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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WBD reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to $10B, ad revenue down 11% to $1.8B, and losses up 24% YoY to $494M, including $1.9B in charges and restructuring expenses — Like its rivals., Warner is navigating a difficult era for the media sector, one in which linear TV audiences, much easier to monetize …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Marty Baron condemns changes to WaPo's opinion section, says he is “disgusted” as Bezos is “betraying” WaPo's “longstanding principles” for commercial interests — Former executive editor Marty Baron told the Daily Beast there was “no doubt in my mind” …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis says opinion section changes are “not about siding with any political party” but about “being crystal clear about what we stand for”
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Reversing decades of precedent, the WHCA announces it will no longer coordinate shared coverage of President Trump amid an escalating dispute over press access — The move breaks from decades of cooperation between the White House and the journalists who cover the president.
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
The White House kicked out Reuters and a HuffPost reporter from Trump's Wednesday press pool; with AP still blocked, just one wire service remained in the pool
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
On day one of choosing its own “press pool”, the White House replaced HuffPost with Axios; two staunchly pro-Trump outlets, Newsmax and The Blaze, were added
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
BBC Chief Content Office Charlotte Moore is leaving to become Left Bank Pictures CEO and Sony Pictures TV's creative director of international production — Newswire … PMC — Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Deadline Hollywood, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News names Tom Cibrowski, a TV news veteran who has managed Good Morning America and the San Francisco station KGO, as president and executive editor — Your Privacy Rights — PMC, its service providers, and third-party partners collect information about you and how you use our services …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok revamps its desktop website with a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, and a floating player, in a bid to take on YouTube — In a bid to take on YouTube, TikTok is revamping its desktop platform with the addition of several new features.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN plans to launch SC+, a new SportsCenter show, on March 3 exclusively on Disney+ for US subscribers, designed for a casual, entertainment-focused audience — Disney and ESPN have cooked up a plan to try to whet the sports appetite of Disney+ U.S. customers — who may not necessarily be the more voracious fans of sporting events.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: MrBeast is looking to raise a couple hundred million dollars at a ~$5B valuation; MrBeast has said he “lost tens of millions of dollars on Beast Games” — - YouTube star aims to raise a couple hundred million dollars — He lost ‘tens of millions’ of dollars on Amazon reality show
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Sony Pictures Entertainment says it is soliciting bids from media and tech companies for the streaming rights to new episodes of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune — Sony Pictures Entertainment is soliciting bids for the streaming rights to the two popular game shows.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Pete Distad, previously named as the CEO of now-shuttered Venu Sports streaming service, will serve as CEO of Fox's recently announced DTC streaming service — Pete Distad has a new gig after the shutdown of sports-streaming joint venture Venu Sports.
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
A profile of London-based Mubi, a niche movie streaming service with 400 employees boosted by hit film The Substance, turning it into a real Hollywood player — Early on in “The Substance,” the body horror film starring Demi Moore that has been nominated for five Academy Awards …
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Reuters:
A Vietnam court sentences former journalist Truong Huy San to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts; San wrote “The Winning Side” about post-war Vietnam — A court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a former journalist to 30 months in prison after finding him guilty of …
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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
WPP's shares drop 15%+ after the company forecasted adjusted sales for 2025 to remain flat or shrink in 2025, missing analysts' estimates — WPP Plc shares dropped the most in more than six years after the British advertising agency group forecast sales that would remain flat or shrink this year, missing analysts' estimates.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Internal memo: Paramount is making changes to its DEI policies to conform to efforts by the Trump administration to eliminate diversity programs — The company has a merger pending before the Federal Communications Commission, whose chief has criticized programs focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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