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10:05 AM ET, January 8, 2026

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Mark Walker / New York Times:
Block Communications says The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will cease publication on May 3; the closure will not affect its sister newspaper, The Toledo Blade  —  The family-owned company that operates the newspaper cited mounting losses and labor constraints.  A final edition is expected on Sunday, May 3.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Post-Gazette closes in five months, leaving time for Pittsburgh institutions to react, maybe by growing a replacement or helping its owner start a nonprofit  —  One of the country's oldest newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, says it's shutting down in May. Not going digital-only — just disappearing.
Wall Street Journal:
Paramount reaffirms its commitment to its $30-per-share offer to acquire WBD and says that its analysis values Discovery Global at $0 per share  —  Warner previously said the offer wasn't ‘even comparable’ to Netflix's deal  —  Paramount Skydance continued pushing its $77.9 billion bid …
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Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ opened an in-depth review of Paramount's hostile tender offer for WBD on December 23; Netflix has said it's also talking with the DOJ and EC  —  The heated battle to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has expanded from the boardroom to the US Justice Department …
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD's 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”
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
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Disney announces it is adding vertical videos to Disney+ later this year, following the launch of ESPN's “Verts” in the ESPN app last August  —  Other new offerings include a new “brand impact” metric and a new video generation tool that helps advertisers create high-quality …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani invited dozens of “new media” figures to City Hall for a tour and private news conference while excluding legacy media outlets like NY1  —  It was a standard-issue tour of New York's City Hall, although the docent seemed smoother, and hipper, than most.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
HBO Max and RTL+ strike a bundle partnership in Germany ahead of HBO Max's local launch on January 13; RTL's Ad Alliance already handles HBO Max's ad sales  —  RTL's media sales house Ad Alliance already handles ad sales for the Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) streamer.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts “we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie” within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer  —  Roku founder, chairman and CEO Anthony Wood has some big predictions about the pending impact of generative AI on Hollywood …
Ivan L. Nagy / Columbia Journalism Review:
Experts examine the potential effects of the end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: one sees opportunity and another sees a catastrophic event  —  The parent organization of NPR and PBS, already defunded, is shutting down—and claims that's for the best.  But there are dangers ahead.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Fox is launching Fox Creator Studios to work with social content creators on multiple platforms and has made development deals with several food personalities  —  Digital-first division starts with a focus on food through deals with Gordon Ramsay and social media stars Rosanna Pansino …
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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Spotify lowers monetization eligibility for video podcasters to three episodes, 2,000 consumption hours, and 1,000 engaged audience members over a 30-day period
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Asian streaming giant Viu launches Viu Shorts, a new vertical video section for microdramas on its app, featuring episodes that are one to three minutes long
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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
 

 
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers”

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
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Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and more; Shopify merchants will be automatically enrolled
 
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