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Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company (Josh Funk/Associated Press) - 2025-12-30T21:55:01-05:00

Josh Funk / Associated Press:
Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company  —  Lee Enterprises announced a compromise Tuesday with billionaire investor David Hoffmann, who offered to take over the nation's third …

George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says CBS News EIC Bari Weiss "is dismantling CBS News as we speak" (Brent Lang/Variety) - 2025-12-30T21:05:00-05:00

Brent Lang / Variety:
George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says CBS News EIC Bari Weiss “is dismantling CBS News as we speak”  —  When George Clooney was preparing to make his Broadway debut appearing as CBS news correspondent Edward R. Murrow in …

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18 (Summer Ballentine/The Detroit News) - 2025-12-30T20:40:02-05:00

Summer Ballentine / The Detroit News:
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18  —  A nearly four-decade-long business partnership between The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended Sunday …

America's Test Kitchen agrees to purchase recipe site Food52 for $6.5M; Food52 said a sudden cash sweep by its lender, Avidbank, forced it into Chapter 11 (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-30T18:05:00-05:00

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
America's Test Kitchen agrees to purchase recipe site Food52 for $6.5M; Food52 said a sudden cash sweep by its lender, Avidbank, forced it into Chapter 11  —  Cooking television show America's Test Kitchen has agreed to purchase recipe site Food52, which said it was forced to file bankruptcy …

Sources: WBD plans to reject Paramount's revised takeover bid at a board meeting next week, viewing the $30-a-share cash bid as still inferior to Netflix's bid (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-30T16:30:00-05:00

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans to reject Paramount's revised takeover bid at a board meeting next week, viewing the $30-a-share cash bid as still inferior to Netflix's bid  —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. plans to once again reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance Corp. after the rival media company amended …

A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) - 2025-12-30T16:05:02-05:00

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies  —  Katherine Maher knew that running NPR was going to be difficult.  But since taking over as chief executive last year, she has confronted one crisis after another.

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic) - 2025-12-30T14:55:01-05:00

Jordy Fee-Platt / The Athletic:
Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information  —  Unknown just a few years ago, the prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have gained wider recognition in recent weeks.

A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr) - 2025-12-30T14:00:00-05:00

Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr:
A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022  —  A New York judge today denied Fox's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of the Ukrainian journalist killed while working for the network (in 2022) despite the fact that her father signed a release to receive benefits. Judge: “When the Kuvshynovs signed the waiver

Angel Studios says Angel Guild, its program through which members are given a say on which projects the studio produces, has two million paid subscribers (Zac Ntim/Deadline) - 2025-12-30T10:50:00-05:00

Zac Ntim / Deadline:
Angel Studios says Angel Guild, its program through which members are given a say on which projects the studio produces, has two million paid subscribers  —  The Angel Guild is the studio's grassroots membership program.  Members pay a monthly fee and serve as virtual co-producers on every project …

The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark) - 2025-12-30T08:05:00-05:00

Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT  —  Tenet Media's Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-12-30T06:05:13-05:00

The Hollywood Reporter:
Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20%  —  The M&A-boosted Warner Bros. Discovery, as well as Sphere Entertainment, Fox, and Imax were among the gainers, while Netflix moved little …

Nielsen: CBS was 2025's most-watched network in primetime despite a 12% YoY drop in average viewers, followed by NBC, ABC, and Fox, up 10% due to the Super Bowl (Michael Schneider/Variety) - 2025-12-30T04:50:00-05:00

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Nielsen: CBS was 2025's most-watched network in primetime despite a 12% YoY drop in average viewers, followed by NBC, ABC, and Fox, up 10% due to the Super Bowl  —  Complete Broadcast, Cable and Pay TV Ratings Primetime Ranker for 2025 in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49  —  What a difference a Super Bowl makes.

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap) - 2025-12-30T01:05:01-05:00

Tess Patton / The Wrap:
Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY  —  A wave of consolidation, AI-driven change and cost-cutting pushed entertainment and media layoffs sharply higher in 2025

Streaming metrics underwent a rethink in 2025, as Netflix and Disney pivoted away from subscriber numbers to revenue per user, engagement, and other metrics (Deadline) - 2025-12-29T21:05:00-05:00

Deadline:
Streaming metrics underwent a rethink in 2025, as Netflix and Disney pivoted away from subscriber numbers to revenue per user, engagement, and other metrics  —  After more than five years of gushing red ink, 2025 was the year when streaming across the board started to turn a profit.

Leaked letter: a group of "prominent journalists" at CBS News are preparing a petition urging David Ellison to uphold editorial independence at the network (New York Post) - 2025-12-29T16:10:01-05:00

New York Post:
Leaked letter: a group of “prominent journalists” at CBS News are preparing a petition urging David Ellison to uphold editorial independence at the network  —  CBS News journalists are preparing a petition urging Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to uphold editorial independence …

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Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company (Josh Funk/Associated Press) - 2025-12-30T21:55:01-05:00

George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says CBS News EIC Bari Weiss "is dismantling CBS News as we speak" (Brent Lang/Variety) - 2025-12-30T21:05:00-05:00

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18 (Summer Ballentine/The Detroit News) - 2025-12-30T20:40:02-05:00

America's Test Kitchen agrees to purchase recipe site Food52 for $6.5M; Food52 said a sudden cash sweep by its lender, Avidbank, forced it into Chapter 11 (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-30T18:05:00-05:00

Sources: WBD plans to reject Paramount's revised takeover bid at a board meeting next week, viewing the $30-a-share cash bid as still inferior to Netflix's bid (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-30T16:30:00-05:00

A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) - 2025-12-30T16:05:02-05:00

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic) - 2025-12-30T14:55:01-05:00

A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr) - 2025-12-30T14:00:00-05:00

Angel Studios says Angel Guild, its program through which members are given a say on which projects the studio produces, has two million paid subscribers (Zac Ntim/Deadline) - 2025-12-30T10:50:00-05:00

The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark) - 2025-12-30T08:05:00-05:00

Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-12-30T06:05:13-05:00

Nielsen: CBS was 2025's most-watched network in primetime despite a 12% YoY drop in average viewers, followed by NBC, ABC, and Fox, up 10% due to the Super Bowl (Michael Schneider/Variety) - 2025-12-30T04:50:00-05:00

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap) - 2025-12-30T01:05:01-05:00

Streaming metrics underwent a rethink in 2025, as Netflix and Disney pivoted away from subscriber numbers to revenue per user, engagement, and other metrics (Deadline) - 2025-12-29T21:05:00-05:00

Leaked letter: a group of "prominent journalists" at CBS News are preparing a petition urging David Ellison to uphold editorial independence at the network (New York Post) - 2025-12-29T16:10:01-05:00

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Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company (Josh Funk/Associated Press) - 2025-12-30T21:55:01-05:00

Josh Funk / Associated Press:
Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company  —  Lee Enterprises announced a compromise Tuesday with billionaire investor David Hoffmann, who offered to take over the nation's third …

George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says CBS News EIC Bari Weiss "is dismantling CBS News as we speak" (Brent Lang/Variety) - 2025-12-30T21:05:00-05:00

Brent Lang / Variety:
George Clooney criticizes CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits with President Trump and says CBS News EIC Bari Weiss “is dismantling CBS News as we speak”  —  When George Clooney was preparing to make his Broadway debut appearing as CBS news correspondent Edward R. Murrow in …

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18 (Summer Ballentine/The Detroit News) - 2025-12-30T20:40:02-05:00

Summer Ballentine / The Detroit News:
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended their joint operating agreement, which began in 1989; The News plans to launch a Sunday print edition January 18  —  A nearly four-decade-long business partnership between The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended Sunday …

America's Test Kitchen agrees to purchase recipe site Food52 for $6.5M; Food52 said a sudden cash sweep by its lender, Avidbank, forced it into Chapter 11 (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-30T18:05:00-05:00

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
America's Test Kitchen agrees to purchase recipe site Food52 for $6.5M; Food52 said a sudden cash sweep by its lender, Avidbank, forced it into Chapter 11  —  Cooking television show America's Test Kitchen has agreed to purchase recipe site Food52, which said it was forced to file bankruptcy …

Sources: WBD plans to reject Paramount's revised takeover bid at a board meeting next week, viewing the $30-a-share cash bid as still inferior to Netflix's bid (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-30T16:30:00-05:00

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans to reject Paramount's revised takeover bid at a board meeting next week, viewing the $30-a-share cash bid as still inferior to Netflix's bid  —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. plans to once again reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance Corp. after the rival media company amended …

A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) - 2025-12-30T16:05:02-05:00

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies  —  Katherine Maher knew that running NPR was going to be difficult.  But since taking over as chief executive last year, she has confronted one crisis after another.

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic) - 2025-12-30T14:55:01-05:00

Jordy Fee-Platt / The Athletic:
Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information  —  Unknown just a few years ago, the prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have gained wider recognition in recent weeks.

A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr) - 2025-12-30T14:00:00-05:00

Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr:
A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022  —  A New York judge today denied Fox's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of the Ukrainian journalist killed while working for the network (in 2022) despite the fact that her father signed a release to receive benefits. Judge: “When the Kuvshynovs signed the waiver

Angel Studios says Angel Guild, its program through which members are given a say on which projects the studio produces, has two million paid subscribers (Zac Ntim/Deadline) - 2025-12-30T10:50:00-05:00

Zac Ntim / Deadline:
Angel Studios says Angel Guild, its program through which members are given a say on which projects the studio produces, has two million paid subscribers  —  The Angel Guild is the studio's grassroots membership program.  Members pay a monthly fee and serve as virtual co-producers on every project …

The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark) - 2025-12-30T08:05:00-05:00

Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT  —  Tenet Media's Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter) - 2025-12-30T06:05:13-05:00

The Hollywood Reporter:
Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20%  —  The M&A-boosted Warner Bros. Discovery, as well as Sphere Entertainment, Fox, and Imax were among the gainers, while Netflix moved little …

Nielsen: CBS was 2025's most-watched network in primetime despite a 12% YoY drop in average viewers, followed by NBC, ABC, and Fox, up 10% due to the Super Bowl (Michael Schneider/Variety) - 2025-12-30T04:50:00-05:00

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Nielsen: CBS was 2025's most-watched network in primetime despite a 12% YoY drop in average viewers, followed by NBC, ABC, and Fox, up 10% due to the Super Bowl  —  Complete Broadcast, Cable and Pay TV Ratings Primetime Ranker for 2025 in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49  —  What a difference a Super Bowl makes.

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap) - 2025-12-30T01:05:01-05:00

Tess Patton / The Wrap:
Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY  —  A wave of consolidation, AI-driven change and cost-cutting pushed entertainment and media layoffs sharply higher in 2025

Streaming metrics underwent a rethink in 2025, as Netflix and Disney pivoted away from subscriber numbers to revenue per user, engagement, and other metrics (Deadline) - 2025-12-29T21:05:00-05:00

Deadline:
Streaming metrics underwent a rethink in 2025, as Netflix and Disney pivoted away from subscriber numbers to revenue per user, engagement, and other metrics  —  After more than five years of gushing red ink, 2025 was the year when streaming across the board started to turn a profit.

Leaked letter: a group of "prominent journalists" at CBS News are preparing a petition urging David Ellison to uphold editorial independence at the network (New York Post) - 2025-12-29T16:10:01-05:00

New York Post:
Leaked letter: a group of “prominent journalists” at CBS News are preparing a petition urging David Ellison to uphold editorial independence at the network  —  CBS News journalists are preparing a petition urging Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to uphold editorial independence …