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5:40 AM ET, January 20, 2026

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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A profile of Bari Weiss and an in-depth look at her hostile takeover of CBS News; a source says Weiss has said she is pursuing a “de-Baathification of CBS”  —  The network's new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself …
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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 …
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.
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” …
Jack Dunn / Variety:
On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones  —  Matt Damon and Ben Affleck recently appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” to promote their new Netflix film “The Rip,” …
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  —  A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta's Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk's X on mobile devices.
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Study: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M+ US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B  —  The local television broadcast industry saw another year of strong contributions to the American economy, with more than 1.5 million jobs supported …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March  —  The two companies are planning to form a new joint venture that will carry the ‘Sony’ and ‘Bravia’ branding.
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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
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Saahil Desai / The Atlantic:
As news outlets treat prediction markets like news, especially heading into US elections, every dip and swing in the odds may end up wildly misleading people  —  Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?  —  For the past week, I've found myself playing the same 23-second CNN clip on repeat.
Reuters:
A UK privacy lawsuit by Prince Harry, Elton John, and others against Associated Newspapers begins, with allegations of phone hacking and illicit data collection  —  Prince Harry, Elton John and other public figures were victims of systematic phone hacking and other unlawful acts …
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Q&A with Josh Sternberg, executive editor at Morning Brew, about leading Morning Brew's editorial strategy, the ever-changing media landscape, and more
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
India's JioHotstar restructures its subscriptions, adding monthly options and raising prices on some tiers, in response to a shift toward large-screen viewing
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
 

 
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

Cade Metz / New York Times:
Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation

Anthropic:
Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior
 
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