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3:40 PM ET, September 15, 2025

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Karen Attiah / The Golden Hour:
WaPo columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired last week over her social media posts “against hatred and violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination  —  Last week, the Washington Post fired me.  —  The reason?  Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America's apathy toward guns.
CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has reached a TikTok deal with China, as Trump cites “a ‘certain’ company that young people” in the US wanted saved  —  The U.S. and China have reached a ‘framework’ deal for social media platform TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Apple won 22 awards at the 77th Emmy's, its highest ever, as HBO and HBO Max rebounded with 30 awards; Netflix won 30, NBCUniversal won 16, and Disney won 13  —  Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery share the lead for most wins in 2025.  —  A record-setting night for The Studio helped give Apple TV …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Fox and Friends' Brian Kilmeade apologizes after saying homeless people with mental health issues who refuse help should get an “involuntary lethal injection”  —  Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends, appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday, telling viewers, “In the morning …
Annabelle Timsit / Washington Post:
Two Utah men are arrested and charged with attempted aggravated arson after an incendiary device was found under a vehicle belonging to KSTU Fox 13 News  —  Investigators also found “two hoax weapons of mass destruction” at the residence of Adeeb and Adil Nasir, which the men said were real, according to an affidavit.
Katie Campione / Deadline:
Early Nielsen data shows that the 77th Emmys drew 7.42M viewers across CBS and Paramount+, marking a four-year viewership high and up 8% YoY  —  The 77th Emmy Awards may not have been “a big one like 75 or 80,” as host Nate Bargatze put it during last night's ceremony, but it was the most-watched in years.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2  —  Following its long-awaited launch of lossless streaming for paid subscribers, Spotify is upgrading its service for free users, too.
New York Times:
After Trump's budget cuts, radio and TV stations are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they mull whether to drop national programming altogether  —  Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether …
Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
UK's Channel 4 plans to mark Trump's UK visit with an hours-long program cataloging 100+ falsehoods, punctuated by “brief text-based fact checks”, on Sept. 17  —  ‘Trump v The Truth’ will run for several hours on Sept. 17 and is set to be punctuated by “brief text-based fact-checks.”
Deadline:
A look at the networks, studios, executives, and libraries of Paramount and WBD amid merger talk, and similarities with Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox  —  As the industry and investors take stock of the entertainment colossus that could be created, however, the nagging thought occurs: Have we seen this movie before?
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New York Times:
A look at David Ellison's spending spree, representing the biggest funding change in Hollywood since 2013 when Netflix began showering creators with money
 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M
Discussion: Telegraph
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Vice President JD Vance hosts Monday's episode of The Charlie Kirk Show from his office in the White House complex as a tribute to Kirk
Iris Samuels / Anchorage Daily News:
An Alaska fund has raised $3.5M+ from 80 donors in its first two months to help public radio and TV stations partially offset the ~$15M federal funding cuts
Discussion: Inside Radio
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence”
 

 
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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

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory
 
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