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October 10, 2026
Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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October 5, 2026
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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October 5, 2026
5 Challenges David Ellison Faces as He Snags His Hollywood Prize
The tech scion has given his combination of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount a new name: Skydance. Now he must make tough decisions about news, movies, streaming, sports and debt.
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October 5, 2026
5 Challenges David Ellison Faces as He Snags His Hollywood Prize
The tech scion has given his combination of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount a new name: Skydance. Now he must make tough decisions about news, movies, streaming, sports and debt.
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October 1, 2026
David Ellison’s Vision for CNN: Same C.E.O and No Bari Weiss, for Now.
David Ellison is negotiating to keep CNN’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, in place without oversight from Bari Weiss, the CBS editor in chief, when the networks’ parent companies merge.
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September 26, 2026
TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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September 26, 2026
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media
An abrupt decree, a network boycott, a legal intervention and an uneasy détente: This was no typical battle between a president and his press corps.
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September 25, 2026
CNN and CBS Will Resume White House Coverage After Standoff
Crews from CBS and CNN were planning to cover two events on Friday with President Trump and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.
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September 24, 2026
White House Restores Access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
A judge ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on three media outlets, but it took several hours for them to get back in. The White House TV pool remains suspended.
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September 24, 2026
White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Ruling
A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets around 1 a.m. Thursday, but none were granted entry later that morning.
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September 23, 2026
Fox News Finds Itself at Odds With Trump on Press Ban
The home of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham has joined rival networks in suspending its coverage of pooled presidential events.
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September 22, 2026
Trump Is Back on TV, Briefly, as Many Networks Carry His U.N. Speech Live
A suspension of pool coverage remains in effect. But the in-house United Nations broadcaster provided a feed of the president’s remarks.
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September 19, 2026
MS NOW Reporter Barred From White House After Trump Imposes Press Ban
The president said on Friday he would ban CNN, Politico and MS NOW. Any prohibition will probably face a legal challenge.
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September 18, 2026
Trump Has Tried to Ban Reporters From Government Spaces Before
There are several instances where the president made an effort to stifle the work of journalists.
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September 18, 2026
Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House
In an insult-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump said he was instituting the ban because of reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.”
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September 14, 2026
The Bari Weiss Era of ‘60 Minutes’ Begins
The long-running CBS News program returned for a high-pressure 59th season on Sunday. With new correspondents and a refreshed stopwatch, it was more tweak than overhaul.
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September 12, 2026
How The Times Covers ‘60 Minutes’ and Other Journalists
Journalists don’t want to become the story. But newsrooms — and the people who run them — are the story for Times media reporters.
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August 27, 2026
Roy Cohn, Robert Mapplethorpe and a Trump-Era Dilemma Over Free Speech
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.
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August 5, 2026
Bunny Dolls and Disturbing Allegations: Max Miller’s Strange CNN Interview
In a 23-minute appearance with the anchor Jake Tapper, the Ohio Republican made an unusual effort to rebut a multitude of allegations that have threatened his re-election bid.
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July 28, 2026
Ross Douthat Joins ‘60 Minutes’ as a Correspondent
Mr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists.
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July 23, 2026
U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists
A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
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July 20, 2026
Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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