Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:55 PM ET, February 25, 2026

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Rob Golum / Bloomberg:
A group of 11 state AGs, led by two Republicans, send a letter to the DOJ opposing Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD, saying it will harm consumers  —  State attorneys general led by two Republicans are raising concerns about the proposed takeover of the Warner Bros. studios by Netflix Inc., saying it will harm consumers.
RELATED:
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
WBD says Paramount's new $31-a-share offer could lead to a better deal than Netflix's, potentially triggering a four-day period for Netflix to revise its bid
Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
Source: Paramount is probing allegations that president Jeff Shell leaked details about its $7.7B deal with UFC a month before its August 2025 announcement  —  The studio has brought on an outside law firm to investigate the allegations, which have also been alerted to the SEC.
Discussion: @eriqgardner, The Wrap and Deadline
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action  —  An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Jasmine Crockett ejected an Atlantic reporter from an event and called police on a CNN reporter; the Atlantic's editor called the ejection unacceptable  —  The Scoop  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett is taking a harder line on the political journalists covering her Texas Senate campaign …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK weekly street newspaper Big Issue promotes Deputy Editor Steven MacKenzie to editor, succeeding Paul McNamee, who led the publication for 19 years  —  Weekly street newspaper Big Issue has promoted deputy editor Steven MacKenzie to editor.  —  MacKenzie will succeed Paul McNamee, who has led the publication for 19 years, in March.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk says creators on the platform are generating nearly $5M in collective annual earnings from subscriptions and its ad network  —  The CEO of Substack rival Beehiiv says the growing platform has a key philosophical difference from its more established rival.
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
A federal judge in Virginia denies the US DOJ's request to search Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's devices as part of a national security leak probe  —  A federal judge in Virginia denied the Justice Department's request to search a Washington Post reporter's devices in a national security leak probe.
Eduardo Suárez / Reuters Institute:
Q&A with Carlos Dada, founder and EIC of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, on outlet's impact, covering his country from afar while living in exile, and more  —  In this interview, he discusses his work and the challenges of reporting from exile  —  Carlos Dada is one of the most …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Bostopia's Evan George on his TikTok and Instagram videos under @bostopianews, summarizing Boston local news while offering his own opinions  —  “You don't need to pretend to [to be neutral] or be worried about [what people think].  Because now it just sounds like you're hiding things …
Discussion: @niemanlab.org
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 12:55 PM ET, February 25, 2026.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures
Michael Calderone / The Wrap:
Progressive organizations and media networks, including MeidasTouch and Courier, plan two streaming events to counter Trump's State of the Union speech
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Sources: Nexstar's WGN-TV in Chicago has laid off eight veteran reporters and anchors; the outlet has been eliminating a variety of positions for several months
 Earlier Picks: 
Tom Singleton / BBC:
The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
At a panel, Tubi MD David Salmon said “consumers candidly don't care” if content is professionally produced, creator-produced, or UGC
New York Times:
The FTC and FCC are engaging in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas by treating editorial decisions as fraud and conditioning mergers on news content
 

 
From Techmeme:

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET:
Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display feature that limits the screen legibility, an all-new agentic AI, improved night mode, more

Reuters:
Diplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services

Bloomberg:
Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page