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10:50 AM ET, May 29, 2026

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Michael Calderone / New York Magazine:
Q&A with the FCC's Anna Gomez on the FCC's “policymaking by mob”, the high likelihood of a Disney win against the FCC, the risks of foreign investment in media  —  When Disney settled with Donald Trump for $15 million over his defamation suit against ABC News' George Stephanopoulos …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC submits license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency but says FCC's order violates the First Amendment  —  Disney's ABC has submitted its license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency — but said it is doing so “under protest.”
George Winslow / TV Tech:
In a public note, the FCC reminds broadcasters of public interest obligations and stresses that the agency can enforce rules and possibly take away licenses  —  Public notice says the government could get ‘billions’ by auctioning broadcast spectrum and asserted its the power to yank licenses for ‘engaging in news distortion’
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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Max Tani / Semafor:
An interview with Nick Bilton on working in TV news for the first time, building 60 Minutes' digital presence, having support from David Ellison, and more  —  The News  —  “My job is going to be rethinking how we tell stories in a completely new way,” Nick Bilton, who was tapped …
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
Holly Bishop / The Independent:
A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' “hyper-real and persuasive” nature  —  - BBC Question Time aired a special episode on AI, featuring a panel composed of AI-generated historical figures.
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James Faris / Business Insider:
Internal doc: Disney plans to bring Hulu's content and features to Disney+ by year's end, and to decommission the Hulu app after users have transitioned  —  Disney's streaming tech teams are working to make the stand-alone Hulu app obsolete, though the company says “there are no current plans to sunset” it.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Sun publisher Dovid Efune revives The Washington Star on Substack and sues NOTUS, which plans to rebrand as The Star, for trademark infringement  —  First, The Star was born.  Now, The Washington Star is reborn.  Both are hoping to win readers ceded by recent layoffs at The Washington Post.
Kari McMahon / A Media Operator:
Lookout Local, which launched in 2020 and now has two sites, expects its Santa Cruz, CA, site to be profitable by year-end and plans to have five sites by 2028  —  Lookout Local launched as a local news outlet in Santa Cruz, Calif., during the pandemic.  This year, it's expected to hit profitability.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS says it now expects to turn a $15M profit on late night, thanks to Byron Allen's time buy of the former Late Show time slot, which was losing $40M annually  —  A network rep said that late night was “cost prohibitive” to keep programming itself.  Allen's ‘Comics Unleashed’ debuted to 1.1 million viewers.
Bloomberg:
Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists  —  Music has been core to TikTok's identity since its inception.  What started as a lipsyncing app called Musical.ly morphed …
Discussion: Music Ally and CNN, more at Techmeme »
 
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Insiders say the nonfiction book publishing industry lacks contractual standards for AI use, leaving it vulnerable to copyright infringement and hallucinations
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out a Standard.site integration, letting users read long form articles, blog posts, and newsletters published across AT Protocol-powered apps
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: CNBC hires The Information's Ken Brown as the network's new managing editor of digital and editorial strategy
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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%
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
 

 
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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access”

Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US estimates unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; Silicon Valley told the White House it could become an existential threat
 
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