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1:45 PM ET, December 3, 2025

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, which adds features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs  —  Spotify Wrapped is back.  After last year's widely criticized flop that included an AI podcast as its highlight …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
An interview with Olivia Nuzzi about her affair with RFK Jr., her book, and more; Nuzzi says “I did something wrong, like those ethics rules exist for a reason”  —  The author at the center of two major scandals—one roiling journalism, the other implicating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—speaks with Tim Miller.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:   Smartmatic and Fox News ask a judge to rule in their favor in a $2.7B defamation case over Fox's 2020 election claims; a ruling is expected in the coming weeks
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Economist reports revenue up 4% YoY to £170.3M in the six months to September 2025 and pre-tax profit up 28% YoY to £19.7M; a 27% stake is up for sale  —  The Economist revealed revenue and profit growth for the six months to September as potential buyers expressed interest in a 27% stake in the business.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Minho Kim / New York Times:
A November 25 notice to Congress: Kari Lake said the Trump administration plans to close VOA's six overseas news bureaus, saving $30M+, despite a judge's order  —  The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge's order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A.
Antonio Ferme / Variety:
A US federal trial of Carl Rinsch, accused of swindling Netflix out of millions when making sci-fi series White Horse, begins with an ex-Netflix exec testifying  —  “Our objective today is to figure out the nature of this project and what we must do to contain it.”
Discussion: Business Insider
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Scott Mills, the president and CEO of BET, is exiting the company after 23 years; BET's president of media sales Louis Carr will take over as CEO  —  President of media sales Louis Carr takes over the role.  —  Scott Mills, the president and CEO of BET, is exiting the company after 23 years.
Discussion: The Wrap, TVNewsCheck and Deadline
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Scottish Sun editor Gill Smith will be the next editor of The US Sun, succeeding Natalie Evans, who was the inaugural editor of The US Sun from Feb. 2020  —  Gill Smith has been named the next editor of The US Sun after leading The Scottish Sun for five years.
Reuters:
Sources: in talks with WBD, Netflix said a combination of its streaming service with HBO Max would benefit consumers by lowering the cost of a bundled offering  —  Netflix's (NFLX.O) proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery's (WBD.O) studios and streaming unit is expected to reduce streaming costs …
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Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: if Netflix wins the auction for WBD, Paramount plans to go directly to WBD shareholders to argue that Netflix's bid would face regulatory issues
Bloomberg:
Sources: Comcast is looking to merge NBCUniversal, including NBC TV, studios, and theme parks, with WBD, whose shareholders would get cash and stock
Alex Forbes-Calvin / GamesIndustry.biz:
The Observer partners with Magicave to feature the game developer's Mindset Go puzzles every Sunday in the newspaper's print edition  —  The company's Mindset Go puzzles will be appearing in the publication every Sunday  —  Game developer Magicave has partnered up with UK newspaper, The Observer.
Discussion: PocketGamer.biz
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Along with Spotify, The Joe Rogan Experience also topped Apple and YouTube's podcast charts in 2025, dominating all major platforms for the first time  —  His podcast topped Spotify's 2025 global list, released Wednesday, as well as Apple and YouTube.  —  Joe Rogan is now dominating on all podcast platforms.
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had many problems, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file  —  But the best one definitely did. … The 4K stream of the classic Lionsgate Television series for AMC Network came to HBO Max on Monday …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google's AI Mode, aiming to boost time spent on-site and counter the drop in search referrals  —  Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google's AI Mode search experience, as part of a broader partnership with Google Cloud.
 
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Amazon adds an Alexa+ feature to Fire TV that lets Prime Video users skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes
James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
After an online backlash, Amazon Prime Video removes AI-generated English and Spanish dubs that it had quietly rolled out in beta for several anime titles
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
HBO Max plans to launch in six European countries, including Italy and Germany, on January 13, leaving only the UK and Ireland left to roll out in Europe
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
A profile of India-based sports website Essentially Sports, founded in a college dorm in 2014 and now reaching 30M monthly readers and $8M+ in annual turnover
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed”
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google is conducting a small test for some Discover users, replacing original news headlines with short AI-generated ones that are sometimes misleading or inane
 Earlier Picks: 
Zac Ntim / Deadline:
Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40+ Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025
Discussion: Variety
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The first four episodes of Stranger Things 5 were the second-biggest premiere for any Netflix original series, behind only the second season of Squid Game
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CNN partners with Kalshi to use its real-time prediction data in TV, digital, and social channel reporting, on-air data tickers, analysis, and fact-checking
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US on desktop and mobile, arriving globally next week
 

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

Bloomberg:
An interview with Marcos Galperin, CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on his upcoming resignation, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the efforts to open private markets, where shares of startups like OpenAI trade, to small investors, and the opportunities and risks they bring
 
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