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Paramount’s $6 billion-plus synergy plan now has to work around protections for theatrical output, production spending, studio lots, and cable negotiations, putting more pressure on duplicated corporate and technology operations. With roughly $79 billion of net debt expected at closing,…

YouTube and AI are exposing the same economic fault line across media: technology gets embraced when it cuts costs and resisted when it threatens labor, IP, budgets, or pricing power. The real fight is over who captures the productivity dividend.

Disney is cutting about 1,000 jobs across marketing, studios, ESPN, and corporate functions as part of CEO Josh D’Amaro’s push to unify operations under a centralized model . The layoffs remove overlapping roles created by consolidating global marketing, aiming to…