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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 …
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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.
Carmen Russell-Sluchansky / WHYY:
Penn State University plans to “wind down” public media station WPSU by June 2026 after a university board declined to transfer ownership to Philadelphia's WHYY  —  In voting down a proposal to transfer the station to WHYY, trustees expressed concern over a $17 million subsidy and wanted a commitment to hire staff.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Atlantic settled a defamation lawsuit by Ruth Shalit Barrett for $1M+, resolving a dispute over the magazine's 2020 retraction of her story on youth sports  —  The writer, Ruth Shalit Barrett, had accused the magazine of defaming her in a lengthy editor's note.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M “recurring supporters” online, up 13%  —  The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m …
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
A federal judge issues an order barring federal agents with DHS from using crowd-control weapons against journalists; the order applies to seven CA counties  —  The judge cited an “avalanche of evidence” that ICE and Border Patrol agents and L.A. police violated the rights of reporters covering protests of immigration raids.
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Rapper Wyclef Jean, now chief creative officer for OpenWav, extols the startup's tools that let musicians sell tickets, connect directly with fans, and more  —  Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, and producer Wyclef Jean says the music industry is broken, which is why he's now involved with a startup …
Chloe Mac Donnell / The Guardian:
Edward Enninful's quarterly print magazine, 72, launches with no print ads, but “powered by incredible companies”; at least seven Vogue staffers have joined 72  —  Former British Vogue editor has mined his starry contacts book for first issue of 72, with Julia Roberts on the cover
 
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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
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Analysis: journalism's DEI efforts in the US have declined, fueled in part by the Trump administration's quashing of diversity initiatives
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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
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
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
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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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