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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer — The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer “significant costs, risks and uncertainties” compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix
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Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD board chair indicates WBD remains open to a Paramount acquisition, saying David Ellison “stepped up to the table” but “ultimately didn't raise the price” — WBD board chair Samuel Di Piazza Jr. is doing his negotiating through the TV media.
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Business Insider, Screen, Media Play News, Vanity Fair, NBC News, Front Office Sports, Reuters, CBS News and Mediaite
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Semafor raised $30M at a $330M valuation after generating $2M in EBITDA in 2025, its first profitable year, and plans to expand its annual CEO gathering in DC — The digital media outlet, which aims to inform the ‘global leadership class,’ plans to expand its events business and add journalists
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Tony Dokoupil's CBS Evening News debut left some staffers embarrassed and alarmed over the chaotic on-air rollout and MAGA-friendly editorial choices — On Tuesday evening, newly installed “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil closed out just his second official broadcast with a surreal segment …
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Jazz Tangcay / Variety:
NLRB: DreamWorks remote workers, Netflix animation production workers, and “Ted” production workers vote to unionize with the Animation Guild and Editors Guild — DreamWorks Animation (DWA) remote workers across the United States, feature production workers at Netflix Animation Studios …
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The Wrap, @scribblechris.bsky.social, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Washington Post:
The new Pentagon press corps, comprising many right-wing influencers, had no scoops about the Venezuela raid, choosing to praise the event instead of probing it — Newfound access hasn't provided more information to the largely right-wing press corps that signed the Defense Department's media rules.
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@scottnover, @scottnover.bsky.social and @drewharwell.com
Carolina Abbott Galvão / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with John Cusack, a longtime press freedom advocate, on how FOIA-based reporting shouldn't be behind paywalls and how walls hurt those most affected by news — The movie star says that by selling their public-records-based reporting, news outlets are compromising one of journalism's essential civic roles.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Apptopia and Similarweb: Conservative news apps have seen little to no growth in downloads and web traffic over the past two years, as infighting splinters MAGA — Most major conservative news apps have seen little to no growth in monthly traffic or app downloads over the past one to two years …
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@aaronrosspowell.com and Simon Owens's Media Newsletter
Elizabeth Hernandez / Denver Post:
After its domain registration expired, the student news outlet at the University of Colorado Boulder was plagued by a copycat site using AI to create content — Copycat websites increasingly common amid rise of artificial intelligence, CU Independent's attorney says
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House debuts a website to revise the history of January 6, with false claims blaming police for fomenting the attack and calling Mike Pence a coward — The website appeared to be a way to counter what has been a daylong commemoration at the Capitol, featuring primarily Democrats …
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Deadline:
Deadline names Nellie Andreeva, its current Co-Editor-In-Chief and head of the TV department, as sole EIC; Mike Fleming Jr. will become Editor-at-Large — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline's current Co-Editor-In-Chief and head of the TV department, has been named sole Editor-in-Chief.
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The Ankler, The Wrap, @deadline and @maxwelltani, more at Techmeme »
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Polymarket agrees to supply Dow Jones outlets like the WSJ and Barron's with prediction market trading data for online and in print, its first media partnership — Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges …
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