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Max Tani / Semafor:
After earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, President Trump was interviewed Friday for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase — The Scoop — CBS News is learning that several million dollars go a long way to healing a relationship with President Donald Trump.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with “no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us” — Disney top brass told the troops that the media company's leaders are going to continue to fight for a “fair deal” …
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Disney networks including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV after the two sides failed to reach a new carriage deal — YouTube TV customers have lost access to ABC, ESPN, and other Disney-owned channels this evening as a contract between Google and Disney failed to reach a renewal in negotiations …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
The White House says that journalists can no longer access “Upper Press” in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment — The White House on Friday announced it would no longer allow members of the media to freely access a part of the West Wing …
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Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Sources: CBS News cut two streaming shows, disbanded its Race & Culture unit, and closed its Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women — EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings — Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.
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Brianna Tucker / Washington Post:
An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story — Communications director Matt Mercer later says in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”
Lexy Perez / The Hollywood Reporter:
Both Gayle King and CBS News downplay a report that she will step down as anchor of CBS Mornings next year; King says she won't “negotiate in the media” — “What I'm hearing in the building is not what I'm reading in the press,” she said to TMZ on Friday.
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Ethan Sandweiss / Indiana Public Media:
Jim Rodenbush, Indiana University's former director of student media, is suing the school, after he was fired when he refused to pull news from the school paper — Former director of student media Jim Rodenbush is suing Indiana University for wrongful termination.
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New York Times:
Puck acquires Air Mail, the startup founded by Graydon Carter; sources: the deal values Air Mail at $16M, less than the $32M in funding it raised since 2019 — Graydon Carter, the legendary Vanity Fair editor who founded Air Mail, is leaving the company. — The check is in the mail.
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, “did serious damage to our reputation” — Ian Brunskill, an associate editor at The Times, emailed the newsroom lamenting the “humiliating” botched interview with the former New York City mayor.
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers — YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.
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