Roger Cheng is Managing Editor for Pro and business coverage for The Wrap. In 2025, he made the switch to entertainment journalism after nearly a quarter century covering technology at CNET, where he served as the head of news of the world’s largest consumer tech site, and at The Wall Street Journal, where he chronicled the rise of the smartphone.
Experience:
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Breaking Down the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Settlement | Analysis
Everything you need to know about what 12 state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta got out of David Ellison
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How Ed Sheeran Turned a Firestorm Over Macklemore, Palestine and Free Expression Into a PR Debacle | Analysis
Crisis communications experts weighed in how the superstar musician should’ve handled the controversy
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Music
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Paramount’s Threat to Leave California Is a Page Out of Larry Ellison’s Playbook — and It Usually Works
Pressure mounts on California Attorney General Rob Bonta as Paramount indicates it’s ready to pack up
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Inside Anthropic and OpenAI’s Move to Slow AI: Is It Really a Turning Point? | Analysis
It’s a rare moment when competing AI labs agree on something so critical. But other forces are pushing for the acceleration of AI development
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Tech
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‘Will AI Kill Us All?’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask | Analysis
Rather than focus on the existential crisis, more energy needs to be devoted to overseeing these companies as they race toward an uncertain endgame
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Tech
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AI Studio Arcana Labs to Produce Family Animated Feature ‘The Furry Wild West’ | Exclusive
Unlike other AI productions where the technology has been used in the writing and storyboarding process, it will only be applied to the animation stage
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Who Has the Most Leverage, Paramount or Bonta? | Analysis
Breaking down what each side brings to the table as talks for a possible settlement loom
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Business
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How Bob Iger Snatched the Lakers in a Shocking $12.5 Billion Deal
One of the crown jewels of professional sports is tied to a tale that cuts between the worlds of politics, business, entertainment and sports
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Can a Copyright Risk Detector for AI-Created Media Protect Artists and Studios? | Exclusive
Startup CopySight is pushing a credit score-like system that it wants to make an industry standard
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Why Paramount Delayed Its Warner Bros. Takeover, What the Latest Legal Twist Means | Analysis
With a costly ticking fee looming, Paramount is banking on a speedy trial
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How ‘Star Trek’ Fell From Streaming Anchor to Stuck in Limbo
For the first time in nearly a decade, the future of “Star Trek” on television is unclear
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TV
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Paramount-Warner Bros. May Face Devastating Delay With State Antitrust Suit | Analysis
The state attorneys general’s effort lives and dies on whether it gets its request for a preliminary injunction to halt the merger granted
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Why Letterboxd Is a Hot Takeover Target | Analysis
The social network boasts a fiercely loyal and active community, but will a studio takeover upset that balance?
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Amazon MGM Dumps a Sam Altman Biopic as Big Tech Crosses a Line in Hollywood | Analysis
With a $50 billion OpenAI deal just closed, the exit from the movie represents the starkest example of Big Tech siding with business interests over creative freedom
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Business
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How the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Became Political Dynamite | Analysis
Between fear over the right’s consolidation of news to allegations of antisemitism, politics have taken center stage in this deal
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