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Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely — In the spring of 2016, two years after Jeff Bezos acquired The Washington Post, the billionaire joined then-executive editor Marty Baron for an interview.
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New York Times:
Sources: WaPo is reversing course on its plans not to send any sports staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in Italy and now expects to send four journalists — The newspaper will send a small team of reporters to cover the Olympics after it informed sports journalists on Friday that the paper would not send a group.
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The Detroit News:
USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately — USA TODAY Co., owner of the Detroit Free Press, will acquire The Detroit News and continue to publish it separately, it announced Monday.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Bari Weiss plans to announce new CBS contributors, including existing Free Press writers like conservative historian Niall Ferguson, at an all-hands — CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss will announce a slate of new contributors for the network on Tuesday during an all-hands meeting with staff, sources told Axios.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
SEC filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is “reallocating resources” to AI teams — - CNBC Councils — Join the CNBC Panel — News Tips — Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Source: BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team launched in 2013 to focus on social media, impacting four jobs, part of broader cuts — Deadline hears that the British national broadcaster is closing four jobs as part of the cost-cutting decision …
Katarina Hoije / Bloomberg:
Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version — Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partnered with Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd. to transform his 360 million social-media followers into a commercial venture.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover — UpScrolled is a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text, and it aims to remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas.
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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state laws by censoring content critical of President Trump
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Despite a $500M federal funding cut, the US public media remains largely intact, as donations are estimated to have grown by ~$300M YoY, with new donors up 84% — Things looked bleak last summer for KCAW, a tiny public radio station serving the remote community of Sitka, Alaska (population 8,393).
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Tim Isgitt on LinkedIn and @benmullin.bsky.social
Elizabeth H. Hughes / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Philadelphia Inquirer had an operating profit of several million in 2025, with its first YoY revenue growth since 2004; 70% of revenue is from readers — The news that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will soon cease publishing has, justifiably, sounded alarms across the media landscape.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at Plucky Wire, a website for local newsrooms to find and share stories with each other for republication; it is now being used by over 200 publishers — Plucky Wire was incubated in an unlikely place for a journalism technology: the tiny Granite State News Collaborative.
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@torenceli, Johnny Bassett on LinkedIn, @tongli.bsky.social and @sarahscire.com
Washington Post:
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec — In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.
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New York Times and @emilyflitter.bsky.social, more at Techmeme »
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Disney's Zootopia 2 grossed $624.6M in China through January 25, nearly as much as every other Hollywood movie released in the country in 2025 combined — The animated sequel outgrossed ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ to become Disney's top film release of 2025 — Walt Disney Animation Studios …
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