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Washington Post: Internal email: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told staffers Bari Weiss pulled the CECOT segment after the Trump administration refused an interview -
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast: CBS postpones a 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison, which houses people deported by the Trump administration, just hours before it was set to air -
Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney+ subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all US net subscriber additions in 2025 -
CNN: A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics -
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives -
Paul Glynn / BBC: HarperCollins UK drops children's author and comedian David Walliams following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward young women -
Financial Times: Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing -
Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025 -
Ken Vogel / @kenvogel: Politico ends its print edition after 19 years, as its early reliance on print ad revenue fades and its audience relies more on digital platforms -
Nicholas Henriquez / New Yorker: The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilities; subscribers get unlimited access -
Karl Bode / Techdirt: The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China -
Todd Spangler / Variety: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's stake to 80% -
Blake Brittain / Reuters: Google sues data scraping company SerpApi for allegedly using hundreds of millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted material from Google products