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8:05 AM ET, June 3, 2026

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News terminates 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley's contract; Nick Bilton says Pelley's “antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear”  —  CBS News has terminated “60 Minutes” veteran Scott Pelley after the journalist and executives felt they could not find …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Source: CBS News fired Scott Pelley “for cause” hours after he met Tuesday with Bari Weiss, Nick Bilton, Tom Cibrowski, and CBS HR over his 60 Minutes criticism  —  People in entertainment TV shows Media  —  CBS News fired veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Scott Pelley says Paramount “is casting this legend aside”, weakening 60 Minutes “to curry favor with” Trump, and CBS “instructed me to inject falsehoods”  —  Scott Pelley said he no longer recognizes “60 Minutes” in the months following the takeover …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
A US federal judge orders NOTUS to temporarily suspend its planned rebrand as The Star, after The Washington Star's owner sued NOTUS for trademark infringement  —  NOTUS, a political news website, must temporarily suspend its plans to rebrand, a judge ruled in a trademark dispute brought by The Washington Star.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The WHCA reschedules its annual dinner to July 24 with “significantly enhanced safety measures”; Trump says he'll attend the event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel  —  WHCA President Weijia Jiang wrote in an email to members, “Rescheduling was not automatic.
Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC:
The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes  —  Online publishers can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results n the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced.
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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
AI image startup Black Forest Labs says Martin Scorsese became a partner and adviser in 2025 and used its tech to storyboard during preproduction for a film  —  Hollywood just hit the tipping point in its acceptance of artificial intelligence.  —  Martin Scorsese, the living embodiment …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
AI music startup Suno raised $400M led by Bond at a $5.4B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February  —  Suno Inc., a startup that enables people to make music using artificial intelligence, has raised $400 million at a valuation of $5.4 billion.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
SPUR, which includes the FT, The Guardian, and the BBC and seeks to establish shared AI licensing standards, adds ~20 publishers in a major global expansion  —  AI news licensing standards coalition SPUR has added almost 20 publisher members in a major international expansion of its work.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Matt Slater / The Athletic:
An interview with Gary Lineker on his BBC exit, calling it a “marriage” that “petered out”, Goalhanger's World Cup coverage with Netflix, The Overlap, and more  —  There is a giant chessboard on the ceiling above the coffee bar, black vines and forked lightning painted on the walls …
Discussion: The Sun
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Nine media advocacy groups claim the Paramount-WBD merger is an “existential threat to the free press”, suggesting CNN would face firings like 60 Minutes has  —  The coalition of nine journalism advocacy groups calls the “60 Minutes” firings “a grotesque effort ... to appease a sitting president”
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Q&A with Paramount CLO Makan Delrahim, an ex-DOJ antitrust regulator, who says concerns about the WBD deal are “fear-mongering” and “antisemitic”
Sanjai P R / Bloomberg:
Sources: Indian media giant JioStar is planning a slate of series that will be written, animated, voiced, and edited entirely by AI for its JioHotstar platform  —  Sign up for the daily India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi - an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise.
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg:
Canal+ rises in its Johannesburg Stock Exchange debut, with the secondary listing marking the completion of its multibillion-dollar MultiChoice acquisition  —  Canal+ SA rose in its debut on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with the secondary listing of the French media giant marking …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Versant invests in microdrama streaming app GammaTime's Series A to take a minority stake; GammaTime raised a $14M seed in October 2025  —  Versant Media wants to sweat the short stuff.  —  The media company, which owns MS NOW and CNBC and was spun off from NBCUniversal earlier this year …
 
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Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
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Dan Murphy / ESPN:
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