Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:50 PM ET, September 10, 2025

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
New York Times:
Sources: Paramount is considering giving Bari Weiss the title of editor-in-chief or co-president of CBS News, as part of a broader deal to buy The Free Press  —  The talks with Ms. Weiss, a founder of The Free Press, are the strongest sign yet that the new owner of CBS News intends to make major changes.
Deseret News:
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA influencer who founded Turning Point USA, has died after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University  —  This is a breaking news story and will be updated.  —  Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday.
The Guardian:
Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time  —  Extensive meetings in 2022 between Lewis, then vice-chair of AP, and Johnson were not disclosed in transparency records
New York Times:
President Trump signs a memorandum seeking to reinstate a pre-1997 policy that would sharply restrict prescription drug advertising on TV and social media  —  The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV.  That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it will comply with South Dakota and Wyoming age-verification laws, as their take “currently strikes the right balance”, after exiting Mississippi  —  After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription  —  Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan. … It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Free London business paper City AM says it returned to print profitability, with gross profit margin of 50% last quarter and EBIT up 52% from January to August  —  Free London business newspaper City AM has claimed a healthy return to print profitability over the last year.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping  —  Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges  —  Bending Spoons, one of Europe's largest mobile app developers, has agreed to buy the video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.38 billion.
Financial Times:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch forced the $3.3B succession deal through sheer will, placing enormous pressure on his adult children during negotiations over months  —  How the media mogul put chosen son Lachlan in charge of his empire — and cut out his ‘departing members’
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 4:50 PM ET, September 10, 2025.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount hires Meta's Dane Glasgow as chief product officer, reporting directly to CEO David Ellison; Glasgow is Facebook's former VP of product management
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News cancels MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz, the last media criticism show on TV after CNN's Reliable Sources was canceled; Kurtz will remain with the network
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Sources: UK-based The Observer cuts casual staff, changes its production days, and significantly reduces pagination, following its sale to Tortoise in April
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Nepalese “Gen Z” protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions
 Earlier Picks: 
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Ten years in, Stat has 520 group licenses, 7.5M monthly paid views, and a staff of around 100; summer subscriptions rose 45% YoY, thanks to a Trump bump
Dell Cameron / Wired:
Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more
 

 
From Techmeme:

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, which would value the company at almost $1.77T

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal:
Alphabet upsized its equity raise to $84.75B, including $35B in underwritten public offerings, up from a planned $30B; a source says it contacted ~75 investors

Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page