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Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: Netflix ramps up a charm offensive in its pitch to WBD and is sowing doubts about the inevitability of Paramount's bid from an antitrust standpoint — Netflix is ramping up a major charm offensive with Warner Bros. Discovery and US regulators as it pursues the media giant's streaming service …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD asks bidders to submit improved offers by December 1 and says it may enter a period of exclusive negotiations with one company after those bids — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the parent of HBO and CNN, has asked potential buyers to submit new, sweetened offers after receiving …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump calls the NYT an “enemy of the people” and reporter Katie Rogers “ugly, both inside and out”, after an NYT report said Trump is showing “signs of fatigue” — As Americans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, President Donald Trump took …
Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg:
Scripps adopts a poison pill shareholder rights plan to thwart an unsolicited takeover bid by Sinclair and ensure shareholders “receive appropriate value” — E.W. Scripps Co. adopted a so-called poison pill to thwart an unsolicited takeover bid by rival TV broadcast company Sinclair Inc.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube TV and TelevisaUnivision strike a deal to return TelevisaUnivision channels to YouTube TV; YouTube will launch Primetime Channels in Mexico — Nearly two months after the Spanish-language media network went dark on the service, it will return, with YouTube bringing its Primetime Channels offering to Mexico with ViX.
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Business Insider quietly lifted paywalls across most of its site after missing H1 2025 revenue targets; Similarweb: traffic fell 38% YoY in September — Earlier this month, Business Insider quietly lifted the paywall across the vast majority of its website.
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Vox Media join the Really Simple Licensing Collective AI licensing framework, which now has 50+ partners to set AI terms — More publishers have joined the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Collective AI licensing framework, designed to standardize …
@dropsitenews:
Bari Weiss says she wants CBS News to redraw “the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate”, such as elevating voices like Alan Dershowitz — Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate [video]
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
A look at Journalist.net, a global marketplace that connects 10K+ freelance journalists with clients, from major newsbrands to creators — In an age of falling foreign news budgets, a tech platform has been set up which enables any publisher to draw on a thousands-strong global newsroom.
Lucy Schiller / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at The Border Chronicle, a subscriber- and grant-supported publication that tells stories from the perspective of people living near the US-Mexico border — “Food is a topic which is like that little string on the sweater,” Pablo De La Rosa, a journalist in South Texas, told me.
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Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and just $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024 — Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a “verticalized” creation, social media and streaming service, according to investment documents obtained by Billboard.
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick
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Rose Henderson / Bloomberg:
The UK approves the £750M Marlow Studios project backed by James Cameron, overruling a 2024 local council decision to block it due to environmental concerns — A £750 million ($985 million) film studio backed by Avatar director James Cameron has been greenlit by the UK government …
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Kai Williams / Ars Technica:
In interviews, an actress, a director, and other creators describe how they are adopting or rejecting AI tools and how they view career prospects in an AI era — I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash. — In 2016, the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki …
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