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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Newsmax shares jumped as much as 667% in their NYSE debut after raising $75M in its IPO — The stock traded at $62.27 each at 12:07 p.m. in New York, in a debut that saw shares repeatedly halted for volatility. The company raised $75 million in the offering, selling 7.5 million shares for $10 apiece.
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo hires Josh Line, who was most recently Paramount Global's chief brand officer, as its CMO to revive its brand as “one of the OGs of the internet” — Internet pioneer names Josh Line, who was previously Paramount Global's chief brand officer, to reinvigorate its once-towering brand
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Wall Street Journal:
WBD adds Anton Levy, former co-president of PE firm General Atlantic, to its board, a source says due to pressure from activist shareholder Sessa Capital — Warner Bros. Discovery is expanding its board following pressure from an activist shareholder, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Variety, The Wrap, Reuters, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company — Reach CEO Jim Mullen is stepping down after six years with immediate effect. — Mullen will be succeeded as Reach CEO by Piers North, currently chief revenue officer.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers — France's antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology company asks …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” — The BBC faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” in the year to come, the corporation's Annual Plan setting out priorities for the next 12 months has said.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC Sports hires Betsy Riley, an NBC Sports veteran who recently led some Amazon sports offerings, to oversee production of its primetime Olympics program — Looks like NBC's new pop-culture primetime Olympics show is becoming permanent. — NBC Sports said Monday that it had lured Betsy Riley …
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J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
WBD's Max quietly launches a new logo with a monochrome color palette that evokes the longtime HBO branding, ditching its shiny blue UI — It's not HBO, it's Max — but the new standalone logo for Warner Bros. Discovery's streamer now certainly looks like HBO's at a glance.
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Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban, who has acquired 92 community newspapers across the US with the goal of revitalizing local journalism — An entrepreneur who owns 92 local newspapers confronts tariffs, distrust of print outlets and changing news diets
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Cord Cutters News, TVNewsCheck, @benjamintoff.bsky.social and @sarahscire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: the White House plans to impose its own seating chart for briefing room reporters, taking over a function long managed by the reporters through the WHCA — The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room in coming weeks …
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Pew Research Center:
Survey: 36% of Americans say they hear a lot about Trump's relationship with the media, down from 72% in 2017; 71% follow Trump administration news closely — Far fewer are hearing about the administration's relationship with the media than was the case early in Trump's first term
Max Tani / Semafor:
An interview with California Governor Gavin Newsom on his new weekly podcast, backlash to his interviews with conservative figures, media strategies, and more — The Scoop — As Democrats begin their slow slog back to power, they're grappling with what may be their most vexing problem …
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