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9:00 AM ET, October 28, 2025

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
CNN launches its new All Access streaming subscription tier for $6.99 per month, including live channels and on-demand video, after shutting down CNN+ in 2022  —  CNN is ushering in a new era today with the launch of its All Access subscription streaming tier.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson says he plans to leave the network at the end of 2025  —  John Dickerson will leave CBS News at the end of the year, a move that will inevitably raise questions about the future direction of “CBS Evening News,” which he has been co-anchoring …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: Bari Weiss is looking to poach conservatives from other networks and met with CNN personality Scott Jennings; Weiss reportedly approached Bret Baier
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkey arrests TELE1 chief editor Merdan Yanardağ as part of an “espionage” investigation and seizes control of TELE1, which stopped broadcasting on October 24  —  Turkish authorities should release TELE1 chief editor Merdan Yanardağ and withdraw the order to assign …
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Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is leaving Paramount after closing a major film and TV deal with NBCU; he was unhappy with Paramount's new regime
Agence France-Presse:
Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban, taking effect on December 10, but warn the landmark law may be hard to enforce  —  Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.
Washington Post:
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia  —  The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Livestream marketplace Whatnot raised $225M at an $11.5B valuation, after raising $265M at a $4.97B valuation in January, taking its total funding to $968M  —  The start-up is among the biggest names in a fast-growing part of e-commerce that is effectively a kind of QVC for the TikTok era.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
In the past two weeks, at least three WaPo editorials have taken on matters in which Jeff Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake  —  A year ago, in explaining why he had blocked the publication of an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris …
Dylan Wells / Washington Post:
A look at podcasts hosted by potential 2028 US presidential candidates; Senator Ted Cruz's podcast leads with 1.8M average monthly downloads and views  —  A guide to political podcasts from potential candidates.  Not all of them are riveting.  —  When California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler says the news channel will officially rebrand from MSNBC to MS NOW on November 15, ahead of the planned spinoff into Versant  —  The rebrand of the cable news channel will take place Nov. 15, with a marketing effort launching next week.
 
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US progressives are embracing debate shows long used by conservatives, seeing the format as a more authentic alternative to “spoon-fed” political talking points
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
ICE detained British journalist Sami Hamdi on October 26 at SFO; the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it was retaliation for his criticism of Israel
 

 
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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

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”
 
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