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Google, other major news apps feature content from liberal media outlets 70% of time: report
Yahoo News, the analysis found, favored left-leaning outlets the most, with nearly 87% of the articles is featured coming from those news sources.
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Warner Bros. moves closer toward acquisition of Paramount, as investors vote to approve deal
The vote was one of the last remaining hurdles to complete the $111 billion acquisition.
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Satire website 'The Onion' reaches new deal to lease Alex Jones' Infowars
The Onion CEO Ben Collins said a court still needs to approve the new deal, but if it goes through, the satire website would pay a monthly licensing fee to the court-appointed receiver overseeing InfoWars.
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Paramount head David Ellison vows merger with Warner Bros won't reduce film output
The two companies formally signed a merger agreement in February, which will see Paramount acquire Warner Bros at $31 per share of the company, along with solutions to WBD’s debt financing costs.
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Trump, Marco Rubio make TIME Magazine's top 100 Most Influential People list
The list includes influential people from around the globe who are dominating discussions and the news industry in several categories, including arts and entertainment, politics, religion and foreign affairs.
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Bill Ackman offers to purchase Universal Music Group for $64 billion
The billionaire proposed keeping Universal Music’s CEO Lucian Grainge in his current position while installing former Disney CEO Michael Ovitz as chairman of the board and adding two representatives from Pershing Square to the board.
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CBS announces Colbert replacement after show goes off air next month
CBS said the new program will debut on May 22, the day after Colbert's show is expected to release its final episode. The program will begin at 11:35 p.m. and feature two back-to-back, half-hour “Comics Unleashed” episodes on weekdays.
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Layoffs hit Associated Press as staff levels cut by dozens
The move comes in the wake of large-scale layoffs at the Washington Post, which began in February.
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NYT bungles NATO meaning as 'North American Treaty Organization' instead of 'North Atlantic'
The news outlet admitted that it was a mistake in a post on social media, stating it would run a print correction Saturday.
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Associated Press runs paid PR ads for Chinese telecom Huawei as CCP seeks to influence UN agency
The AP is taking cash from Huawei to run paid ads for the Chinese telecom which the U.S. has dubbed a national security threat.
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Savannah Guthrie to return to Today show April 6 as search for her missing mother continues
The NBC "Today" show star's 84-year-old mother went missing Feb.1.
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Lake on VOA dismantling being political: Hirers had 'sketchy backgrounds,' from hostile countries
The Trump White House argument to dismantle the Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded news outlets was that they were producing "radical propaganda" and had become wasteful and corrupt.
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Weiss announces end to CBS News Radio as part of plan to remake network's news division
The TV network made cuts late last year, as new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski sought to remake the broadcast news division, now owned by Paramount Skydance.