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12:30 PM ET, June 19, 2026

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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit  —  The deal formally winds down an era at Vox Media, which had sold its namesake site and podcast assets as well as New York magazine to James Murdoch.
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Netflix subscribers in France can now access TF1 broadcasts and TF1+ on-demand content within Netflix at no extra cost; TF1 handles ad sales and programming  —  A year after sending shockwaves through the television industry with news of their unexpected alliance, France's TF1 Group and Netflix …
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
A report by LA officials estimates that the Paramount-WBD deal places about 2.5K jobs in LA and 6K jobs globally at risk due to duplicative roles  —  A new estimate by local officials who are in the process of assessing the impact of David Ellison's $111 billion merger places 2,500 jobs …
Discussion: Media Play News
Andrew Cohen / InvestmentNews:
Robinhood plans to shutter the Sherwood News site in favor of newsletters and the Robinhood app; at least three reporters were cut in company layoffs this week  —  The fintech giant shifts its media strategy despite reporting record trading volumes this month amid its 10% staff reduction.
Hugo Lowell / Wired:
New book: Bezos told Trump that WaPo had been one of his worst investments and “the people there are terrible”; Trump told associates Bezos was “kissing my ass”  —  “You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman …
Variety:
Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment  —  The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios.
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars on July 2 and will route more than $100,000 to Sandy Hook families, as legal fights over the website continue  —  The Onion's staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones' brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
NOTUS says it has “amicably resolved” The Washington Star's lawsuit over NOTUS' planned rebrand as The Star and it is working toward a new name  —  The publication is abandoning a planned rebranding after resolving a trademark dispute with the new publisher of The Washington Star.
Kevin Roose:
NYT tech reporter Kevin Roose, host of Hard Fork with Casey Newton, is leaving the paper to launch a new show with Newton  —  I first visited The New York Times in 2010.  I was fresh out of college, jobless during a recession, and new to New York, when I got an out-of-the-blue email …
Financial Times:
Source: DAZN is restructuring its business with a new holding company to make it easier to raise money and explore a potential public listing  —  Lossmaking sports streamer restructures business to make it easier to raise new money  —  DAZN, the lossmaking sports streamer owned …
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Some TV streaming executives express unease about Fox's proposed Roku deal, wondering whether Fox would favor its own programming on a key TV distributor  —  Fox's Roku deal has sparked unease throughout the streaming industry over whether the media company could favor its own programming on a key TV gateway.
Discussion: Cord Cutters News and PCWorld
Patrick Brzeski / The Hollywood Reporter:
At a conference, an Amazon Prime Video exec says Prime Video works with 600+ content partners, including 70+ in Japan, 50+ in Australia, and 30+ in India  —  At Asia's leading media conference, held this week in Bali, Amazon regional entertainment leaders touted its radical localization strategies …
Discussion: Deadline, Fortune India and MediaNews4U
 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Ryan Coogler's Proximity Media strikes an overall deal with Netflix to develop series after Coogler's five-year TV deal with Disney ended
Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO Max discounts the price of its annual subscription plans by 28% for new and returning subscribers with expired or canceled subscriptions, through July 15
Adam Stern / Sports Business Journal:
Apple TV plans to remove its paywall for the F1 Austrian Grand Prix, offering practice, qualifying, and the June 28 Grand Prix for free to users with Apple IDs
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Stephen Capus, president and CEO of RFE/RL since 2024, announces his resignation, effective September 15, and will be succeeded by Lisa Curtis
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Stephen Bush / Financial Times:
The BBC will damage or scrap some crown jewels in current affairs by canceling The World Tonight, Crossing Continents, and Money Box Live, and making other cuts
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Forbes launches The Daily Brief, an AI-powered audio briefing that turns its top three stories of the day into a five-minute podcast, which is checked by humans
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
DMGT renames its consumer news division to Daily Mail, promotes Vere Harmsworth to executive chairman of Daily Mail, and transfers Metro to Harmsworth Media
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions

Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning

Financial Times:
Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger
 
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