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6:25 PM ET, January 2, 2026

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@cbseveningnews:
Announcing the new CBS Evening News, anchor Tony Dokoupil says people lost trust in legacy media in part due to a focus on “the analysis of academics or elites”  —  “On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.” That changes now. The new CBS Evening News [video]
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Sources: theaters earned $25M+ from Netflix's Stranger Things finale over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, selling concession vouchers in a new price strategy  —  Sources are telling us this morning that the Stranger Things finale cleared well north of $25M, possibly even $30M …
Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, music, and works of art published in 1930, including William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and sound recordings from 1925 enter the US public domain  —  On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.
Katie Campione / Deadline:
Nielsen: the most-watched Christmas NFL game was Netflix's Lions-Vikings, with 27.5M live plus same-day US viewers; Prime Video's Chiefs vs. Broncos drew 21.06M  —  The most-watched game of the holiday proved to be the mid-afternoon Lions-Vikings match up on Netflix, which secured 27.5M live + same …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality  —  Adam Mosseri says creators should prioritize “unflattering” images to prove they are real.  —  It's no secret that AI-generated …
Will Tavlin / Vulture:
A profile of Mubi, as it deals with backlash including employee dissent and subscriber and partnership cancellations over its investor Sequoia's ties to Israel  —  In July, the chef and food-media personality Eddie Huang woke up to a text message from Jason Ropell, a film executive at Mubi.
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
Hybe K-pop subsidiary Ador ends the contract of one member of NewJeans and sues her and Ador's former CEO after the group tried to leave the label in 2024  —  The lawsuit comes days after Ador terminated Danielle's contract as other members of the girl group returned following a prolonged dispute
Discussion: BBC, Billboard, New York Times and ABC
David Forbes / Trans News Network:
An interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, who says the NYT shifted to anti-trans bigotry and disinformation in about 2022, with guidance from the top  —  In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly …
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
Zootopia 2 becomes Disney Animation's highest grossing movie ever, with $1.46B at the global box office, beating Frozen 2, which made $1.45B in 2019  —  “Zootopia 2” is going down in the Disney record books.  —  The animated sequel is now Walt Disney Animation's highest-grossing movie …
New York Times:
The US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA  —  Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming.  Here's how book sales looked in 2025.
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David H. Montgomery / YouGov's The Surveyor:
Survey of 2,203 US adults: 59% say they read at least one book in 2025; readers who prefer e-books report more reading than those who prefer print or audiobooks
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A federal appeals court ruled that Top Gun: Maverick did not infringe on the copyright of a 1983 article by Ehud Yonay that inspired the original Top Gun film  —  A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the 2022 Tom Cruise blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” did not infringe a magazine article …
 
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Paramount shut down some UK MTV music channels on December 31; the main MTV channel is still on-air, despite social media claims of a global MTV shutdown
David Bauder / Associated Press:
In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of “New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash” off the air for about 12 minutes on December 31
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:
The French rightwing party UDR launches a parliamentary inquiry into the “neutrality, workings and financing” of state TV and radio amid accusations of bias
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Kay Powell / Atlanta Magazine:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which had about 75K digital-only subscribers and 40K print subscribers, ends its print edition after 157 years
Jeff Horwitz / Reuters:
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
UK's Ofcom is reviewing multiple complaints against GB News over not challenging Trump's assertions, including that climate change is “a hoax”, in an interview
Pat Saperstein / Variety:
Following Clooney's criticism, Bari Weiss invites him to “visit The CBS Broadcast Center” where she is “spending the holidays” to “relaunch the Evening News”
 

 
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Bloomberg:
xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of people, including minors, in response to X user prompts; X took some images down

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pebble unveils the Pebble Round 2, a smartwatch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199

CNBC:
Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law
 
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