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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: 15 mins ago

Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Recognition Music Group, which includes works of Justin Bieber and Neil Young, from Blackstone for between $3.5B and $4B

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: 40 mins ago

Sources: Google has proposed changes to how it displays news results across Search in a bid to avoid adding to its €9.5B running total of EU competition fines

Michael Savage / The Guardian: 60 mins ago

WSJ EIC Emma Tucker says powerful figures are increasingly using the “PR strategy” of suing media outlets before they have even published a story

CNN: 2 hours ago

Ted Turner, a pioneer of 24-hour cable TV news who founded CNN, dies at 87; the Ohio-born Atlanta businessman eventually sold his networks to Time Warner

MS NOW: 2 hours ago

Sources: the FBI launched a criminal leak investigation into Atlantic journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick after her report on Director Kash Patel's alcohol consumption

Kevin Dolak / The Hollywood Reporter: 2 hours ago

Shane Smith relaunches Vice News as a social-first outlet for his podcast and news reports and a brand partnership vehicle, following its 2023 bankruptcy

Ted Turner, a pioneer of 24-hour cable TV news who founded CNN, dies at 87; the Ohio-born Atlanta businessman eventually sold his networks to Time Warner

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

Disney reports Q2 streaming revenue up 13% YoY to $5.49B and operating income up 88% to $582M; ESPN operating income fell 5% to $652M and revenue up 2% to $4.6B

Katie Robertson / New York Times:

The NYT reports adding 310K digital-only subscribers in Q1, taking its total subscribers to 13.1M, on pace to meet its goal of 15M subscribers by end of 2027

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The NYT reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $712.2M, digital-only subscription revenue up 16.1% YoY to $389M, and operating profit up 27.2% YoY to $117.9M

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

People Inc reports Q1 digital revenue up 8% YoY to $253M, driven by a 24% rise in non-website income; Google Search traffic is now only 25% of core sessions

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Recognition Music Group, which includes works of Justin Bieber and Neil Young, from Blackstone for between $3.5B and $4B

Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:

Barry Diller says he would buy CNN “tonight” if it were available, and a WBD-Paramount merger will prompt a “savage process” to find cost cuts worth billions

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:

Sources: Google has proposed changes to how it displays news results across Search in a bid to avoid adding to its €9.5B running total of EU competition fines

Kevin Dolak / The Hollywood Reporter:

Shane Smith relaunches Vice News as a social-first outlet for his podcast and news reports and a brand partnership vehicle, following its 2023 bankruptcy

MS NOW:

Sources: the FBI launched a criminal leak investigation into Atlantic journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick after her report on Director Kash Patel's alcohol consumption

Michael Savage / The Guardian:

WSJ EIC Emma Tucker says powerful figures are increasingly using the “PR strategy” of suing media outlets before they have even published a story

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:

Fubo reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $1.57B, net loss of $6.2M, down from $40.9M in Q2 2025, and 5.7M North American subscribers, down from 5.9M in Q2 2025

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add “a preview of perspectives” from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as “Expert Advice”

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