6:45 AM ET, January 23, 2026
January 23, 2026
January 22, 2026
10:55 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Disney CEO Bob Iger's pay package rose 11.5% in 2025 to $45.8M; the Disney board is expected to name his successor early this year
9:05 PM
Financial Times:
TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9%
8:50 PM
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director
8:35 PM
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks' Sundance Now rebrands from offering scripted TV to airing indie film and festival titles, for $7.99/month, as this year's Sundance Festival begins
8:15 PM
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
AMC Networks says Chief Financial Officer Patrick O'Connell will depart the company in March to “pursue an opportunity outside of the media industry”
7:55 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates
7:34 PM
New York Times:
ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
6:35 PM
Lucy Schiller / Columbia Journalism Review:
Lawyers for NPR and three Colorado public radio stations, alongside others, discuss the outlets' 1A lawsuit against the Trump administration for stopping funds
5:25 PM
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more
4:30 PM
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
British podcasters like Steven Bartlett of The Diary of a CEO are adopting various strategies, including moving to the US, to break into the larger US market
3:45 PM
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Analysis: among the top 50 news websites in the US and the UK, 34% blocked all major AI training bots; 14%, including Fox and Substack, allowed access to all
3:40 PM
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Internal memo: Business Insider's chief revenue officer, Maggie Milnamow, and global head of sales, Orlando Reece, are leaving the company
2:59 PM
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
Bari Weiss says she's stepping away from her podcast for a “few short months”, citing her “huge responsibility” and opportunity at CBS News
2:45 PM
Tom Jones / Poynter:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump mixed up Iceland and Greenland in his WEF speech, despite video evidence
2:20 PM
Alisa Vasquez / Politico:
Politico names Tessa Berenson Rogers as Politico Magazine's editor and Giuseppe Macri as Playbook editor
1:50 PM
Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and WBD Chief Strategy Officer Bruce Campbell plan to testify in February at a US Senate committee hearing on the WBD sale
1:30 PM
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Source: a federal judge rejected the US DOJ's initial attempt to charge Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters that interrupted a Minnesota church service
12:31 PM
Zach Taylor / On Substack:
Substack launches its Substack TV app for Apple TV and Google TV in beta for free and paid subscribers, with access matched to their current subscription levels
11:20 AM
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated “commercially safe” images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe
10:40 AM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand
9:40 AM
Deadline:
A breakdown of 2026 Oscars nominations by movie and studio: WBD leads with 30 nominations, tying its own record, Neon gets 18, Netflix earns 16, Apple gets 6
9:05 AM
Clayton Davis / Variety:
Ryan Coogler's Sinners breaks the Academy Awards' nomination record with 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14, held by three films
8:30 AM
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Filing: Paramount extends the deadline for WBD shareholders to vote on its $30-per-share offer to February 20
8:00 AM
Liz Hoffman / Semafor:
Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week
6:30 AM
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The UK's Future acquires social-first publisher Sheerluxe and Blush Talent MGMT for an initial £39.9M, rising by an additional £40M based on performance
6:01 AM
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others
January 21, 2026
8:35 PM
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sensor Tower: video streaming app downloads grew 39% YoY in 2025, with revenue up 18%; microdrama downloads grew 100%+ and traditional streaming apps fell 4%+
8:15 PM
Washington Post:
An Israeli strike killed three journalists in Gaza, one of whom freelanced for AFP and CBS; Israel says it targeted operators of a drone affiliated with Hamas
6:15 PM
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains
5:30 PM
Business Insider:
Vimeo is laying off staff for the second time since September 2025, when it cut 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for ~$1.38B in November 2025
4:20 PM
The Hollywood Reporter:
The FCC says TV talk shows should now comply with equal time political broadcasting rules; the board's lone Democrat calls the change a censorship escalation
3:00 PM
Mickey Djuric / Politico:
A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns
2:25 PM
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Vox executives detail how Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interactions; sign-ups grew 350% in the first two months after Trump's inauguration
1:40 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in “collaboration” with its Eleven Music AI model
1:15 PM
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the EU is expected to approve UMG's $775M acquisition of Downtown Music, after UMG offered to divest Downtown's royalty services platform Curve
12:45 PM
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
A US judge blocks federal officials from examining devices seized from WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home until after he can review and rule on access issues
12:05 PM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan in January 2025
11:10 AM
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mediaite launches One Sheet, a daily media newsletter curated by reporter Colby Hall that aggregates media news from other media newsletters, for $8 per month
10:00 AM
Bill Bradley / Adweek:
Paramount launches guaranteed programmatic ad placements for live sports, debuting with Paramount+'s UFC debut on January 24
9:50 AM
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Prince Harry testified at London's High Court in his privacy case against Associated Newspapers, saying many articles made him “paranoid beyond belief”
9:25 AM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NYT launches Crossplay, its first two-player competitive word game, as a standalone iOS and Android app, as it seeks a bigger share of the mobile gaming market
9:20 AM
Emma Roth / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV plans to launch “fully customizable” multiview for non-sports channels and channel packages focused on various topics
9:15 AM
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators will be able to generate Shorts using their own AI likenesses starting in 2026
9:10 AM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying YouTube aims to reduce “AI slop” and has strengthened parental controls, and teases Shorts updates
8:10 AM
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she is “minded to” intervene in DMGT's takeover of The Telegraph and may ask Ofcom to look at the impact on media plurality
6:20 AM
Alex Ritman / Variety:
The BBC confirms a “strategic partnership” with YouTube to produce exclusive content, including news and YouTube channels aimed at children and young adults
5:45 AM
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments
5:05 AM
Alex Heath / Sources:
Demis Hassabis says there aren't “any plans” to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue”
January 20, 2026
7:45 PM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos outlines increasing competition for customers' attention from YouTube, Instagram, linear networks that also do streaming, and more
7:10 PM
@erikwemple:
The US House Armed Services Committee formally asks the Defense Department how it plans to safeguard Stars and Stripes' congressionally required independence
6:35 PM
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Greg Peters says Netflix plans to include new types of content, like video podcasts, in its vertical video feed, and will roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026
5:30 PM
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit in California, a week before the start of a trial, the first of several such lawsuits
5:20 PM
Bloomberg:
Sources: banks including Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC began selling an extra $8.2B of short-term loans to help Netflix fund its WBD purchase
4:35 PM
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Netflix says ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by over 2.5x vs. 2024, and that viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2 2025, driven by viewing of branded originals up 9%
4:18 PM
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.05B, vs. $11.97B est., 325M subscribers, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, and will spend 10% more on content in 2026
3:55 PM
Mark K. Miller / TVNewsCheck:
Fox News signs Reince Priebus, former White House chief of staff in 2017, as a political analyst
3:20 PM
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, beating Christmas 2024 by 3.9B minutes
2:55 PM
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
A US jury finds Edo, a TV ad measurement company, liable for breach of contract and says Edo must pay $18.3M in damages to rival iSpot; Edo plans to appeal
1:25 PM
Katie Atkinson / Billboard:
Penske Media names Leila Cobo and Jason Lipshutz as co-chief content officers of Billboard, overseeing editorial content and newsroom operations
12:55 PM
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser
12:25 PM
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
MS NOW hires Mike Nizza as VP of digital to focus on building out the network's subscription-based content
11:50 AM
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Adobe pledges ~$10M in grants and product donations in 2026 to support filmmakers, including funding creators directly for the first time
11:15 AM
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Beehiiv expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026; it has 40K+ MAUs, including 15K paying subscribers; 1 in 7 new writers come from Substack
10:45 AM
Peter White / Deadline:
Alan's Universe creator Alan Chikin Chow, whose YouTube channel has 99M subscribers, is working on a Netflix show, joining other major YouTubers at the streamer
9:45 AM
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: Peter Chernin is in negotiations to sell his independent studio, North Road, to French media company Mediawan in a deal worth $700M to $1B
9:15 AM
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Evening Standard plans to outsource its digital operations to Independent Media effective March 1; the Standard will still publish its weekly print newspaper
8:40 AM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023
8:30 AM
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Pitchfork launches a $5 per month or $50 per year subscription that lets readers comment on reviews, rate albums, and access its archive of 30,000+ reviews
8:00 AM
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025
7:15 AM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing
January 19, 2026
10:15 PM
Committee to Protect Journalists:
How Pakistan's government is increasingly using in absentia convictions and arrest warrants against Pakistani journalists living overseas, starting in late 2025
2:05 PM
Yue Stella Yu / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Newsom's 2026 budget proposal contains no funding for the California Civic Media Fund, despite a 2024 deal to provide $175M to newsrooms over five years
12:55 PM
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nexstar's NewsNation overhauls its nightly schedule by debuting a new 10pm show with Katie Pavlich, including an interview with President Trump on Tuesday
11:40 AM
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
The UK Gambling Commission says Meta is letting illegal gambling sites advertise on Facebook and Instagram, calling its ad library a “window into criminality”
10:25 AM
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
India's JioHotstar restructures its subscriptions, adding monthly options and raising prices on some tiers, in response to a shift toward large-screen viewing
9:40 AM
Reuters:
A UK privacy lawsuit by Prince Harry, Elton John, and others against Associated Newspapers begins, with allegations of phone hacking and illicit data collection
8:50 AM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web
8:01 AM
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A profile of Bari Weiss and an in-depth look at her hostile takeover of CBS News; a source says Weiss has said she is pursuing a “de-Baathification of CBS”
January 18, 2026
9:45 PM
Washington Post:
CBS airs 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, which Bari Weiss shelved in December as it lacked an on-camera interview with a Trump official, without such an interview
8:15 PM
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News airs the delayed 60 Minutes CECOT segment with new introductory and closing remarks; the core of the piece was untouched
6:35 PM
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
‘60 Minutes’ To Air ‘Inside CECOT’ Segment On Trump Deportations That Was Pulled From December Broadcast
2:00 PM
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Jan Philipp Burgard, Welt EIC and a top Axel Springer editor, was ousted after an investigation into inappropriate behavior toward female employees