Disney promotes Thomas Mazloum to chairman of its parks, cruises, and consumer products division, succeeding Josh D'Amaro, who is set to become CEO on March 18 (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
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Streaming pay-TV provider Philo adds a cheaper subscription tier, Essential plan, for $25 per month, $8 less than Bundle+; Philo has 1M+ subscribers (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
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The Spectator has invested £1M in its subscription platform CoEditor, helping it reach an all-time high subscriber total and saving a projected ~£500K a year (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
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MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release (Free Press Action Fund Feed)
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Xicoia Studios releases a single and music video made by "real humans" starring AI "actor" Tilly Norwood ahead of Norwood's official AI acting debut this year (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
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After an online backlash, Superhuman says experts can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address, but fails to apologize (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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Yamaha launches Creator Pass, which bundles services and apps focused on music and podcast production, including Landr and Output, starting at $14.99/month (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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A US judge orders states to negotiate a potential resolution with Live Nation and declines to rule on the request for a mistrial after the DOJ settled (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
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Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
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An audit says USAGM failed to provide information for a required annual review of its 2025 finances, and auditors declined to express an opinion on its numbers (Minho Kim/New York Times)
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USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
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Meta emails advertisers about "location fees" in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
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An interview with Lucia Osborne-Crowley about enduring threats and sexual harassment to report on Ghislaine Maxwell, her book about the Maxwell trial, and more (Melissa Denes/The Guardian)
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An interview with Conan O'Brien about hosting the Oscars for the second time, late night TV's steady decline, his podcast and HBO Max travelogue, and more (Mikey O'Connell/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Paramount President Jeff Shell faces a $150M lawsuit over an alleged PR contract from an ex-advisor who also claims Shell disclosed Paramount's plans to him (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
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The Knight First Amendment Institute and Protect Democracy sue the Trump admin for its policy targeting noncitizens whose work the government deems "censorship" (Shannon Bond/NPR)
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A look at Tennis Channel, which had a revenue of $265M in 2025, as its CEO Jeff Blackburn leads a major overhaul to capitalize on the sport's surging popularity (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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Netflix divests from Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand As Ever, 11 months after it launched, as Markle's Netflix series With Love seemingly ramps down (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
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Megyn Kelly says 60 Minutes made "deceptive edits" to a Pete Hegseth interview to "rehabilitate" Israel's role in Iran war because of Weiss' "pro-Israel" stance (Sean James/Mediaite)
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Wasserman rebrands as The Team as Casey Wasserman's talent and management agency intensifies its efforts to find a buyer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Once averse to politics, Meta is now paying political creators thousands per month to post on Facebook; one liberal creator says Meta paid him $268K in January (Kyle Tharp/Chaotic Era)
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Bill O'Reilly launches a new weekly interview podcast called We'll Do It Live, debuting in the same week as Sean Hannity's similar show Hang Out (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
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Peacock acquires US streaming rights to SNL UK, set to premiere on March 21, with episodes streaming the day after they air in the UK (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
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The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
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ESPN hires six sports journalists, including enterprise reporter Kent Babb, who were laid off from WaPo when the newspaper eliminated 300+ jobs in February (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
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CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane says he is leaving the network, and looking "forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share" his work (Scott MacFarlane/Scott MacFarlane on LinkedIn)
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