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7:55 PM ET, May 20, 2026

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New York Times:
James Murdoch's Lupa Systems acquires around 50% of Vox Media, including its podcast network, New York magazine, and Vox.com, sources say for $300M+  —  James Murdoch is acquiring roughly half of Vox Media, a dramatic expansion in American media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Properties not included in the Lupa-Vox deal, including The Verge and Eater, will operate under a new independent company led by Vox president Ryan Pauley  —  Murdoch's company has agreed to acquire New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and Vox.com.  Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on the sale of Vox Media's podcast network, why buyers were interested in that network, and how remaining sites are in “good shape”  —  - Vox Media is splitting itself into two and selling half to media heir/investor James Murdoch.
Fox News:
Jeff Bezos defends WaPo layoffs, saying the outlet needs to be a profitable enterprise as “a measure of its relevance”, and noted it won a Pulitzer in 2026  —  Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday responded to criticism of the brutal round of layoffs …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Jeff Bezos says Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release Melania “was a good business decision”, denying that it was “a way of buying influence”  —  Jeff Bezos insists that Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release “Melania,” a documentary about the First Lady …
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Paramount hopes to close its acquisition of WBD by July 15, a far more ambitious timeline than Paramount has publicly telegraphed  —  Paramount is hoping to close its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery much sooner than the company has publicly stated, Status has learned.
Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land:
Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads  —  Table of Contents  —  Google is rolling out Gemini-powered conversational ad formats across AI Mode and Search as it looks to make ads more contextual,
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Ad tech company Viant partners with Ad Fontes Media to help advertisers target connected-TV news inventory based on scoring of political bias and reliability  —  The integration scores news programs on reliability and bias, giving buyers a more granular way to activate against inventory
Discussion: TV Tech, Business Wire and TVNewsCheck
Bloomberg:
Owl & Co. report: the podcast industry generated $9.2B in sales globally in 2025, up 23% YoY; 73% of the growth in the US came from video-related revenue  —  According to a new report, 73% of the podcast industry's growth last year in the US came from video-related revenue
Barbara Peng / Business Insider:
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng says she is leaving the company on June 30; Christian Baesler will become interim lead of the outlet  —  Today I am announcing that I will be leaving Business Insider.  —  This was not an easy decision for me.  I love Business Insider.
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
A look at Disney's 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight as Nate Silver says Disney is refusing to negotiate with him about restoring the site's archive  —  Nothing on the internet lasts forever.  But Disney's 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story.
 
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Audio from an all-hands: BBC's new DG Matt Brittin said he wants to use data to build a “sat nav around bias” and iPlayer is not doing a “good enough job”
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The Guardian:
Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use
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Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central:
Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Reuters' staff union files an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRB, saying a producer's contract ended after he discussed Reuters' ICE ties internally
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Semafor on YouTube:
An interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots co-host Joe Weisenthal on how the business of business media has evolved, why AI won't replace podcasters, and more
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney says select Hulu subscribers can now link their Hulu profiles to Disney+, bringing their Hulu watch history, watchlist, and recommendations into Disney+
 

 
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Clara Murray / Financial Times:
Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade

Sydney Morning Herald:
WiseTech shares fell 11% after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down ~67% in the past year
 
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