Christian Siebeneck has been named  vice president,  technology & innovation by Public Media Management, TVNewsCheck reports. He will be tasked with supporting PMM’s cloud and master control services across the public television system. Siebeneck most recently was chief technology officer at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn.

The consolidation of news outlets into the hands of a few owners could impact the public’s right to know, CPJ (the Committee to Protect Journalists) states in an opinion. Instead of limiting media consolidation, the Federal Communications Commission has focused on broadcast licenses, and a concentrated number of companies now control what Americans watch, it adds.

The Nashville Predators and Scripps Sports have signed a deal to bring the team’s games to free, over-the-air television, TVNewsCheck reports. The arrangement starts with the 2026-27 season. Scripps will use WNPX, its local Middle Tennessee as the broadcast home of the Predators.   

Amagi has launched an Agentic AI platform called Newspulse that scans VOD libraries and watches live news broadcasts, curating, MediaPlayNews reports. It packages individual stories as social-ready clips, news bulletins and vertical bulletins, formats that apparently are popular with young adults (ages 18-29). “For traditional broadcasters, the math is simple: reach those audiences on digital platforms or lose them entirely,” Amagi states.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is playing to lay off a “few hundred” employees out of 12,000 that work at the company, Variety reports. This “restructuring” is a strategic choice for growth in franchise strategy and brand extension (including game shows),” sources said.  One senior-level departure is that of Colin Davis, executive vice president of comedy development.

Emma Tucker, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, has praised Fortune magazine for utilizing AI-written stories, Talking Biz News reports. “I love your totally clear-eyed, unsentimental approach to AI in newsrooms,” Tucker wrote in an email to Alyson Shontell, editor of Fortune, which was then passed along to Semafor. “It makes you pretty unique among our cohort. I just did an All Hands meeting with our APAC staff (I’m in Tokyo) and told them they all had to read it. Anyone who doesn’t get what you are doing at Fortune, or thinks it is ‘wrong’, should get out of journalism fast!”

Fred Drasner, former co-publisher of the New York Daily News and a powerful  figure in New York City’s media industry, has died age 83, amNewYork reports. He was co-owner, CEO and co-publisher of the Daily News from 1993 to 2004. In 1985, he acquired U.S. News & World Report and remained CEO and co-chairman until 2004. 

The American Prospect, which runs an online daily and a bimonthly print magazine, has removed all programmatic advertising from its site, it reports. “We think you and your personal data deserve more respect than we were providing,” the Prospect says in an article. It adds that the damage from programmatic advertising is real and visible. Ads slow the site down, cause security vulnerabilities for the publication's readers, and interrupt the process of reading.

President Trump has warned an unnamed news organization and reporters to reveal the name of a leaker who allegedly revealed details about a U.S. airman who went missing after his fighter jet was shot down., The Washington Post reports. “They didn’t know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information,” Trump said on Monday. “So whoever it was, we think we’ll be able to find it out because we’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, national security, give it up or go to jail.”

Due to its negotiating strength, the NFL is expected to achieve a 50%+ jump in annual rights revenue to $15 billion, MSN reports. Some estimates are as high as $16 billion. However, higher negotiated NFL rights fees will force networks and streamers to divert funds from scripted television and film projects.