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The CBS Broadcast Center entrance at West 57th Street at dusk, a security stanchion with temporary signage, a delivery crew moving packing crates near the loading dock.

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Three Media Consolidation Arcs Ran in Parallel Monday and the Map Looks Different in the Morning

Netflix's first post-Hastings quarter, Paramount Skydance's $31-a-share WBD bid, and Disney's thousand-person D'Amaro cut converged into one story about who owns American television.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles April 21 6 min read

Wide shot of the Saurimo esplanade at midday, tens of thousands of Angolans in white and gold vestments filling the foreground, a large outdoor altar in the middle distance.

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Leo Held the Substance at Saurimo Twenty Miles From Catoca and Flew Tuesday for Malabo

Leo's Saurimo homily held the post-walkback frame beside Angola's largest diamond mine before forty thousand Angolans, and Tuesday he flies to Equatorial Guinea.

By Anna Weber, Berlin April 21 6 min read

A USCCB podium bearing the Conference seal, empty at the moment, a folder of printed doctrinal statements on the lectern, stained-glass light falling across the far wall.

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USCCB Doctrine Rebuff Day Six, Vance No Reversal

Six days after Bishop Massa's just-war clarification rebuked Vance's Georgia remarks, no Catholic-aligned administration intermediary has surfaced a reversal.

By Anna Weber, Berlin April 21 3 min read

A dimmed CBS Radio newsroom after hours on a Tuesday, a single anchor desk lamp still on, a wall clock reading 6:55 p.m. above an unattended microphone, newsroom beyond the glass dark except for one cleaner's cart.

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CBS Radio Reaches Day Thirty-One With Paramount Awaiting Carr's FCC

Thirty-one days before Murrow's radio service signs off, the merger that would absorb CNN into Bari Weiss's newsroom sits on Brendan Carr's desk at the FCC.

By Maya Calloway, New York April 21 3 min read

Tverskoy District Court exterior in central Moscow at dawn, a lone court clerk with a briefcase approaching the entrance under grey April sky, a wet sidewalk reflecting the court's colonnade.

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Roldugin Enters Day Twelve in Moscow Detention With May Ten Twenty Days Out

Twelve days inside Petrovka 38 with the formal charge now eight days old, and CPJ's April 9 release call has not moved a single Western broadsheet.

By Katya Volkov, Moscow April 21 3 min read