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4:40 PM ET, March 4, 2025

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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 …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: WaPo CEO Will Lewis and Executive Editor Matt Murray skipped a premiere 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 …
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD says Max will launch in Turkey on April 15, replacing BluTV, acquired in late 2023, and reiterates plans to increase its investment in local productions  —  Turkey becomes the 77th Max territory and “marks a significant moment in the globalization of WBD's streaming service,” the company said …
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Firsthand, whose tools let marketers and publishers engage consumers through AI agents on their own sites or other sites as paid media, raised a $26M Series A  —  - The New York-based startup previously raised $6.6 million in seed funding, led by Radical Ventures.
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 …
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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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC taps The Washington Post's Jackie Alemany to co-host The Weekend and serve as a Washington correspondent  —  MSNBC is, like other cable-news mainstays, giving roundtable shows a harder spin.  —  Jackie Alemany, who has logged stints covering politics at both CBS News and The Washington Post …
Bloomberg:
Filing: AP renews its request for a judge to order the White House to resume access for AP reporters at Trump's events and says a ban harms AP financially  —  The Associated Press renewed its request for a judge to order the White House to allow the wire service's reporters to resume covering President Donald Trump's events.
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
David Zaslav says WBD is both looking at how much content it's producing and bringing HBO content to TNT and TBS that it doesn't plan on licensing to rivals  —  The chief executive also said the media giant is changing how it programs its cable channels, including looking at bringing HBO content to TNT and TBS
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.
 
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Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado
 
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