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1:44 PM ET, March 20, 2026

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a memo to CBS News staff, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce layoffs; source: cuts will affect about 6% of staff, or around 60 to 70 employees  —  CBS News announced a new round of layoffs on Friday, the latest for the news division under the network's new parent Paramount Skydance.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a memo, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce the closure of CBS News Radio on May 22 and attendant layoffs; CBS News Radio was founded in 1927  —  CBS News Radio, with origins that trace back to the founding of the network nearly a century ago, will be shut down on May 22.
The Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar says it has closed its Tegna acquisition after the DOJ and FCC approved it; CEO Perry Sook says Nexstar is grateful to Trump and the FCC's Brendan Carr  —  The megadeal is being challenged by eight states, but DOJ and FCC approval Thursday allowed the deal to close.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The FCC approves the sale of certain local broadcast TV stations from Tegna to Nexstar, granting a waiver from a cap limiting how many stations can be owned
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Eight US states, including CA, CO, and NY, sue to block Nexstar's proposed $3.54B merger with Tegna on antitrust grounds; DirecTV files a separate suit
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more  —  Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web.
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Hachette cancels the US release of the novel Shy Girl and is discontinuing its UK edition after readers claimed the author relied heavily on AI to write it  —  Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January  —  We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
The ProPublica Guild, representing ~150 employees, voted 92% in favor of a strike authorization after negotiating for over two years for its first contract  —  “Our union stands united in supporting ProPublica Guild's efforts to win a fair and just contract,” Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York, adds
Matt Grobar / Deadline:
Warner Music Group and Netflix strike a multiyear first-look deal for documentaries about WMG artists and songwriters; WMG partners with Unigram for production  —  Unigram, run by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will serve as the production arm for WMG's longform programming …
New York Times:
A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0”  —  A review of the betting market's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A study testing four AI chatbots on 2,267 news stories in English and French: ChatGPT credited news outlets 1% of the time, Gemini 6%, Grok 7%, and Claude 16%  —  “ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom.”
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
IFPI: global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY, total streaming revenue surpassed $22B, and users of paid music subscriptions reached 837M
 
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Bron Maher / A Media Operator:
The UK's Observer offers a new round of buyouts almost one year after its acquisition by Tortoise Media; ~33% of staff reportedly took the buyout offers in 2025
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks
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Rachel McDevitt / 90.5 WESA:
Pittsburgh City Paper, closed by Block Communications three months ago, is reviving under a new nonprofit, LocalMatters, with Lenfest Institute backing
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Hezbollah-tied Al-Manar TV says Mohammad Sherri, head of its political programs, was killed when an Israeli strike hit a Beirut residential building Wednesday
 

 
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Heekyong Yang / Reuters:
Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products
 
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