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6:30 PM ET, June 9, 2026

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Axios:
Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes  —  Paramount has held preliminary conversations with several candidates for a business-side counterpart to CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss …
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New York Times:
Lesley Stahl says David Ellison called her and promised to respect editorial independence at 60 Minutes, a sign he is taking steps to calm turmoil at the show  —  David Ellison told Lesley Stahl, one of three remaining correspondents for the news program, that he would respect the show's editorial decisions after a tumultuous stretch.
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Email: the WH press corps won't be allowed on White House grounds Sunday due to the UFC fight; only press poolers will be allowed unless UFC gives credentials  —  The White House is ceding control of who gets into the fight event on the South Lawn, in a break with tradition.  —  Summary
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount Skydance is open to selling some children's TV network assets to help win EU approval of its $110B bid for WBD ahead of a July 7 deadline
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Digital Content Next, which represents major US publishers, sends Common Crawl a cease-and-desist demanding it stop scraping and remove copyrighted content  —  Digital news publishers in the US have raised “significant legal concerns” over the scraping of their content by Common Crawl Foundation.
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes the first release of 2026 to cross $1B in global grosses; Michael Jackson biopic Michael is on the verge of crossing $900M  —  The Universal/Illumination film crossed the milestone after its ninth weekend in theaters  —  After nine weekends in theaters …
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Backrooms, which has a budget of ~$10M, becomes A24's highest grossing movie ever with $212.6M in global box office in ten days, beating Marty Supreme's $191.2M
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others  —  Reuters and Time are taking a new approach to bot blocking.  Both publishers have recently started blocking all AI bots by default …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Corp. signs a new deal to show a wide range of NFL games via its Mexican outlets, including transmissions of Thursday Night Football and the Super Bowl  —  Fox Corp. said it secured a new deal to show a wide range of NFL games via its Mexican outlets, including transmissions of …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News integrates Outkick into Fox News Digital, five years after acquiring the sports brand; Clay Travis will exit the site to become a Fox contributor  —  Travis founded the site and sold it to Fox five years ago, but will continue to appear on Fox News and host ‘Outkick the Show with Clay Travis’ on FS1.
Calum Jaspan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia's ABC MD Hugh Marks says Justin Stevens' exit was “inevitable” after disputes over newsroom direction, and Stevens was unaware he was being replaced  —  ABC boss Hugh Marks says news chief Justin Stevens wasn't aware the public broadcaster was in the process of replacing …
Washington Post:
A reconstruction of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil's final hours shows that she bled to death, sources say after the IDF denied access to rescuers  —  A Post reconstruction of Amal Khalil's final hours in Lebanon found that Israel's military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump's lawyers tell SCOTUS that he intends to ask for the revival of his $475M defamation suit against CNN over use of the term “Big Lie” in its 2020 reporting  —  President Donald Trump told the US Supreme Court he intends to ask the justices to revive his $475 million defamation lawsuit …
 
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Leo Schwartz / The Information:
Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI models; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity

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