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Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/891933/meta-oversight-board-ai-labels-deepfake-c2pa-facebook-instagram
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YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/youtube-deepfake-detection-journalists-politicians
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An audit says USAGM failed to provide information for a required annual review of its 2025 finances, and auditors declined to express an opinion on its numbers (Minho Kim/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/politics/voice-of-america-audit.html
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USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years (Katie Robertson/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/business/media/usa-today-jamie-stockwell-top-editor.html
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Meta emails advertisers about "location fees" in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/meta-hikes-fees-for-advertisers-to-cover-europe-s-digital-taxes
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright
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An interview with Lucia Osborne-Crowley about enduring threats and sexual harassment to report on Ghislaine Maxwell, her book about the Maxwell trial, and more (Melissa Denes/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/lucia-osborne-crowley-tenacious-traumatic-fight-expose-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein
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An interview with Conan O'Brien about hosting the Oscars for the second time, late night TV's steady decline, his podcast and HBO Max travelogue, and more (Mikey O'Connell/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/conan-obrien-interview-oscars-2026-1236523430/
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Paramount President Jeff Shell faces a $150M lawsuit over an alleged PR contract from an ex-advisor who also claims Shell disclosed Paramount's plans to him (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-jeff-shell-sued-150-million-pr-contract-1236682484/
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The Knight First Amendment Institute and Protect Democracy sue the Trump admin for its policy targeting noncitizens whose work the government deems "censorship" (Shannon Bond/NPR)

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuit
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A look at Tennis Channel, which had a revenue of $265M in 2025, as its CEO Jeff Blackburn leads a major overhaul to capitalize on the sport's surging popularity (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-09/tennis-is-having-a-moment-can-the-tennis-channel-capitalize
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Netflix divests from Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand As Ever, 11 months after it launched, as Markle's Netflix series With Love seemingly ramps down (Matt Donnelly/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/meghan-markle-netflix-as-ever-netflix-divests-1236681185/
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Megyn Kelly says 60 Minutes made "deceptive edits" to a Pete Hegseth interview to "rehabilitate" Israel's role in Iran war because of Weiss' "pro-Israel" stance (Sean James/Mediaite)

https://www.mediaite.com/media/megyn-kelly-slams-60-minutes-for-making-bllshit-edits-to-hegseth-interview-to-push-bari-weisss-pro-israel-slant
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Wasserman rebrands as The Team as Casey Wasserman's talent and management agency intensifies its efforts to find a buyer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wasserman-rebrands-the-team-as-sales-process-1236525448/
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Once averse to politics, Meta is now paying political creators thousands per month to post on Facebook; one liberal creator says Meta paid him $268K in January (Kyle Tharp/Chaotic Era)

https://www.chaoticera.news/p/on-facebook-it-now-pays-to-post-about-politics
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Bill O'Reilly launches a new weekly interview podcast called We'll Do It Live, debuting in the same week as Sean Hannity's similar show Hang Out (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bill-oreilly-interview-podcast-well-do-it-live-launch-1236682046/
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Peacock acquires US streaming rights to SNL UK, set to premiere on March 21, with episodes streaming the day after they air in the UK (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/snl-uk-stream-peacock-us-1236525226/
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The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/livenation-antitrust-justice-department-0a6ef66f497e5f626096de753bfff8ce
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ESPN hires six sports journalists, including enterprise reporter Kent Babb, who were laid off from WaPo when the newspaper eliminated 300+ jobs in February (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/espn-hires-six-washington-post-sports-journalists-1236682057/
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CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane says he is leaving the network, and looking "forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share" his work (Scott MacFarlane/Scott MacFarlane on LinkedIn)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macfarlane-3b402b1_i-just-shared-this-note-with-my-wonderful-share-7436766070134185984-6TtY
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EchoStar reports losing 168K subscribers in Q4 for 7M in total, including 1.98M Sling TV subscribers; pay TV revenue fell 11% YoY to $2.3B; SATS jumps 6%+ (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dish-tv-owner-echostar-q4-2025-earnings-subscriber-loss-1236519371/
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Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/business/kickstarter-everette-taylor-interview-remote-four-day-workweek.html
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An interview with Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr, who have helmed 7News Perth's nightly TV news for 40+ years and are the world's longest-serving news anchor team (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/business/media/anchors-rick-ardon-susannah-carr-perth-australia.html
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A Q&A with Houston Chronicle executives and local creator Shawn Singh on partnering with creators, who the outlet sees as "freelancers for the digital age" (Nieman Lab)

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/same-values-same-mission-same-ethics-how-the-houston-chronicle-chooses-creators-to-work-with/
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Ted Sarandos interview on the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there'll be cuts of $16B+, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-01/netflix-s-co-ceo-explains-why-he-quit-the-warner-bros-fight
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Inside the Podcast Business Summit and interviews with Kara Swisher, Adam Friedland, and others about how video podcasts won over audio, paywalls, ads, and more (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-26/the-revolution-in-the-podcast-business-according-to-the-people-leading-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjEzOTQ3NSwiZXhwIjoxNzcyNzQ0Mjc1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQjMxWFRLSUpIWEUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2RjVFRDg4M0RCMDU0QUQwODc0QTE3MUNBOEI0MUY5NSJ9.u-SKpRBjDhN3GSShnjpDJMzDQeyxRNI_paYT6RWGJDw
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Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-deal-warner-bros-discover-3b33b02c?st=RVyJGn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters held a town hall to explain Netflix's decision to withdraw from the WBD bid; the town hall excluded a Q&A session (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)

https://deadline.com/2026/02/netflix-town-hall-after-warner-bros-paramount-ted-sarandos-1236739331/
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Sources: WBD staff are bracing for widespread layoffs as David Ellison wants $6B in "synergies"; the internal mood is grim as staff preferred Netflix's proposal (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/business/warner-bros-paramount-reaction.html
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UK minister Josh Simons resigns over allegations that a think tank he led has probed some journalists and falsely linked them to a "pro-Kremlin" network (Henry Dyer/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together
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Cinema operators are relieved Paramount won WBD due to its support for theatrical releases, but skeptical about its plans to increase output and sustain windows (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/warner-bros-sale-paramount-netflix-wont-save-movie-theaters-1236674293/
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How Paramount's David Ellison deployed financial backing and political lobbying, including his well-connected chief legal adviser, to beat Netflix and win WBD (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/how-david-ellison-outlasted-netflix-in-the-warner-bros-bidding-war
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SEO agency Clickout bought The Escapist and two other UK-based gaming sites, fired and replaced staff with AI, and filled the sites with content about casinos (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/staff-journalists-sacked-and-misleadingly-replaced-with-ai-writers/
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The FCC approves Charter's $34.5B merger with Cox, combining cable, fiber, and cloud units, and taking the Cox name and using Spectrum for consumer business (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

https://deadline.com/2026/02/charter-cox-merger-fcc-1236738909/
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Paramount agrees to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-mega-deal-official-1236517004/
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One analyst says European regulators are unlikely to block a Paramount-WBD deal; another says it's likely that regulators would slow down the approval process (Deadline)

https://deadline.com/2026/02/paramount-warner-deal-donald-trump-eu-regulation-1236738452/
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Sources: Paramount has paid the $2.8B breakup fee owed to Netflix; WBD is expected to announce Friday that it signed an agreement to be acquired by Paramount (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/paramount-is-said-to-have-paid-2-8-billion-netflix-breakup-fee
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Memo: another CBS News producer leaves, after 46 years, and says, "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/27/cbs-news-political-bias-paramount-warner-bros
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CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure (CNN)

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17722120321108aa883dc7fda/raw
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The international film community sees Paramount's potential WBD acquisition with optimism for theatrical windows and worry about a reduced number of film buyers (Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/paramount-wbd-merger-optimism-concern-global-players-1236674501/
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The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K+ users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)

https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netflix-streamers-uk-ofcom-enhanced-regulation-investigation-1236671023/
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Source: as WaPo dismantled its metro and sports coverage, The Baltimore Banner registered the domains dcbanner.com and thedcbanner.com and plans a DC expansion (Natalie Korach/Status)

https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-local-sports-coverage
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