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10:55 AM ET, March 4, 2025

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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Canal+ reports FY 2024 revenue up 3.6% YoY to €6.45B, EBITA up 5.4% YoY to €503M, subscribers up 0.4% YoY to 26.9M, and a debt level of €355M  —  The company is “firmly on track to reach 50-10 million subscribers, says CEO Maxime Saada, touting the importance of cinema …
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: incoming Paramount president Jeff Shell asked CBS News chief Wendy McMahon and 60 Minutes boss Bill Owens in October to release the Harris transcript  —  As Paramount's merger with Skydance nears the finish line, CBS News chief Wendy McMahon and “60 Minutes” boss Bill Owens …
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Patrick Soon-Shiong says LAT opinion pieces will show an AI-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views  —  Los Angeles paper's ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: WaPo CEO Will Lewis and Executive Editor Matt Murray skipped a screening of Becoming Katharine Graham, a new documentary on the WaPo's fabled publisher  —  A premiere for a documentary about Katharine Graham, the longtime publisher, had people talking about changes at the paper, and in Washington.
Martin Baron / The Atlantic:
Jeff Bezos handled his ownership of The Washington Post admirably for over a decade but then faltered badly, cozying up to Trump to avoid the president's wrath  —  The day the world learned that Jeff Bezos would buy The Washington Post, the Amazon founder offered assurances that he would not cower …
Axios:
Source: E.W. Scripps is laying off staff across multiple local news stations and it will not fill any open positions; Scripps operates 61 stations in 41 markets  —  - Tegna laid off members from its fact-checking team in February.  — Nexstar said it would lay off 2% of staffers in December.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Reach reports FY 2024 revenue down 5.3% YoY to £539M, operating profit up 6% to £102M, digital revenue up 2.1% to £130M, and print revenue down 7.3% to £407M  —  Cost cuts and growing digital revenue helped Reach to increase its annual profits in 2024 as it released its results for the year.
Hritam Mukherjee / Reuters:
India's top court allows podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, charged with obscenity, to resume airing his shows, provided they meet “decency and morality” standards  —  India's top court allowed a podcaster charged with obscenity to resume airing his shows on the condition they met standards of …
Annie Aguiar / New York Times:
After the success of crowdfunded show The Chosen, streamers are focusing on Bible stories with Game of Thrones-style intrigue and romantic comedy elements  —  After the success of “The Chosen,” Amazon and Netflix are converting Bible stories into films and TV shows with “Game of Thrones”-style intrigue and romantic comedy elements.
 
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Gannett fires The Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor Tony Doris after he ran a cartoon on the Israel-Hamas war that drew criticism from a local Jewish group
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen and Disney: the 97th Oscars averaged 18.07M viewers in the US, down 7% YoY, across ABC and Hulu, where it was livestreamed for the first time
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox Nation has 2M to 2.5M subscribers, suggests a new stand-alone Fox streaming outlet would be aimed at “cord nevers” and “cord cutters”
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney hires ex-Warner Bros. exec Andrew Cripps as head of theatrical distribution, replacing Tony Chambers, who was named the president of Disney in Europe
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Independent films triumphed over more popular titles at the 97th Academy Awards, with Neon's Anora claiming five Oscars and A24's The Brutalist winning three
 

 
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Software stocks extended their weeks-long selloff on Monday; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini Research
 
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