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10:15 AM 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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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
Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA launches a probe into Paramount's $110B acquisition of WBD, and sets an initial ruling deadline on August 7; the EU has already set a July 7 deadline  —  Britain's merger watchdog has opened a probe into Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.
Discussion: Deadline, Telegraph, Reuters and GOV.UK
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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.
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.
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Bending Spoons files for a US IPO, reporting a net income of $27.5M on revenue of $601M in Q1, vs. a net loss of $112.2M on revenue of $259M a year earlier  —  Vimeo parent Bending Spoons filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Monday, as a busy summer IPO window takes shape.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Politico shutters E&E News, the standalone energy brand it bought in December 2020, amid a reorganization that expands its energy-focused coverage  —  The Scoop  —  Politico is folding an energy spinoff brand it purchased years ago amid a reorganization which expands its energy-focused coverage.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NPR hires Nadine Zylstra, who was most recently Pinterest's global head of programming and original content, as chief content officer, starting in July  —  Nadine Zylstra is trading her Pinterest vision board to try to get her head around the future of public media.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Condé Nast filed a lawsuit against Goulash Unlimited, the worker-owned collective that revived Gourmet after discovering that Condé had let its trademark lapse  —  THE SCOOP  —  The parent company of the defunct food magazine Gourmet is not pleased that a group of journalists have revived it on their own.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Progressive site Zeteo plans to expand to the UK with a standalone site that will begin publishing this week, ahead of a hard launch in September  —  The Scoop  —  A popular independent lefty American media company is expanding to the United Kingdom.  —  On Tuesday, Zeteo …
Discussion: @maxwelltani and Zeteo
Jack Dunn / Variety:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says “many legacy journalists are completely out of touch”, in response to Scott Pelley's surprise over his 60 Minutes ousting  —  FCC boss Brendan Carr went after journalist Scott Pelley for claiming in his recent New York Times profile that it “hadn't occurred” …
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Q&A with Scott Pelley on his last days at 60 Minutes, CBS News' Bari Weiss era, “Black Thursday massacre” firings, confronting Nick Bilton publicly, and more
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