El big bang de una nueva era en el entretenimiento y la información en Estados Unidos se acerca. El Departamento de Justicia ha dado este viernes el visto bueno a que Paramount se coma a Warner por 111.000 millones de dólares (unos 95.000 millones de euros). La megaoperación tendrá efectos en todos los campos: desde las salas de cine a las noticias que los ciudadanos ven en sus televisores. Si la operación no encuentra a partir de ahora ningún obstáculo legal, no solo se unirán dos de las más grandes -y antiguas rivales- productoras de Hollywood. Bajo el mismo paraguas estarán canales como CNN y CBS, además de plataformas de streaming como HBO Max y Paramount+, que en total suman unos 200 millones de suscriptores.

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British journalist becomes one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss

CBS News has hired the prominent British broadcaster Trevor Phillips, as its senior global affairs correspondent, in a significant hire for embattled top editor Bari Weiss.

The network said that reporting by Phillips, who currently presents the flagship Sunday political show on the UK’s Sky News channel, would appear “on all CBS News programs and platforms”.

Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it did not echo Trump’s view of the shooting

The fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at CBS of interfering with a broadcast segment on the killing of the Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration officer in January.

The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, had sent an email to his supervisor requesting changes shortly before the airing of the segment in question.