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8:50 PM ET, November 20, 2025

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New York Times:
Sources: Paramount Skydance, Comcast, and Netflix bid in the first round for WBD; Comcast and Netflix are seeking just the studio and streaming parts of WBD  —  The outcome of the sale could alter the trajectory of the entertainment business.  —  The heavyweights of Hollywood made their cases …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Sources: a White House official discussed with Larry Ellison cutting CNN hosts that President Trump loathes and running CBS shows like 60 Minutes on CNN  —  Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery  —  Senior White House officials …
Matt Hughes / The Guardian:
Paramount wins UK rights to show most UEFA Champions League games from 2027 to 2031; sources say its bid was much higher than TNT's current £1B per year deal  —  - US network made largest bid at this week's auction  — Amazon Prime will have first pick of Tuesday matches
Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company
Reuters:
A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations  —  A Spanish court has ordered that the multinational tech company Meta (META.O) pay 479 million euros ($552 million) …
Letterboxd:
Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December  —  Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off.
John Buckley / Capital Brief:
Sources: US officials raised concerns with Australia over its streaming content quotas that the government is trying to push through the Senate before year end  —  The US Embassy has directly raised concerns about the policy in Canberra, raising the stakes for the Albanese government as it pursues an aggressive tech reform agenda.
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Q&A with Variety's new publisher and co-president, Dea Lawrence, on her career, on AI and digital creators being “crucial” for the outlet, and more  —  Dea Lawrence has assumed the top business role at Variety, succeeding Michelle Sobrino Stearns as publisher and also becoming co-president …
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at the “explosion” of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press  —  A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site …
The Japan Times:
A Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay a ~$3.2M fine to four major Japanese publishers for its role in hosting servers for manga piracy sites  —  The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million ($3.2 million) to major Japanese publishers after the U.S. firm …
Lachlan Cartwright / Vanity Fair:
A look at Rupert Murdoch's California Post, which will focus on LA, Silicon Valley, and Sacramento when it launches in 2026; Ian Mohr will lead CA Page Six  —  California is a veritable news feast—politicians with national ambitions, climate disasters, the twin industries of Hollywood and tech.
Ivan L. Nagy / Columbia Journalism Review:
An ex-Pentagon press corps member says Pentagon day pass requests now require an hour-by-hour activity summary and a list of people they plan to speak to  —  While veteran national security reporters can't get their calls answered, members of the new, MAGA-friendly press corps have a hotline to the Department of War.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads  —  On YouTube's conservative airwaves, podcast hosts tout products that let people buy into the MAGA crowd: Republican Red Winery vintages …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House sends out a press release calling ABC News “a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network” and cataloging perceived offenses  —  A day after President Donald Trump blew up at ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce and called for the network to lose …
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Reuters:
The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs
 
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Cornell researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, including neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare
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How a freelancer's suspicious pitch led an editor to dig into past work, finding inconsistencies and falsehoods, as tech makes falsifying writing trivially easy
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Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet
Paul Roberts / Seattle Times:
Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO
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Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico:
Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders
 
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