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8:40 AM ET, November 26, 2025

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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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: Variety and TVBEurope
Bloomberg:
In interviews, 22 indie food creators say Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics on Pinterest and Facebook have decimated traffic and yielded unusable recipes  —  Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures  —  Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …
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.
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]
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.
Discussion: @niemanlab.org
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 …
Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
38 North: outside radio broadcasting to North Korea is down 85% since the start of 2025 due to the shutdown of US broadcasters and South Korean policy changes  —  For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea.
Discussion: UPI and Reuters
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ampere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend  —  Ampere Analysis forecasts a 20 percent increase by 2030.  —  If you thought you were paying a lot for your sports-TV package now, just wait until 2030.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sources: Paramount plans to distribute Brett Ratner-directed Rush Hour 4 after Trump asked it to revive the franchise; Ratner directed Amazon's Melania doc
Tyler Falk / Current:
The NPR Network revenue programs brought in $18.3M in FY25, including $9M from NPR Network donations and podcast subscriptions via NPR+, up nearly 5x YoY
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Bart Meijer / Reuters:
Dutch public broadcaster Nos quits X, citing the “amount of hateful responses and disinformation” on the site; The Guardian quit in 2024 and NPR in 2023
Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg:
Japan's 2026 Oscar entry Kokuho grosses more than $111M, breaking the country's 22-year-old box office record for a domestic live-action film
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Memo: Sydney Morning Herald Editor Bevan Shields resigns after four years to “focus on my health”, to be replaced by Chief Reporter Jordan Baker early in 2026
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Dutch author Rutger Bregman says the BBC removed his Reith Lecture claim that Trump is “the most openly corrupt” US president ever; the BBC cites “legal advice”
 

 
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Bloomberg:
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring agreement to hand control to secured lender and key Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea

Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine:
Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more

Washington Post:
How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order
 
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