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9:50 AM ET, March 6, 2026

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Mikeie Honda Reiland / Nashville Banner:
A reporter for Nashville Noticias, Estefany Rodríguez, has been detained and is being sent to an ICE center in Louisiana; she had reported on ICE previously  —  A reporter who faced death threats in her home country could now be sent back by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer agrees to buy the Telegraph for £575M, ending the proposed acquisition by the DMGT, and plans to “turbocharge” the Telegraph's presence in the US  —  The German publisher outbid an existing offer from the Daily Mail for the British newspaper
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Some podcasters exclusive to Netflix see their YouTube channel growth slow; sources: Netflix limits how many clips podcasters can share on third-party platforms  —  Podcasters exclusive to Netflix are seeing their channel growth slow by as much as 50% compared to the year prior  —  Welcome back to Soundbite.
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Dylan Smith / Digital Music News:
UMG reports Q4 revenue up 4.8% YoY to €3.61B and paid listening up 2.4% YoY to €1.26B; UMG says it is not moving ahead with a US listing at this time  —  Universal Music Group (UMG) has posted modest Q4 2025 revenue growth due largely to a continued paid-streaming slowdown.
Journalism Funding Partners:
Journalism Funding Partners announces that Google chose the group as a third-party administrator for California's public-private partnership to fund newsrooms  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Sacramento, CA — Journalism Funding Partners (JFP) announced today that Google has selected …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X overhauls its Creator Subscriptions with new features including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, and a shareable subscriptions card  —  Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it's revamping the social network's Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Italian authorities confirm that Francesco Cancellato, director of news site Fanpage, had his phone hacked in December 2024 using spyware made by Paragon  —  Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked.
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
In response to its charter review, the BBC says “irreversible” trends threaten its survival, citing a “mismatch” between TV license rules and viewing habits  —  In opening response to charter review, corporation points to ‘mismatch’ between TV licence rules and viewing habits
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC suggests opening iPlayer to other public broadcasters to “help ensure the UK retains a streaming platform that competes with global services”
 
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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
The Washington Post enters a multiyear licensing deal with Veritone to make its video journalism and archival footage available to partners and creators
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
The White House's official X account posted a video mixing footage from Call of Duty with real military strikes against Iranian targets
Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
An interview with Ben Levisohn, recently named editor-in-chief of Barron's, on his routine, the magazine's digital strategy, and more
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Henry Bushnell / The Athletic:
Sources: FIFA will allow TV broadcasters to cut away to ads during the World Cup's three-minute “hydration breaks” that will split each half of matches
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
In an interview, David Ellison says CNN would retain editorial independence if the WBD deal closes: “it's maintained at CBS and it will be maintained at CNN”
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Internal memo: CBS Mornings top producer Shawna Thomas will leave her role; a source says CBS News executives are eager to find a way to keep working with her
 

 
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Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude

Wired:
Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year

Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations
 
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