remain with the network
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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Sources: UK-based The Observer cuts casual staff, changes its production days, and significantly reduces pagination, following its sale to Tortoise in April
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping
The Guardian:
Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

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

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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