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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Q&A with Scott Pelley on his last days at 60 Minutes, CBS News' Bari Weiss era, “Black Thursday massacre” firings, confronting Nick Bilton publicly, and more  —  It's hard to overstate the impact of “60 Minutes” on journalism.  It's the most-watched television-news program in America.
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says “many legacy journalists are completely out of touch”, in response to Scott Pelley's surprise over his 60 Minutes ousting  —  FCC boss Brendan Carr went after journalist Scott Pelley for claiming in his recent New York Times profile that it “hadn't occurred” …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim say they will stay at 60 Minutes as they don't want to see it die and are “working to build trust with Nick”
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount Skydance is open to selling some children's TV network assets to help win EU approval of its $110B bid for WBD ahead of a July 7 deadline  —  Paramount Skydance Corp. is prepared — if necessary — to divest some children's TV network assets to help win European Union approval …
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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon
Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg:
A judge orders Paramount Skydance to reveal some internal docs from its 2025 merger, in a lawsuit by investors who say the deal unfairly enriched Shari Redstone
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Backrooms, which has a budget of ~$10M, becomes A24's highest grossing movie ever with $212.6M in global box office in ten days, beating Marty Supreme's $191.2M  —  The Kane Parsons feature take of his viral IP ranked third at the global box office with a second frame of $50.1M at 52 territories …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, aiming to add more video to become a one-stop shop for music fans  —  Spotify is looking to become a hub for live music  —  Good evening from New York.  I just landed here so that I can help smuggle Charles Oakley …
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump's lawyers tell SCOTUS that he intends to ask for the revival of his $475M defamation suit against CNN over use of the term “Big Lie” in its 2020 reporting  —  President Donald Trump told the US Supreme Court he intends to ask the justices to revive his $475 million defamation lawsuit …
Madison Darbyshire / Bloomberg:
Profile of YouTuber Markiplier, whose 38.5M subscribers propelled Iron Lung, the movie he wrote, financed, and directed, to a $40M box office in its first month  —  The YouTube creator spent years building a devoted audience.  Then he used it to bypass the traditional studio system.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Edison Research: a record 58% of Americans age 12 or older consumed a podcast in the last month; YouTube was the most-used service among weekly consumers at 37%   Find
 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump stormed out of his interview with NBC News' Meet the Press after getting into a verbal sparring match with Kristen Welker over election fraud claims
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Paramount Skydance unveils Paramount Games Studio, which combines Skydance's two game studios with Paramount's IP, to be headed by Tony Driscoll
 

 
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Engadget:
A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple is expected to announce an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability, and more

Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents

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Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI factory and co-designing future data center architectures
 
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