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5:25 PM ET, November 2, 2025

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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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal  —  Can Pat McAfee help Disney prevail over YouTube TV in TV's never-ending carriage wars?  —  Disney's ESPN said it would make one …
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
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 …
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.
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.”
Matt Craig / Forbes:
A look at VideoAmp, which claims ad spending based on its data rose from $300M annually to $3B over the past three years, and is considered a real Nielsen rival  —  With viewership data underpinning $60 billion in television advertising, an industry behemoth is suddenly facing questions about whether it is …
Discussion: Awful Announcing
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 …
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.
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
FanDuel Sports plans to stream select live local NBA and NHL games on apps like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, and Prime Video for free starting in mid-November  —  A handful of games will stream for free on platforms owned by Paramount, Amazon and Samsung.
Columbia Journalism Review:
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead  —  OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.
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.
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.
Discussion: NBC News and Indiana Daily Student
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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”
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
Michelle Kim / Rest of World:
A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise
Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools
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Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social:
Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Google releases its first AI-generated ad, promoting Search's AI mode, but chooses not to include a label disclosing it was made with Veo 3 and other tools
Reuters:
Sources: Netflix is exploring a bid for WBD's studio and streaming business and has tapped investment bank Moelis & Co to evaluate a prospective offer
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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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