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Oliver Darcy / Status:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says he will attend the WHCA dinner, source says as Paramount's guest; CBS News invited Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller as guests — When throngs of journalists and politicos descend on the Washington Hilton's 30,000-square-foot ballroom this Saturday to celebrate …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
More than 250 ex-broadcast journalists urge WHCA dinner organizers “to forcefully demonstrate opposition” to Trump's “efforts to trample freedom of the press”
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New York Times:
Filing: The Onion proposes a new deal for Infowars, licensing Infowars.com for $81,000 per month for six months initially; the deal requires a judge's approval — When Infowars, the website founded by the right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones, came up for sale two years ago, an unlikely suitor stepped up.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube makes its deepfake detection tool available to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused, expanding it from public officials and politicians — The tool, which requires a celebrity to upload a digital replica, will flag potentially infringing content — like, say …
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Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
A Forbes story about a Louisiana man killing 8 children contained a ForbesPredict box asking readers to predict whether Congress would pass new gun safety laws — In another sign that the depravity economy has no bottom, Forbes published a story about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children …
Jana Winter / Reuters:
FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick for defamation, seeking $250M, over an article that claimed he had a drinking problem — FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick following the publication …
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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Caper, a food news brand by two Puck founders and VF's Dana Brown, launches with a $2.5M seed, offering staff salary plus revenue-linked bonuses and equity — A media company covering the business of food, restaurants and hospitality in New York “and beyond” has launched with eight full …
Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
Barack Obama says Higher Ground, his production company with Michelle Obama, will become an independent operation after its Netflix deal, signed in 2018, ends — The couple are “in the process now of transitioning to a more independent [company] where we can work with a bunch of different studios,” Barack Obama said.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
The FTC seeks to dismiss its appeal of an order blocking its demand for Media Matters info, since it withdrew the demand; Media Matters wants the case to go on — The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to dismiss its appeal of an order that prohibited the agency from demanding information from the watchdog Media Matters for America.
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A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others — Thrilled to announce our investment in a new media company called MTS — Thrilled to announce our investment …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Kansas City Star unions filed grievances with McClatchy, saying it didn't give enough notice for “major technological change” — Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star unions have filed grievances against the company as TheWrap obtains …
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Daniel Tilles / Notes From Poland:
Newsmax launches a Polish version, starting as a news site and planning to add a TV channel; its ties to a Serbian state-owned company have drawn criticism — A local version of Newsmax, the right-wing US broadcaster, has launched in Poland, initially as a news website but soon to be followed by a TV channel.
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Brice Laemle / Le Monde:
Since December 2025, print media companies in France have cut nearly 1,000 jobs; Trendeo: since 2009, 10.5K jobs have disappeared from the sector in France — Since December 2025, magazine and regional press companies have announced nearly 1,000 job cuts, putting the viability of countless newsrooms at risk.
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