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8:40 PM ET, February 5, 2025

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CBS News:
60 Minutes publishes transcripts and video from its interview with VP Kamala Harris that the FCC requested, as the agency reviews the Paramount-Skydance merger  —  We are posting the same transcripts and videos of our interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that we provided to the FCC.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr releases the CBS Harris transcript and seeks comment on a complaint about a CBS station; commissioner Anna Gomez calls the moves reckless  —  The complete interview, which is at the center of a lawsuit filed by President Trump, shows that “60 Minutes” aired a concise version of Ms. Harris's answer on Israel.
The New York Times Company:
The NYT reports Q4 revenue up 7.5% YoY to $726.6M, subscription revenue up 16% YoY to $334.9M, and operating profit up 13.6% YoY to $146.6M  —  NEW YORK, February 5, 2025 - The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today fourth- quarter and full-year 2024 results.  Key Highlights
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
In Q1, Disney+ lost a net 700,000 customers worldwide while Hulu gained 1.6M, and operating income hit $312M, up from a $224M loss in Q1 2024, driven by Moana 2  —  Domestic theme parks operating income hurt by hurricane expenses in fiscal Q1 2025  —  Animated blockbuster “Moana 2” …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bob Iger says an ESPN streaming service will have “some form of betting and fantasy and a high degree of customization” at its fall 2025 launch
Axios:
WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt, answering claims that USAID spent millions on Politico subscriptions, says DOGE will cancel $8M in Politico subscriptions  —  - Right-wing personalities are using USAspending.gov to dig up more payments from the government to media organizations …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Lara Trump will begin hosting a weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22; there is no precedent for a sitting president's relative to host a show on a major channel  —  There is no precedent for a sitting president's relative to host a show on a major television news channel.
Liam Reilly / CNN:
As Trump and Elon Musk remake the federal government, traffic surges at Government Executive and other small outlets that specialize in the federal workforce  —  As President Trump and Elon Musk remake the federal government through firings, orders and brute force, small news publishers …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The foreperson of the Florida jury that found CNN defamed a US Navy veteran says she would've awarded ~$100M, not $5M, and the “public is fed up with fake news”  —  In a Florida courtroom last month, a plaintiff's attorney asked jurors to “send a message” by holding CNN accountable …
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Kyle Buchanan / New York Times:
How online Oscar scandals have caught awards strategists who once influenced via whisper campaigns flat-footed, as Netflix struggles to deal with Emilia Pérez  —  As Karla Sofía Gascón's resurfaced social media posts upend the campaign for the year's most-nominated film, what happens now?
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK news anchor Kay Burley retires from Sky News after 36 years and “over a million minutes of live TV news”; Burley was one of Sky's original presenters in 1989  —  Kay Burley, one of the UK's best-known news anchors, is retiring from Sky News after 36 years.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Trump shutting down USAID, which boasted in recent years of supporting 6,000+ journalists and 700 newsrooms in 30+ countries, affects journalism globally  —  What the aid funding freeze means for independent journalism around the world.  —  Over the weekend, amid spiraling headlines …
 
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PBS-YouGov poll: 65% of Trump voters think PBS is underfunded or adequately funded; 82% of voters value PBS for its children's programming and educational tools
 

 
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process

Rachael Levy / Reuters:
President Trump says “we may speak to Elon” about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed
 
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