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12:25 PM ET, December 4, 2025

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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
The NYT sues the Pentagon in Washington, DC, arguing that the US DOD's new reporting restrictions infringed on its journalists' constitutional rights  —  The company said in a lawsuit that the Defense Department's new reporting restrictions infringed on the constitutional rights of journalists.
CNBC:
Letter: Paramount expresses concern to WBD about the “fairness and adequacy” of the sales process, accusing WBD of favoring Netflix's offer  —  Paramount Skydance is calling foul on how Warner Bros. Discovery has conducted its sale process.  —  In a letter reviewed by CNBC …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount has raised a proposed breakup fee in its WBD bid to $5B, up from a $2.1B fee; WBD would receive it if a deal is agreed to but not finalized  —  Paramount Skydance Corp. has raised the proposed breakup fee in its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. to $5 billion …
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: DOJ's Gail Slater and her senior reports have discussed plans to launch a multiyear investigation into Netflix if the company wins the WBD bid
Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Olivia Nuzzi's book American Canto is seeing slow initial sales, with the hardcover edition ranked No. 6,709 on Amazon's bestseller list as of early December 3  —  Storms  —  The news that Olivia Nuzzi had a book coming out was, in political and journalistic circles, the sensation of the fall season.
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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”
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Klaudia Jaźwińska / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Tow Center releases a tracker that monitors lawsuits, deals, grants, and other developments between news publishers and AI companies
Discussion: Press Gazette
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Internal documents: CBS News EIC Bari Weiss is scheduled to moderate a town hall with Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, set to air on December 13  —  Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
Reuters:
Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money”  —  Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia's co-founder …
Discussion: @macloo.bsky.social and Diff
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Future reports revenue down 6% YoY to £739.2M in the year to September 30, pre-tax profit down 11% to £91.9M; CEO Kevin Li Ying wants to cut its Google reliance  —  Future says it is cutting down on the correlation between page views and revenue as Google AI Overviews hit traffic.
Madison Malone Kircher / New York Times:
Spotify Wrapped's Listening Ages sparks widespread social media discussion and follows in Spotify's tradition of issuing gimmicky, loosely data-backed offerings  —  The wrinkle in this year's Spotify Wrapped release was an estimate of the user's “listening age.”  Some wore it like a badge of honor.
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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
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Condé Nast licenses its content for use across Microsoft Copilot experiences and hires Vasanth Williams as its new chief product and technology officer  —  Longtime technology executive Vasanth Williams joins the company from Major League Baseball.  —  Condé Nast named Vasanth Williams …
Emily Sundberg / Feed Me:
The New Yorker joins Substack, which it sees as a social platform for “cultivat[ing] a community of readers”; the newsletter will share one free article/week  —  “We're approaching Substack as much as a social platform as a newsletter-delivery system.”  —  ∙ Paid
Discussion: Substack
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024  —  Taiwan's interior ministry said on Thursday it would suspend access to Instagram-like Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu for one year …
Rob Waugh / Press Gazette:
MyJobQuote, a trades-booking business, includes dubious “experts” who have provided AI-generated or misinformed commentary to the UK press at least 600 times  —  A network of doubtful experts uncovered by Press Gazette has provided the British press with at least 600 pieces …
 
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Democracy for Sale:
Ex-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Comcast's board approves the spinoff of Comcast's cable TV networks and their digital platforms to create Versant Media Group, trading as VSNT as of January 5
Discussion: The Wrap and Business Wire
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
US Rep. Jamie Raskin demands CBS explain how it edited a recent Trump interview, saying Trump seems to be exercising “direct control” over editorial choices
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook, after acquiring it in 2022, part of reducing from six studios to three
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
GB News pays substantial libel damages to Islamic Relief after airing false claims that the charity sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East
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
 

 
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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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