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CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), a media conglomerate created by the 2022 merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc. . In 2025 WBD announced plans to split its streaming/studios business fr...
Tony Dokoupil was not fired from CBS in the reporting reviewed; he was elevated from CBS Mornings to anchor the CBS Evening News with his debut on Jan. 5, 2026 , and coverage instead documents a rocky...
Paramount Global agreed to a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump to resolve a lawsuit alleging that CBS’s 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris; t...
Available sources identify Comcast (NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount Skydance among the largest U.S. media conglomerates in 2025; reporting and reference p...
CNN’s corporate context has shifted sharply in late 2025: Warner Bros. Discovery plans to spin off CNN and other linear channels into a new publicly traded company called Discovery Global, and major b...
political entanglements are a growing, but not exclusive, factor shaping studio acquisition choices for nonfiction projects: owners’ partisan ties and regulatory exposure can make buyers wary of contr...
Since the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger, internal reporting portrays CNN as operating in prolonged managerial and strategic limbo with measurable shifts toward digital products and cost-consciousness r...
CBS and parent Paramount carried out rounds of layoffs in late October 2025 that affected roughly 100 CBS News staffers as part of a broader corporate reduction of about 1,000 employees in the first w...
In 2025–2025 reporting, CNN and its parent Warner Bros. Discovery have been enmeshed in multiple legal fights and a corporate sale process: a high‑profile defamation settlement and judgment against CN...
Multiple news outlets reported that John Lasseter took a six‑month sabbatical in November 2017 after employees described “unwanted hugs” and other uncomfortable interactions; Disney later announced he...
John Lasseter’s management at Skydance mixed the same creative playbook he used at Pixar — hands-on story development, research trips and direct oversight of projects — with a defensive, optics-consci...
Recent mergers and acquisitions through 2024–2025 have heightened the structural conditions that make U.S. media companies more politically vulnerable and more politically active, but the evidence tha...
Erika Kirk is the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and, since his death in September 2025, has become the chief executive and chair of Turning Point USA, the organization he founded . She h...
President Trump’s most consequential settlement payouts this year have largely come from universities resolving federal probes: Columbia’s deal is reported as “more than $200 million,” Cornell agreed ...
John Lasseter was hired by Skydance Media on January 9, 2019, to lead its animation division — various outlets describe his title as Head of Skydance Animation or Head of Animation, with responsibilit...
The available reporting from September–December 2025 shows that CBS announced and network and corporate figures have described the decision as a business or financial one rather than a voluntary depar...