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12:20 PM ET, June 11, 2026

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Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: Lesley Stahl has inked a new two-year contract to remain a correspondent on 60 Minutes; her most recent deals were year-to-year  —  It's done.  Lesley Stahl has inked a new contract to remain as a correspondent on “60 Minutes,” according to people familiar with the matter.
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Reuters:
Sources: Nick Bilton hired TV production consultant Kelly Funke, to help manage his 60 Minutes transition, and a 24-year-old operations manager, Nick De Lucca
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
ITV says advertising revenues from the World Cup are about 30% higher than those from Euro 2024; Telemundo says it sold out of key World Cup ad inventory  —  Spending by US tech companies and major expansion of 2026 tournament lift revenues at struggling UK broadcaster
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Nikkei Asia:
Asian broadcasters pushed back against soaring 2026 FIFA World Cup rights fees; FIFA made major concessions in China and India due to unfavorable match times  —  TOKYO/SEOUL — Asia may be FIFA's biggest audience, but with many games in the upcoming World Cup in North America set …
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Sen. Maggie Hassan's report: Spotify removed 3,500 podcast accounts and 57,000 episodes promoting illegal online pharmacies between May and November 2025  —  Spotify has removed tens of thousands of phony podcasts promoting illegal online pharmacies, a new investigation has found …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
BBC Storyville plans to start making premium short documentaries alongside features for the first time, with 10- to 40-minute films for BBC Four and BBC iPlayer  —  The storied BBC documentary strand will begin making premium short docs alongside features for the first time …
Discussion: Televisual and BBC
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
The National Music Publishers' Association announces licensing agreements with AI music generation platforms Udio and Klay at its annual meeting  —  The National Music Publishers' Association used its annual meeting to unveil deals with Udio and Klay, even as the major trade org says its being vigilant about “bad actor” AI companies.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
An interview with The Times publisher Christopher Longcroft on digital revenue overtaking print soon, traffic growth despite Google changes, AI tools, and more  —  The Times is close to “cresting the hill” in terms of digital revenue overtaking print, according to executive vice president and publisher Christopher Longcroft.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech  —  Since the competition won't buy their tech, they're bringing it directly to users. … Deezer will now scan your playlists …
Kylie Madry / Reuters:
DAZN strikes a deal to bring DirecTV Latin America's DSPORTS channels with all World Cup matches to its platform in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay  —  Sports streaming platform DAZN, backed by British-American billionaire Len Blavatnik, said it had struck a deal …
 
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Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Survey: 81% of INN newsrooms used AI-based tools in 2025, compared to 63% in 2024 and 34% in 2023; common uses include meeting transcription and data analysis
Nathan Grayson / Aftermath:
Journalists say Ubisoft embargoed outlets reporting on its latest round of layoffs; Insider Gaming first broke the news based on details from sources
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
A US House committee held a hearing on whether leagues like the NFL should keep antitrust exemptions for media deals as more games move to streaming services
William James / Reuters:
After civil unrest in Belfast, Ofcom reminds social platforms to heed the Online Safety Act, including by mitigating risks of content that provokes violence
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Fubo and NBCUniversal reach a deal ending a months-long blackout, with NBCU's Spanish-language networks available Wednesday, English-language networks later
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
CAA and TPG's investment arm commit $250M to launch Compound Creative Holdings, a new company to invest in YouTube stars and podcasters
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works
 

 
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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest-ever IPO, after selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, giving it a market value of $1.77T

Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic backtracks on its decision to quietly limit Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, saying “requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8”, after backlash

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the startup expects Anthropic to make
 
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