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3:15 PM ET, May 28, 2026

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New York Times:
Bari Weiss appoints longtime tech journalist Nick Bilton as the executive producer of 60 Minutes, replacing Tanya Simon, a 30-year veteran of the show  —  Bari Weiss, CBS's editor in chief, named Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, as the show's executive producer.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Bari Weiss ousted two senior 60 Minutes executive producers, Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailovich, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega  —  CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shook up the TV-news industry's most-watched and best-regarded property Thursday …
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Sharyn Alfonsi says her 60 Minutes contract expiration “was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting”
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page that lets users prompt it to create a constantly refreshing feed, available to signed-in US users with history on  —  YouTube isn't exactly replacing the traditional search bar, but it is supplementing it with a way to watch a …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025  —  CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN's content.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: CNBC hires The Information's Ken Brown as the network's new managing editor of digital and editorial strategy  —  The Information's Ken Brown is joining CNBC as managing editor of digital and editorial strategy.  —  Editor in Chief David Cho wrote in a memo to staff that Brown …
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Lucy Schiller / Columbia Journalism Review:
After doing away with programmatic ads, the time people spend on The American Prospect is up ~2X and a recent membership drive added ~500 new recurring donors  —  An ad appeared on the website of the American Prospect, featuring two cartoon people staring deeply into each other's eyes.
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Report on AI content licensing marketplaces: TollBit/Sphere.ai takes 0% from rights holders, ScalePost takes 15%, Cloudflare takes 30%, and ProRata takes 50%  —  A new report from the thinktank Open Markets Institute scopes out the current state of AI content licensing for news publishers.
Bloomberg:
The top US trade representative says a draft German law that would force US streaming services to invest in German film violates the new EU-US trade deal  —  President Donald Trump's top trade official criticized a German draft law that would force American streaming services to invest …
Reuters:
Trump refiles his $10B defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Murdoch, and others over a WSJ article asserting his name was on a 2003 Epstein letter  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion in damages against the Wall Street Journal …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: NPR lays off 10 journalists, including some veteran reporters, and gives buyouts to at least 18 news staffers to save $8M amid federal funding cuts  —  NPR has laid off 10 journalists, including some veteran reporters, in an attempt to save money and reorganize the newsroom.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed  —  Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.
 
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YouTube makes its AI content labels more prominent on desktop and mobile, and will apply them automatically if it detects “significant photorealistic AI use”
 

 
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Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France

Aisha Down / The Guardian:
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more
 
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