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3:30 AM ET, January 26, 2026

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Benjamin Lindsay / The Wrap:
Memo: WaPo won't send sports staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in Italy, as it assesses financial priorities for 2026, following reports of expected layoffs  —  Managing Editor Kimi Yoshino says the decision to not send reporters to the Milano Cortina 2026 Games comes after assessing financial priorities for the year
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Foreign correspondents at WaPo send a letter to Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending layoffs, which are expected to “land hard” on international coverage  —  Update on turmoil at the Washington Post that I've been following w @BenMullin: Foreign correspondents at WaPo have sent a letter, a “collective plea,” to owner Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending staff reductions, which are expected to land hard on international coverage.
Zhiyu Luo / Los Angeles Business Journal:
California Post, a daily newspaper produced by the same company that publishes the New York Post, debuts on Monday in Southern California, led by EIC Nick Papps  —  News Corp.'s California Post will begin daily circulation in Los Angeles on Jan. 26.  —  California Post will premiere …
Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
Late-night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert criticized FCC Chair Brendan Carr for the FCC's new guidance on “equal time” rules for political candidates  —  Topline  —  Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert on Thursday night responded to the Federal …
Jack Simpson / Monocle:
The persistence of the foreign film category at the Oscars feels increasingly misplaced as foreign films and shows are now mainstream viewing due to streaming  —  Film's gilded night is drawing ever closer and today The Academy will shortlist the titles up for winning an Oscar come March.
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Sources: Ali Javanmardi, VOA's Persian-language service advisor, is accused of censoring coverage of Iran's exiled crown prince due to a personal political bias  —  Editor's note: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi's most recent call for anti-government protests.
Politico:
The 8th Circuit rejects a DOJ bid to revive rejected warrants for Don Lemon and four others whom the DOJ claims illegally entered a St. Paul church last weekend  —  Micko did authorize arrest warrants for three people whom prosecutors described as leaders of the intrusion into the church …
Dan Whateley / Business Insider:
Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as “great news”, and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses  —  - TikTok has finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US.  — The deal, a US joint venture …
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Unsealed court documents show the Trump administration revoked Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa based on her op-ed in the Tufts Daily student paper  —  Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.
Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content  —  Amazon Prime Video has more than three times the subscribers as Netflix in India, according to HSBC.
Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Source: Amazon plans to spend $35M+ on marketing Brett Ratner's Melania Trump documentary, which it paid $40M for, huge sums for the medium  —  On top of the $40 million Amazon ponied up for Brett Ratner's docu-hagiography, the studio is spending another $35 million to open it in 27 countries …
 
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A Philippine court sentenced journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio to 12 to 18 years in jail on charges that media advocates call fabricated; she is expected to appeal
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Julian Wyllie / Current:
Ohio's WBGU-TV becomes the fourth public TV station or network to end its PBS affiliation, citing 2025's rescission of federal funding
Dan Primack / Axios:
Verizon offers $10.99 credits to Fios subscribers in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Providence, RI, to cover the loss of Fox and NBC affiliates amid a dispute with Cox
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Forbes plans to launch prediction platform Forbes Predict in February; a widget next to articles will allow readers to make forecasts in exchange for tokens
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google says replacing some article headlines with AI-generated ones is now a feature in Discover, but they can be false or fail to highlight new, relevant info
Financial Times:
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid “doesn't pass the sniff test” and a “very small” number of WBD holders backed it
 

 
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Reece Rogers / Wired:
TikTok presents users in the US with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's US ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue

Jasmine Sun / @jasmine's substack:
Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great
 
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