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Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes — Paramount has held preliminary conversations with several candidates for a business-side counterpart to CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss …
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New York Times:
Lesley Stahl says David Ellison called her and promised to respect editorial independence at 60 Minutes, a sign he is taking steps to calm turmoil at the show — David Ellison told Lesley Stahl, one of three remaining correspondents for the news program, that he would respect the show's editorial decisions after a tumultuous stretch.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Bari Weiss and her CBS News team find themselves under siege from both sides as Trump appears uninterested in a modest rightward shift, amid a rolling civil war — If CBS News' new owners are trying to pull the network away from what they see as liberal politics and reflexive hostility to Donald Trump …
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Variety, @joshkraushaar, Mediaweek, Inc.com, Letters from an American, The Gateway Pundit and Unfogged
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Email: the WH press corps won't be allowed on White House grounds Sunday due to the UFC fight; only press poolers will be allowed unless UFC gives credentials — The White House is ceding control of who gets into the fight event on the South Lawn, in a break with tradition. — Summary
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Awful Announcing, New Republic, Axios, @scottnover.bsky.social, @annahbackstrom and Sports Video Group
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Digital Content Next, which represents major US publishers, sends Common Crawl a cease-and-desist demanding it stop scraping and remove copyrighted content — Digital news publishers in the US have raised “significant legal concerns” over the scraping of their content by Common Crawl Foundation.
Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA launches a probe into Paramount's $110B acquisition of WBD, and sets an initial ruling deadline on August 7; the EU has already set a July 7 deadline — Britain's merger watchdog has opened a probe into Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.
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Deadline, Media Play News, The Wrap, GOV.UK and The Movie Blog
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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
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
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes the first release of 2026 to cross $1B in global grosses; Michael Jackson biopic Michael is on the verge of crossing $900M — The Universal/Illumination film crossed the milestone after its ninth weekend in theaters — After nine weekends in theaters …
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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
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
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IndieWire, The Indian Express, The Hollywood Reporter, Gizmodo, Variety, @everyonebpup, @cinephiliabeyond.org, ScreenRant and r/boxoffice
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others — Reuters and Time are taking a new approach to bot blocking. Both publishers have recently started blocking all AI bots by default …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Progressive site Zeteo plans to expand to the UK with a standalone site that will begin publishing this week, ahead of a hard launch in September — The Scoop — A popular independent lefty American media company is expanding to the United Kingdom. — On Tuesday, Zeteo …
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@maxwelltani, @semafor.com, Zeteo and Press Gazette
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Corp. signs a new deal to show a wide range of NFL games via its Mexican outlets, including transmissions of Thursday Night Football and the Super Bowl — Fox Corp. said it secured a new deal to show a wide range of NFL games via its Mexican outlets, including transmissions of …
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
NY passes legislation requiring news orgs to provide disclosures on content substantially or wholly produced by AI; the bill awaits the governor's signature — Backed by the Writers Guild of America, the NY FAIR News Act now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk for signature
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@wgaeast.bsky.social, @1gregtodd.bsky.social, The A.V. Club, Pluribus News and NewsGuild of New York
Calum Jaspan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia's ABC MD Hugh Marks says Justin Stevens' exit was “inevitable” after disputes over newsroom direction, and Stevens was unaware he was being replaced — ABC boss Hugh Marks says news chief Justin Stevens wasn't aware the public broadcaster was in the process of replacing …
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The Saturday Paper, ABC, The Guardian and Sky News Australia
Washington Post:
A reconstruction of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil's final hours shows that she bled to death, sources say after the IDF denied access to rescuers — A Post reconstruction of Amal Khalil's final hours in Lebanon found that Israel's military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
