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9:27 PM ET, May 7, 2026

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Elliott Management selected Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to lead a combined London IPO of book retailers Barnes & Noble and Waterstones Booksellers  —  Elliott Management Corp. has selected banks to lead a combined initial public offering of book retailers Barnes & Noble Inc …
Vaishnavi Mishra / ndtvprofit.com:
Axios Middle East correspondent Barak Ravid rejected allegations that his outlet coordinated with oil market insiders ahead of his story on a US-Iran peace deal  —  Reports cited Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi as claiming that Trump, his envoy Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner …
Katie Campione / Deadline:
A crew of 22 workers on the YouTube series CoComelon: The Melon Patch launched a strike over working conditions and management's refusal to bargain with IATSE  —  “Rather than provide fair wages and benefits to the crew the producer is trying to hire scabs for the production that's shooting in Sun Valley …
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Microdrama actors say their images were used to create misleading, sexual promos, pushing them to include contract clauses requiring consent for AI manipulation  —  - Actors say micro drama apps manipulated their images to create misleading, sexual promos.  — The AI-generated ads showed …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Most of California's Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to state AG Rob Bonta urging him to “closely scrutinize” the Paramount-WBD deal  —  Most of California's Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday urging him to …
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months  —  Amazon MX Player is being absorbed into Prime Video, combining India's free and paid streaming catalogs under a single platform.
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Nexstar reports record Q1 net revenue up 13.1% YoY to $1.396B, net income up 64.9% YoY to $160M, and ad revenue up 19.1% YoY to $548M  —  Save this article for later!  Login or create a Free Member Profile to bookmark it.  —  Net revenue was $1.396 billion, up 13.1% year over year, while net income was up 65%.
CNN:
Ted Turner, a pioneer of 24-hour cable TV news who founded CNN, dies at 87; the Ohio-born Atlanta businessman eventually sold his networks to Time Warner  —  Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news …
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Associated Press:
A look back at Ted Turner's invention of global 24-hour cable TV news and how it dramatically changed politics, journalism, and civic engagement
 
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Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Axios' total Q1 content output was down 22% YoY, but page views rose 30% and page views per visitor rose 22%, as the outlet shifts away from chasing traffic
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Filing: music industry organizations oppose a proposed 43% average increase to US Copyright registration fees, say the hike would lock out independent creators
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Survey: 59% of Gen Z streaming app users in the US, the UK, and Australia add and drop a service to view a movie or series; 71% stopped buying physical music
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Ziff Davis acquires PopSci, Dwell, Business of Home, and Domino from Recurrent Ventures; one M&A executive estimated the price of the deal at less than $20M
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Brendan Carr says an FCC inquiry into media sports rights might not lead to new rules; Fox and Sinclair have filed comments supporting sports on broadcast TV
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Some NYT staffers say a white male editor's claim that he faced discrimination is absurd and hands the Trump administration a weapon to persecute journalists
 

 
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Wired:
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China

The Information:
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Intel's stock jumps 5%+ after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 500%+ in the past year
 
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