Alan Gould has joined Gray Media, Inc. as vice president, investor relations. He will lead the company’s efforts to strengthen its relationships with the investment community through the quarterly earnings process and expanded ongoing engagement with current and prospective investors. more

Warner Bros. Discovery  sent a message to Larry Ellison: If you want to buy our company, sign on the dotted line yourself. more

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Wednesday that the regulatory review of Warner’s deal with Netflix has begun, even as Paramount mounts a hostile takeover bid. more

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in his Wednesday Senate testimony that the agency he governs "is not an independent agency, formally speaking." During his testimony, the word "independent" was removed from the FCC's mission statement on its website. more

CBS will keep making room for a series of new town hall programs, even if the first entry in the format wasn’t the network’s biggest moment. more

The National Headliner Awards — one of the nation’s oldest and most prominent juried competitions for a broad range of journalism — announces two new judging categories in its call for entries for the 2026 contest. more

A new 2025 report from Magid Research shows that C-SPAN continues to draw a politically balanced audience, with nearly equal representation among conservatives, liberals and moderates. more

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and YouTube signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars®, beginning in 2029 with the 101st Oscars ceremony and running through 2033.  more

A bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives — 219 members — have signed on to the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA), a resolution opposing any new performance fee, tax, royalty or other charge on local broadcast radio stations. The measure also has 26 cosponsors in the U.S. Senate. more

The partnership will provide LMC’s 5,000 local news members, such as Townsquare Media, Las Vegas Review Journal and Circle City Broadcasting — to name a few, with technology to monitor, control and monetize the growing volume of AI bots and agents accessing their content.  more

As public media confronts unprecedented financial strain and shifting audience habits, Tom Davidson asks a question many in the system have quietly feared: What happens if PBS can no longer sustain itself? In this analysis, he traces the mounting pressures — from collapsing linear viewership to station defections and escalating dues — that threaten the network’s very structure. Davidson argues that without swift, coordinated action, a once-unthinkable scenario could rapidly become reality. more

Warner Bros. Discovery is officially rejecting Paramount’s buyout offer, calling it “illusory” and arguing that the existing plan to sell most of the media company to Netflix is a better deal for shareholders. more

The E.W. Scripps Company board of directors has unanimously decided to reject the unsolicited acquisition proposal submitted by Sinclair, Inc. on Nov. 24, 2025, to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Scripps that it does not already own for $7 per share in a mix of cash and stock. more

Responding to President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against them, the Pulitzer Prize Board has asked a Florida court to compel Trump to hand over his tax returns, financial records, and full medical and psychological files in a sweeping discovery request aimed at testing his claims of reputational and emotional harm. more

As the media industry grapples with news deserts, shrinking trust, and information overload, one company is quietly rewriting the rules of access and transparency. In its 30th year, Newsmatics is doing more than celebrating a milestone — it’s reshaping how the world discovers and distributes news. At the center of that transformation is Affinity Group Publishing, a Newsmatics service that delivers bias-labeled, hyper-targeted journalism from more than 3,900 moderated sources. With powerful tools like Perspectify® and a global network of niche publications, AGP is helping publishers, brands, and readers take back control of the news more

Matt Zdun has joined The New York Times to help cover the federal government and political campaigns. more

Affinity Partners, the fund tied to President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, has backed out of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Axios has confirmed. more

Bahakel Communications, Limited has reached an agreement to sell its Jackson, Tennessee, ABC affiliate WBBJ-TV, known locally as WBBJ 7, to Gray Media, Inc. more

The desk introduces the next phase in its evolution, with Stephen Merelman joining, and updates on several roles. more