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Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO (Paul Roberts/Seattle Times) - 2025-11-19T22:25:00-05:00

Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-19T21:00:40-05:00

Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-19T20:55:00-05:00

The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs (Reuters) - 2025-11-19T20:40:01-05:00

The White House sends out a press release calling ABC News "a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network" and cataloging perceived offenses (Ted Johnson/Deadline) - 2025-11-19T19:20:00-05:00

Hearst plans to lay off 26 people at The Dallas Morning News, outsourcing print page production; the Dallas News Guild says the action violates its contract (Rachel Behrndt/WFAA-TV) - 2025-11-19T18:30:00-05:00

All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) - 2025-11-19T18:10:00-05:00

Guardian US EIC Betsy Reed says the outlet expects to bring in $50M+ this year, up from $43M last year, and plans to grow newsletters and launch a news podcast (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review) - 2025-11-19T17:00:44-05:00

MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic) - 2025-11-19T16:25:00-05:00

Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2025-11-19T15:55:01-05:00

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times) - 2025-11-19T15:40:01-05:00

A look at Verdict with Ted Cruz, currently the most popular podcast of any sitting US politician, which puts Ted Cruz ahead of rivals in a potential 2028 WH bid (Ben Jacobs/Politico) - 2025-11-19T14:20:00-05:00

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times) - 2025-11-19T13:20:00-05:00

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times) - 2025-11-19T12:25:01-05:00

The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility (Colby Hall/Mediaite) - 2025-11-19T11:35:01-05:00

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Mediagazer - 2025-11-19T22:25:51-05:00

Paul Roberts / Seattle Times:
Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO — Ryan Blethen will serve as the next publisher of The Seattle Times, the daily newspaper his great-great grandfather founded in 1896, the company announced Wednesday.

Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-19T21:00:40-05:00

Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company — Netflix Inc. has told management of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. that it will keep releasing the studio's films in theaters …

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools — The world's largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service …

The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs (Reuters) - 2025-11-19T20:40:01-05:00

Reuters:
The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs — - FCC reviews network-affiliate agreements after Trump's ABC license comments — FCC to ask whether national broadcasters …

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House sends out a press release calling ABC News “a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network” and cataloging perceived offenses — A day after President Donald Trump blew up at ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce and called for the network to lose …

Rachel Behrndt / WFAA-TV:
Hearst plans to lay off 26 people at The Dallas Morning News, outsourcing print page production; the Dallas News Guild says the action violates its contract — Nearly two months after officially acquiring the paper, Hearst will lay off 26 people at the Dallas Morning News, the paper confirmed Wednesday.

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired — Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts.

Ivan L. Nagy / Columbia Journalism Review:
Guardian US EIC Betsy Reed says the outlet expects to bring in $50M+ this year, up from $43M last year, and plans to grow newsletters and launch a news podcast — This fall, as publicly funded media was hollowed out by budget cuts, billionaire owners bowed to political pressure …

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years — Major League Baseball announced its new TV deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN on Wednesday, restructuring its broadcast future.

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users — Feature debuts after streamer introduced text-based AI recaps last year … Now Amazon is using AI to add sight, sound and motion to the mix.

Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in “uncharted waters” — A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher's books because they had A.I.-generated covers.

Ben Jacobs / Politico:
A look at Verdict with Ted Cruz, currently the most popular podcast of any sitting US politician, which puts Ted Cruz ahead of rivals in a potential 2028 WH bid — Three times a week, late in the evening, a middle-aged man pulls a microphone out of a Pelican briefcase …

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times) - 2025-11-19T13:20:00-05:00

Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation — The firm's Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale.

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in — Agreement with Udio could allow fans to create their own songs using licensed tracks if artists opt in

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility — When news broke last September about Olivia Nuzzi's alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my first instinct—within minutes, actually—was sympathy.

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