Brad Pareso

Warner Bros. Discovery is parting ways with CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht, the company announced Wednesday during CNN’s daily editorial meeting. His tenure ends immediately. (TVNewser) “This job was never going to be ea ...

The Los Angeles Times newsroom is eliminating 74 positions—or roughly 13% of its newsroom—executive editor Kevin Merida announced in a memo to staff Wednesday. (Poynter) A spokeswoman for the news organization, Hillary Manning ...

Fox News Wednesday notified Tucker Carlson’s lawyers that the former prime-time anchor violated his contract with the network when he launched his own Twitter show Tuesday, according to a copy of a letter. (Axios) In a lette ...

Prince Harry ended more than seven hours of intense, sometimes confrontational, testimony in a London courtroom Wednesday, having put the ethics of Britain’s freewheeling tabloid press on trial even as he struggled to produce co ...

Amazon is planning to launch an advertising-supported tier of its Prime Video streaming service as it looks to further build its ad business and generate more revenue from entertainment, according to people familiar with the situa ...

SAG-AFTRA began negotiations with the major studios Wednesday, and the two sides have already agreed on one thing: They won’t be talking to the media about it. (Variety)

Brands and marketing agencies have, largely, made good on their 2020 commitments to devote more ad spend to Black media. But the increase in investment has gone primarily to a handful of scaled publishers, according to interviews ...

The studio let viewers rent or buy movies earlier for a higher price. This made more than $1 billion in less than three years, with nearly no decrease in box-office sales. (NYT)

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok aims to more than quadruple the size of its global ecommerce business to as much as $20 billion in merchandise sales this year, banking on rapid growth in Southeast Asia, according to people familiar with ...

Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms are using “bullying tactics” against a Canadian push aimed at ensuring financial support for news publishers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. (Reuters)