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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 …
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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.”
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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’
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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.
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Reuters:
Trump files an amended lawsuit against News Corp and others over the WSJ story claiming his signature was on an Epstein birthday card; prior suit was thrown out — President Donald Trump on Wednesday refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion in damages against the Wall Street Journal …
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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:
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 …
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
A podcast industry taskforce, including Spotify, SiriusXM, and YouTube, has been meeting since 2025 to define what a podcast is and share info on ad measurement — Without a set definition “advertisers are deciding whose budget this is to come out of, there's oftentimes a tug of war …
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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 …
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.
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode — YouTube announced on Thursday it's introducing new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool …
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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 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
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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 …
