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☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to President Donald Trump in order to settle his lawsuit against CBS News, which arose over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story After Warner Bros. Discovery struck a deal last week to sell its studio and streaming services to Netflix, Paramount Skydance responded by launching a hostile takeover bid. But there is a key difference between the two potential transactions: While […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! The Briefing will be on hiatus until Thursday, Dec. 4. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🌽 In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story President Donald Trump’s interactions with the news media have made headlines in a few different ways this week. He insulted a Bloomberg News reporter […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Swedish journalist Joakim Medin received an 11-month suspended sentence in Turkey for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Medin, affiliated with the Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC, was arrested at Istanbul airport on March 27 […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, there were multiple news stories surrounding the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), a site where 12% of Americans say they regularly get news. On Wednesday, CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that […]
This newsletter was delayed due to a Microsoft service outage – thanks for your patience. ☀️ Happy Friday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The BBC announced a deal with YouTube this week to make original content for the video-based platform, including […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, announced this week that he would step down from the CBS news program, citing a loss of journalistic independence and telling staff that he is […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story TikTok announced this week that it will begin rolling out Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to Community Notes on X and Meta. The system will allow users to contribute additional context to […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore The Associated Press’ access as the media outlet’s lawsuit against the White House proceeds. The administration had barred the news agency from some spaces […]