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1:25 PM ET, June 2, 2026

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New York Times:
Leaked recording: in a meeting, Scott Pelley told Nick Bilton he had “slender” qualifications for his new job; Bilton said Pelley would not “intimidate” him  —  In an explosive staff meeting, Mr. Pelley, a correspondent for the long-running Sunday news show …
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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Sources: in a heated meeting with 60 Minutes staff and new executive producer Nick Bilton, correspondent Scott Pelley said Bari Weiss is “murdering” the show  —  Pelley reportedly rebuked CBS ousting show's executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The DOD designates its press office a classified space and bans journalists from accessing it, saying speechwriters in the facility handle classified material  —  The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels  —  Meta is testing a new “Series” feature for Reels that's designed to make it easier to keep up with serialized content on Instagram and Facebook, the company told TechCrunch.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions  —  On Tuesday, Elon Musk-owned social network X launched a new feature, “React with Video,” that aims to expand the types of commentary on the platform.
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New York Times:
Barry Diller's People Inc. offers to buy control of MGM Resorts at an $18B valuation, including debt, seeking the 73.9% stake it does not already own
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM partners with Tubi on a non-exclusive distribution and advertising deal for a selection of its podcasts, including Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend  —  The audio giant has struck a distribution and advertising deal to put podcasts on the free streamer.
Dan Murphy / ESPN:
Letter: Congress summons NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify June 10 about the league's broadcast deals and whether it should retain antitrust exemptions  —  NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been summoned by Congress to testify about the league's broadcast contracts and whether …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House Correspondents' Association reschedules its annual dinner to July 24 with “significantly enhanced safety measures”; the event's venue is TBD  —  The White House Correspondents' Association is rescheduling its annual dinner for July 24, in what will be a more intimate event with “enhanced safety measures.”
Carla Sertin / Wired:
Q&A with Palestinian journalist Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh, who runs @Muslim with 14M+ social media followers, on appealing to younger readers, Meta, Trump, and more  —  Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh was just trying to find an outlet for Muslim news.  Now he has more than 12 million followers.
Adam Makary / Wired Middle East:
How journalists in Sudan are turning to encrypted networks, satellite imagery, and citizen reporting to document the war, as militias restrict media operations  —  As access collapses, journalists turn to encrypted networks, satellite imagery and citizen reporting to document the war.
Discussion: The Week
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety  —  The changes, after Meta's legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Condé Nast shifts Glamour's business model to prioritize affiliate-link commerce over journalism, a stark example of how women's magazines have declined  —  Job cuts at Glamour and a greater focus on posts with shopping tips offer one of the clearest examples of the waning reign of women's magazines.
The New York Times Company:
A.G. Sulzberger says NYT has spent over $20M on legal fees over the past two and a half years on its AI lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity  —  A.G. spoke today at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, delivering these prepared remarks.  —  The era of artificial intelligence announced …
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Corbin Bolies / Variety:
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says AI companies are making choices that “violate settled law” and could lead to “a great deal of unnecessary harm” to the news business
 
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Jimmy Kimmel says he finds it hard to believe reports that Stephen Colbert's show suddenly started losing $40M a year, calling them “made-up numbers”
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve says the Steam Machine, its new living room Linux PC, starts at $1,049 for the 512GB base model without a controller, and will go on sale starting June 29
 
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