Scooplet: Dan Primack, Axios’ business editor, just interviewed Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara for The Axios Show. First clip drops tomorrow morning, with the full episode out on Thursday.

New this morning: "Axel Springer, a transatlantic family-owned media company, has reached an agreement with RedBird IMI to acquire the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) for £575 million in cash."

‘He’s Not MAGA!’ Trump Officially Cuts Tucker Carlson Loose from His Political Movement in Stunning Comments

David Ellison will "throw the First Amendment, CNN’s reporters and HBO’s filmmakers under the bus if they stand in the way of expanding his corporate empire and fattening his pockets," @freedom.press's Seth Stern said. Read more from @brianstelter.bsky.social:

CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

"Mario Guevara, the Salvadoran journalist who gained popularity by documenting immigration raids, has been deported after spending months in federal custody.

“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “Make no mistake, this is not a simple immigration case." cpj.org/2025/10/jour...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power. We should all be outraged. freedom.press/issues/mario...

Gomez: “We have seen that this administration uses the fact that it has to approve mergers and acquisitions in order to impose ideological requirements on the companies or censor these companies.

Anna Gomez speaking at the University of Mississippi as part of her First Amendment Tour: “With a vote just this week during our monthly meeting, the FCC is gearing up to make major changes that will drastically alter the national media landscape, and the number of voices that are a part of it.

"A comedy festival in Saudi Arabia featuring high-profile American performers is drawing intense criticism from human rights advocates who say the star-studded event helps gloss over the kingdom’s ongoing human rights abuses." Read my full story for CNN here: www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...

Christopher Ruddy’s pro-Trump channel Newsmax on Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster of illegally blocking competition in the right-wing pay-TV market.

Wednesday evening on the MAGA cable channel OAN, as DoD spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson gushed to host Matt Gaetz about an alleged year-over-year increase in female military recruits, four images of women soldiers in combat fatigues were displayed on-screen. All four images were AI fakes.

The New York Post is heading west. The tabloid’s ownership announced that it will launch a sister publication, The California Post, in early 2026.

Now-former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran sat down for a pair of interviews on Monday, speaking out for the first time about losing his job at the network after he posted a social media missive last week against President Donald Trump and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

The Washington Post on Wednesday announced it has a new Opinion editor. The move comes four months after it announced a “significant shift” to the Opinion page and the departure of its embattled section chief.

I spoke with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez about her First Amendment Tour and the agency's "sham investigations" into news outlets.

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sent Media Matters for America a letter demanding communications between the progressive media watchdog and advertising entities as the commission probes whether the watchdog colluded with advertisers to pull funding from Elon Musk’s X.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company on Friday said a “rogue employee” was behind its chatbot’s unsolicited rants about “white genocide” in South Africa earlier this week.

A Democratic commissioner on the FCC tore into the panel’s recent actions under its new chairman, without naming him, saying the agency has been "weaponized to chill speech and to punish the press."

“After much teasing and speculation, ESPN has finally unveiled the details of its new flagship streaming service.”

"Netflix is getting its first facelift in 12 years. The streaming giant on Wednesday announced a major overhaul of its home page, the first redesign since it unveiled its current home page in November 2013."

"President Donald Trump is belatedly raging against CBS News’ latest Emmy nomination."

"President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will meet with Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor-in-chief who, in late March, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat that involved classified information and several top Trump officials." Check out my full story with Kit Maher here:

Andrew Kirell and I wrote about Trump's Thursday morning Truth Social post that took aim at a recent Fox News poll. As we put it: "It’s perhaps a bad day for President Donald Trump when even Fox News is suggesting things may not be going so well." Check out our full story for CNN here:

I chatted with Time's longtime creative director, D.W. Pine, about the role the magazine's covers play in today's media ecosystem and about some of the more divisive covers he's put out during his 26-plus years working with the red frame. You can read my full story for CNN here:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the company that provides NPR and PBS with federal funds.

A budding media start-up producing a culinary docuseries has been stuck in limbo for months. After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID.

President Donald Trump launched some of his harshest attacks yet on the media on Friday, using a speech at the Department of Justice to baselessly accuse outlets, including CNN, of illegal and corrupt behavior.

"A Florida circuit judge on Monday denied the Pulitzer Board’s request to pause a defamation lawsuit from Donald Trump until the president is out of office.

The Washington Post announced a major "reinvention" of its newsroom on Monday as the ailing Jeff Bezos-owned publication looks to grow its dwindling subscription numbers.

"'The Apprentice,' the NBC reality show that propelled Donald Trump from real estate mogul to TV personality, is getting the streaming treatment at Amazon’s Prime Video.

I sat down with Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong for a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday that touched on the outlet's recent Opinion changes, its AI tool's immediate errors, and Soon-Shiong's plans for the paper's editorial board and LAT Next. You can read all about it here:

New from me: "The [LAT] faced cringeworthy headlines like this one yesterday: 'It only took a day for LA Times' new AI tool to sympathize with the KKK.' Several hours after the reports began to surface, owner Patrick Soon-Shiong told me in a phone interview that he hadn't heard about the issue."

"A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office on Friday to cover President Trump’s sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting."

"Current and former Washington Post staffers are rebelling against Jeff Bezos after he announced a 'significant' editorial shift that will see the paper’s Opinion section focus almost exclusively on personal liberties and free markets." Read my full story for CNN here www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/m...

"Rumors that Lucasfilm’s longtime president may be leaving Disney have swirled for quite some time. But reports that Kathleen Kennedy will retire at the end of her contract may be jumping the gun." Read my full story for CNN here: www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/m...

"MSNBC on Monday announced a major overhaul to its primetime lineup that will go into effect in April even as it shared that Joy Reid will part ways with the network."

"Amazon MGM Studios is taking creative control of the James Bond franchise, in a new deal announced Thursday. Under the deal, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli — the duo who brought the 007 films to theaters for more than 60 years — will remain co-owners of the franchise."

"The Washington Post scrapped an upcoming print ad from a pair of advocacy groups calling for the firing of Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government and Efficiency."

"In a provocative move that could be aimed at stoking President Donald Trump’s ire, Time magazine’s latest print cover features Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office."

"The chief executive of POLITICO’s parent company pushed back hard against a debunked right-wing conspiracy theory that has been buoyed by the Trump administration concerning the publication, telling CNN that Politico has never accepted any form of federal funding."

"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, responding Wednesday to a question about a right-wing conspiracy theory, announced that the federal government would cancel $8 million worth of Politico subscriptions."

"As President Trump and Elon Musk remake the federal government through firings, orders and brute force, small news publishers that specialize in the federal workforce are landing big scoops and seeing equally big traffic gains." Read my full story for CNN here:

"A trans member of the National Guard is speaking out after a wave of claims on social media falsely pointed to her as the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in Washington, Wednesday, killing 67 people." Read my full story for CNN here: www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/m...

"Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission’s new chairman, on Wednesday ordered an investigation into the sponsorship practices of NPR and PBS member stations." Read my full story for CNN here: www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/m...

On Trump's first day in office, he signed an executive order “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship." But disinformation experts say its a "direct assault on reality," via @hadasgold.bsky.social @unbonfromage.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/m...

“Netflix announced Tuesday it will raise prices on most of its subscription tiers in the US and Canada after the streaming giant reported 19 million new subscribers in the last quarter of 2024.” Read my full story for CNN here: www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/m...

Local TV meteorologists at Allen Media Group-owned stations have begun to bid farewell to their longtime audiences as AMG begins replacing staff with a new national hub that will be spearheaded by The Weather Channel in Atlanta.