Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Versant invests in microdrama streaming app GammaTime's Series A to take a minority stake; GammaTime raised a $14M seed in October 2025 (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Source: CBS News fired Scott Pelley hours after he met Tuesday with Bari Weiss, Nick Bilton, Tom Cibrowski, and CBS HR over his criticism of new leadership (Brian Stelter/CNN) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

CBS News terminates Scott Pelley's contract; Nick Bilton says Pelley's "antipathy to the future" of 60 Minutes "has come through loud and clear" (Dylan Byers/@dylanbyers) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A US federal judge orders NOTUS to temporarily suspend its planned rebrand as The Star, after The Washington Star's owner sued NOTUS for trademark infringement (Katie Robertson/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A Q&A with Semafor's Ben Smith on the limits of "going direct", technology's impact on media, the shift to bundling, the appeal of in-person events, and more (Pirate Wires) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

AI image startup Black Forest Labs says Martin Scorsese became a partner and adviser last year and used its tech to storyboard during preproduction for a film (Brooks Barnes/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Nine media advocacy groups claim the Paramount-WBD merger is an "existential threat to the free press", suggesting CNN would face firings like 60 Minutes has (Josh Dickey/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A Q&A with Paramount's CLO Makan Delrahim, an ex-DOJ antitrust regulator, who says concerns about the WBD deal are "fear-mongering" and "antisemitic" (Meg James/Los Angeles Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The White House Correspondents' Association reschedules its annual dinner to July 24 with "significantly enhanced safety measures"; the event's venue is TBD (Ted Johnson/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

SiriusXM partners with Tubi on a non-exclusive distribution and advertising deal for a selection of its podcasts, including Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Q&A with Palestinian journalist Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh, who runs @Muslim with 14M+ social media followers, on appealing to younger readers, Meta, Trump, and more (Carla Sertin/Wired) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Condé Nast shifts Glamour's business model to prioritize affiliate-link commerce over journalism, a stark example of how women's magazines have declined (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A profile of Barry Diller, now 84, a studio executive-turned-digital-brand- builder-turned-publishing-magnate, who has made a career of unexpected wagers (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

How journalists in Sudan are turning to encrypted networks, satellite imagery, and citizen reporting to document the war, as militias restrict media operations (Adam Makary/Wired Middle East) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An interview with The Salt Lake Tribune CEO Lauren Gustus about dropping the paywall and moving to a membership model, inspiration from the Guardian, and more (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Letter: Congress summons NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify June 10 about the league's broadcast deals and whether it should retain antitrust exemptions (Dan Murphy/ESPN) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Leaked recording: in a meeting, Scott Pelley told Nick Bilton he had "slender" qualifications for his new job; Bilton said Pelley would not "intimidate" him (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Dozens of CBS News veterans, including Lowell Bergman and Dan Rather, sign a letter to David Ellison urging him to "uphold editorial independence" at 60 Minutes (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The DOD designates its press office a classified space and bans journalists from accessing it, saying speechwriters in the facility handle classified material (Scott Nover/Washington Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Audiochuck, the company behind the popular Crime Junkie podcast, names SoulCycle CEO Evelyn Webster as its new CEO, replacing ex-Conde Nast exec Matt Starker (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Jimmy Kimmel says he finds it hard to believe reports that Stephen Colbert's show suddenly started losing $40M a year, calling them "made-up numbers" (Ellise Shafer/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: veteran correspondent Scott Pelley criticized Bari Weiss in a heated meeting saying "she was brought in to kill" 60 Minutes "and is doing exactly that" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sulzberger says NYT has spent over $20M on legal fees over the past two and a half years on its AI lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity (The New York Times Company) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says AI companies are making choices that "violate settled law" and could lead to "a great deal of unnecessary harm" to the news business (Corbin Bolies/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

DirecTV removes 50+ Scripps local channels from its satellite and online platforms, after a distribution agreement lapsed on Sunday without a new one in place (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An interview with Jimmy Kimmel, who says late night TV is "not just dying of natural causes" but being "poisoned", ABC told him his show is profitable, and more (Kathryn VanArendonk/Vulture) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Source: Barry Diller's People Inc. prepares an offer for MGM Resorts that values the casino giant at $18B+, seeking the 73.9% stake it does not already own (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Zee Entertainment secures Indian broadcast and streaming rights to 39 FIFA soccer events spanning 2026 to 2034, including the FIFA World Cups in 2026 and 2030 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

RTL closes its acquisition of Sky Deutschland from Comcast for an upfront purchase price of €68M, down from the €150M announced in 2025 (Jesse Whittock/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The UK blocks YouTube political commentator Cenk Uygur and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker from entering the UK, meaning both will miss SXSW London talks this week (Jesse Whittock/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

UK TV personality KSI, who has 18.4M YouTube subscribers, says he is exiting his collective The Sidemen, which has 140M+ YouTube subscribers collectively (Max Goldbart/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Inside JioStar's Mumbai-based production facility, the nerve center for IPL cricket streams that have attracted 1.1B+ viewers across TV and streaming in 2026 (Sukhman Singh/The Athletic) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NYPR's new CEO Christy Tanner, a CBS News veteran, has eliminated many senior figures, surprising staff and unsettling some of its remaining leaders (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NBC News launches Meet the Moment Live, a new live-event franchise for Meet the Press, its latest show to try to develop new revenue through live events (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sky ends its UAE joint venture with IMI amid criticism of Sky News Arabia's Sudan war coverage; IMI will take full ownership, and Sky will license the brand (Sherry Su/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Kane Parsons' Backrooms joins a wave of breakout films from young directors who got their start on YouTube; the film is on track for a $60M weekend box office (Brooks Barnes/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Analysis: the top 18 Hollywood executives received $746M in combined compensation in 2025, a 51% YoY increase, as their pay gap with employees remains massive (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 (John Koblin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

2026 News & Documentary Emmys: HBO/CNN's Prime Minister won best documentary; ABC won the most news awards at eight, followed by Nat Geo's seven and CNN's four (McKinley Franklin/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Just the News founder John Solomon says he is being vetted for a short-term White House role; source: he would lead a task force to declassify documents (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

China ordered the expulsion of NYT reporter Vivian Wang in February; a source says the US revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for Xinhua in response (Michael Crowley/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

UMG rejects the $64B acquisition offer from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, saying the deal is not in the best interests of UMG, shareholders, and stakeholders (Jem Aswad/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

After backlash, animator Jorge R. Gutierrez drops plans to make an AI-generated animated series called Punky Duck for Amazon MGM Studios' GenAI Creators' Fund (Brian Welk/IndieWire) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Q&A with Brendan Carr, who discusses Disney's claim that the FCC's early TV license renewal orders chill free speech and says the orders are about DEI (CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink