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CBS News Guts Its Newsroom: Inside the Post-Merger Purge That’s Reshaping a Legacy Network
The memo landed on a Wednesday morning, clinical in tone and devastating in scope. CBS News, one of the last standing pillars of American broadcast journalism, told its emplo...
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A Debut Novel Vanishes From Shelves After AI Accusations Engulf Its Author — And Publishing’s Uneasy Reckoning With Machine-Written Fiction
Jillian Pena had what most aspiring writers dream about. A debut novel. A major publisher. A release date. Then the internet turned on her, and it all disappeared in a matter...
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YouTube’s Quiet Bet on Video Previews Could Reshape How a Billion Users Find What to Watch
YouTube is testing a new way to help users discover content — and it looks a lot like the short-form video feeds that have come to dominate social media. The feature, called...
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The Gutting of CBS News: How Bari Weiss, Skydance, and a Culture War Are Reshaping a Legacy Newsroom
CBS News is bleeding. Dozens of journalists — some of whom have spent decades building the network's reputation — are being shown the door in a restructuring that has less to...
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The Rapper, the Raid, and the Lemon Cake: How Afroman Turned a Police Search Into a Legal and Cultural Showdown
On a quiet street in Adams County, Ohio, a squad of law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on a home belonging to Joseph Foreman — better known as Afroman, the ra...
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TikTok’s Biggest Bet Yet: Taking Phone-Screen Stars and Putting Them on Your Living Room TV
TikTok wants to be on your television. Not as a streaming app you scroll through on a smart TV, but as a content pipeline feeding full-length programming to one of the larges...
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The Great Streaming Shakeout: Why Your Next TV Might Come With Ads You Can’t Escape
There's a television sitting in a warehouse somewhere — maybe millions of them — that costs less than a decent pair of running shoes. It will stream Netflix, play YouTube, an...
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YouTube’s Unskippable Ad Barrage Is Pushing Viewers to a Breaking Point — and Google Knows It
People hate unskippable ads. This isn't a revelation. But a recent large-scale poll has quantified just how intensely YouTube's advertising strategy is alienating its most lo...
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The Quiet Extinction: How Google’s Algorithm Updates Are Crushing Small Publishers and Reshaping the Open Web
For years, the implicit bargain of the internet was straightforward: create something useful, optimize it reasonably well, and Google would send you traffic. That bargain is...
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YouTube Just Landed the Biggest Sports Streaming Deal in History — And It Could Reshape How Billions Watch the World Cup
YouTube will be the exclusive English-language home of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Free. All 104 matches. No paywall, no cable subscript...
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NordVPN Partners With Internews to Shield Journalists and Activists From Surveillance
NordVPN just made its most politically charged move yet. The consumer VPN giant has partnered with Internews, a nonprofit that supports independent media in some of the world...
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The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. Here’s What That Means.
The Washington Post is experimenting with dynamic pricing for its digital subscriptions — adjusting what readers pay based on behavioral data the paper collects about them. I...
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s License Threats Over Iran Coverage Signal a New Era of Government Pressure on Broadcast Media
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has escalated his campaign against broadcast networks, this time threatening the licenses of stations that aired cover...
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Disney+ Quietly Killed Dolby Vision, Then Brought It Back — And the Reason Why Should Worry Every Streamer
For a few disorienting weeks, millions of Disney+ subscribers lost access to one of the most premium features they were paying for — and most didn't even know it. Dolby Visio...
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Peacock’s Bet on AI-Generated Hosts Signals a New and Unsettling Era for Television
NBCUniversal is about to let artificial intelligence loose on Bravo's most beloved franchise — and the implications extend far beyond reality television.Peacock, the s...
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