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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Stephen Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico draws 7M+ views, after it was posted on Monday, bypassing TV restrictions — Stephen Colbert alleged that President Trump's talk show directive kept his interview with a Texas Democratic Senate candidate off CBS airwaves …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Brendan Carr confirms FCC is investigating The View for potentially violating its equal-time rule and says he was “highly entertained” by the Colbert/CBS drama — Brendan Carr also said the media should be “ashamed” for running claims that the FCC blocked James Talarico's “Late Show” interview
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules
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Pranav Baskar / New York Times:
Journalists say an AP reporter and three other journalists were detained in Cameroon while probing a secretive US program that deports migrants to Cameroon — An Associated Press reporter was beaten and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sony sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining Netflix, Paramount, WBD, and Disney in condemning the model's AI-generated copyright infringement — Sony Pictures has joined the outcry against Seedance 2., the Chinese video platform that has united Hollywood studios …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying “forensic evidence” shows “unauthorized derivative works”
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says, “We're going to be moving forward” with Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna, a merger that requires lifting the station ownership cap — The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday he supports Nexstar's proposed $3.54 billion acquisition …
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ has summoned some of the largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale of WBD — The US Justice Department has summoned some of the country's largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale …
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Benzinga, Economic news, Reuters and CBS News
The Wrap:
UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on “the future of journalism”, following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled — The CBS News editor-in-chief's Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture will be rescheduled at an unspecified date, an individual with knowledge of the event tells TheWrap
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one — Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts refocuses the audio medium on visuals — Welcome back to Soundbite.
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Barb: 54% of all YouTube viewing in the UK is on a TV set across all demographics, making the streaming platform a “significant part of the UK's AV ecosystem” — According to the report, published today, while almost half of YouTube viewing is on smartphones, tablets and laptops, 54% is on a TV set across all demographics.
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The Guardian, Advanced Television and Broadband TV News
Hazel Gandhi / Rest of World:
Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English — And Indonesian creators are leading the charge. — Facebook's new content monetization program is booming …
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:
An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the For You feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions — The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found. — In case you had any doubt …
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Rob Tornoe / Editor and Publisher:
Q&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession — Walt Handelsman reflects on retirement and the collapse of staff editorial cartooning — In 1987, Walt Handelsman sat …
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