5:40 AM ET, June 19, 2026
June 19, 2026
June 18, 2026
7:40 PM
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
5:45 PM
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
The Washington Star and NOTUS have “amicably resolved” this lawsuit, and NOTUS is working toward coming up with a new name, a spox said https://x.com/...
5:25 PM
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
5:15 PM
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
4:30 PM
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
3:45 PM
Reuters:
Bertelsmann says US and German authorities have approved the planned merger of its music division BMG with rival Concord; it expects to close the deal in Q4
3:20 PM
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”
2:10 PM
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
1:40 PM
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
12:48 PM
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
12:30 PM
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
11:50 AM
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
11:40 AM
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
10:00 AM
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
8:55 AM
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
8:30 AM
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
6:50 AM
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
USA Today is using AI-assisted, pre-written soccer World Cup “shell files” for breaking news to capture traffic before Google's AI Overviews generate summaries
June 17, 2026
9:40 PM
Business Insider:
A top Disney and ESPN exec told staff that a beta version of an AI tool to create TV ads will debut in July, to serve smaller businesses without video assets
4:40 PM
Sarah Bahr / New York Times:
Q&A with Fernando Alfonso III, NYT's first Texas-based editor, on leading a new team of five Texas reporters and editors as they cover the state's complexity
3:15 PM
The Colorado Sun:
The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building
2:20 PM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account, as part of Mastodon 4.6
1:20 PM
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Email: BBC says commissioning spend will be reduced by £80M by March 2028 and TV development budget will be slashed by 15% annually
11:40 AM
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties
10:25 AM
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:
Reporters Without Borders and French journalists unions complain that billionaire Bernard Arnault has bought up almost all the country's business media outlets
10:05 AM
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M
9:10 AM
Zoe Engels / Mediaite:
Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026
8:55 AM
Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination
8:40 AM
Miles Klee / Wired:
Freedom of the Press Foundation says Paramount refused to air an ad criticizing Paramount's merger with WBD during the stream of the UFC White House event
8:20 AM
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Silk White, whose movies and TV shows, which have grossed ~$2M in the year to February, are distributed by Filmhub to online platforms like Tubi
7:20 AM
Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal:
Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new user in the YouTube Shorts feed
6:25 AM
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Analysts: UK social media ban is likely to cause £1.3B in digital ad cuts in 2027, with streaming services poised to benefit as advertisers seek to reach teens
June 16, 2026
11:00 PM
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Netflix says it is “not interested” and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours
7:40 PM
Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets
6:35 PM
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
With the success of Backrooms, Reddit is increasingly a source of IP and talent for Hollywood, including an upcoming film starring Sydney Sweeney
5:10 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
People Inc. acquires Hot Luck, an Austin-based food and music festival, as part of a push to bring live experiences to lifestyle brands
4:30 PM
Nick Pinto / Hell Gate:
Reporters at Schneps Media, which owns 100+ newspapers, sites, and other media properties across NYC, including amNewYork, vote to form a union
3:01 PM
CBC News:
Canada's CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, will no longer show NHL games after it was unable to reach a new sublicense deal with Rogers Sportsnet
2:25 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
USA Today adds 1,000 Marvel comics and an exclusive weekly, vertically formatted Spider-Man series to USA Today Play, expanding the app beyond puzzles and games
1:40 PM
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock
1:15 PM
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Consultancy Madison & Wall estimates a combined Fox and Roku would capture 14% of all US TV ad revenue and 16% of US streaming ad revenue
12:25 PM
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
New York Post Media Group is launching its first FAST channel with 150 hours of programming from across the NY Post, California Post, Page Six, and more
11:30 AM
Radio Prague International:
A Czech government draft law ends license fees for public media in favor of state funding, shrinking outlets' budgets; the bill needs parliamentary approval
10:25 AM
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Netflix is interested in acquiring Lionsgate and took a look at Roku, but a Roku deal would have faced tougher antitrust scrutiny than Fox's
9:55 AM
Michel Rose / Reuters:
France's media regulator orders CNews to comply with pluralism rules, putting Vincent Bolloré's conservative channel one step away from disciplinary action
9:20 AM
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta
8:40 AM
Nieman Lab:
RISJ's 2026 Digital News Report: social media and video networks are now more popular as a source of news than TV and owned and operated news websites and apps
7:05 AM
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Bari Weiss has met with journalists she considers free thinkers in London, as she considers CBS News and The Free Press' operations outside the US
June 15, 2026
11:35 PM
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Substack hires former Roku exec Dan Robbins as its first head of brand sponsorships, and launches Creator Kits for publishers interested in brand collaborations
9:15 PM
James Faris / Business Insider:
Buying Roku would make Fox the third-largest TV distributor in the US, behind YouTube and Disney, but ahead of Netflix, according to Nielsen's March data
5:15 PM
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
In a note to partners, Disney says Disney Branded Television is rebranding itself as Disney Kids & Family to reflect the nature of the division's content
4:35 PM
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the DOJ closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for WBD before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object
3:45 PM
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training
2:20 PM
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Lachlan Murdoch says the “expectation” of Fox, which will own two of the top free, ad-supported streamers, is to keep the Roku Channel and Tubi separate
1:25 PM
Clara Molot / Vanity Fair:
Sources, including current and former Unwell Media employees, say Alex Cooper's husband Matt Kaplan runs the show, describe his leadership as caustic, and more
12:00 PM
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix expands its iHeartMedia partnership to stream video episodes of podcasts from Martha Stewart and others; the episodes will no longer be on YouTube
11:05 AM
Assiatou Hann / CNBC:
Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, letting brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage
9:20 AM
CNBC:
Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the ~$22B Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27%
7:35 AM
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$25B, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX closes down 15.22%
7:15 AM
Liv McMahon / BBC:
The UK's social media ban will cover Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and more, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming
4:55 AM
Reuters:
Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s in an “Australia-plus model” to “give kids their childhood back”, set to take effect in spring 2027
June 14, 2026
11:50 PM
Max Tani / Semafor:
The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates