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4:05 AM ET, January 19, 2026

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Washington Post:
CBS airs 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, which Bari Weiss shelved in December as it lacked an on-camera interview with a Trump official, without such an interview  —  After accusations of “corporate censorship,” CBS aired a postponed “60 Minutes” segment about the CECOT prison that was largely unchanged.
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News airs the delayed 60 Minutes CECOT segment with new introductory and closing remarks; the core of the piece was untouched  —  CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss's decision to hold the segment in December ignited a firestorm within the network  —  A “60 Minutes” segment that was held …
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media  —  In December, CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss killed a 60 Minutes segment about Venezuelan migrants being tortured in El Salvador's CECOT prison.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at David Ellison's potential proxy fight for WBD, which could be Hollywood's most explosive battle in terms of cost and public scrutiny  —  After multiple rejections, David Ellison could hit the nuclear button in his quest to wrest the studio empire from would-be-buyer Netflix.
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Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Gerry Cardinale, head of RedBird, Paramount's second-largest shareholder, as he lobbies regulators and shareholders to accept Paramount's WBD bid  —  RedBird's Gerry Cardinale will tell anyone who will listen why the hostile $77.9 billion bid is superior
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos about the $83B WBD bid, Trump's involvement in the deal, maintaining a 45-day theatrical window for WBD releases, and more
New York Times:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump would sue the network if it didn't air his interview with Tony Dokoupil unedited  —  In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Jan Philipp Burgard, Welt EIC and a top Axel Springer editor, was ousted after an investigation into inappropriate behavior toward female employees  —  Jan Philipp Burgard was one of Axel Springer's most prominent editors, overseeing its influential German broadsheet Welt.
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2  —  The Disney sequel has passed Pixar's “Inside Out 2” after eight weekends in theaters  —  After eight weekends, Disney's “Zootopia 2” …
Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026  —  $500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but says it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers
Davis Giangiulio / CNBC:
Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum to help it develop a system where AI developers pay creators for training content  —  Cloudflare is acquiring artificial intelligence data marketplace Human Native, the company said Thursday, as it expands its push …
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web

George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+

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