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Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025 — Measured by Nielsen, that's above the 124.9 million average viewers achieved by this year's Super Bowl overall but down from the 133.5 …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor — Australia's longest-serving editor credited with transforming a fledgling news organisation into the fourth most-read news website
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Sky and Disney sign a multiyear deal to offer Disney+ to Sky customers in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost, and Sky will bundle HBO Max, Netflix, and Hayu — Sky and Disney have inked a multi-year distribution deal that will see the broadcaster offer Disney+ to Sky customers in the U.K …
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Tina Brown / FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary:
The Jeff Bezos who bought WaPo in 2013 is not the same one allowing its destruction now, and he has ended the myth that a tech billionaire could save journalism — The whole debacle of the Washington Post brand hara-kiri last week dispatched the myth that a tech billionaire could save serious journalism.
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: activist investor Ancora Holdings has built a roughly $200M stake in WBD and is planning to oppose the Netflix-WBD deal, favoring a deal with Paramount — Ancora builds a roughly $200 million stake in Warner Bros. Discovery and favors a deal with David Ellison's Paramount Skydance
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a “ticking fee” worth ~$650M/quarter if the deal isn't closed by year-end and offers to fund WBD's $2.8B Netflix breakup fee
Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a “ticking fee” worth ~$650M/quarter if the deal isn't closed by year-end and offers to fund WBD's $2.8B Netflix breakup fee
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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Sources: E.W. Scripps sent layoff notices to dozens of Court TV staff after it sold the channel to Jellysmack; Court TV's linear feed will shut down on March 11 — Dozens of producers, editors and other employees assigned to the E. W. Scripps Company's legal network Court TV received layoff notices …
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Tim Davie says the UK Foreign Office's deal with the BBC World Service ends in seven weeks; the office contributed £137M to the service's £400M funding in 2025 — As trust in Russia and China's state broadcasters grows, director general warns of the dangers of cutting back the service
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters:
An Indian court sentences journalist Ravi Nair to one year in jail for his social media posts on the Adani Group, calling the posts unverified and defamatory — An Indian court has sentenced a journalist to one year in jail for some of his social media posts on the Adani Group …
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Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Newspaper publishers relying on the US Postal Service for delivery say widespread and sometimes extreme delays are damaging their businesses — Newspaper delays are just one consequence of cost cuts and changes to a fraying 250-year-old system. — Many publishers first noticed the complaints spike last summer.
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
A judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a student threatened with deportation after co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel — The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote …
TMZ.com:
Sources: Britney Spears sold her music catalog and other rights to Primary Wave, in a deal estimated to be “in the ballpark” of $200M — BRITNEY SPEARS I SOLD A PIECE OF ME ... AND THE WHOLE DAMN CATALOG!!! … Britney Spears just signed a massive new music deal …
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New York Times:
Anna Wintour and Chloe Malle, Vogue's new US head of editorial content, hold a joint video interview ahead of the release of Malle's first print issue — In their first joint interview, Ms. Malle spoke about filling the shoes of Ms. Wintour, who urged people to “get over comparisons.”
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In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network — The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.
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