Sean is a business reporter who covers tech and media for TheWrap based in New York City. His beat includes companies like Meta and TikTok, as well as notable industry figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Sean covers the news landscape and closely watches digital media.
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Trump Calls on Congress to Erase $1.1 Billion in Public Broadcast Funds
The president’s rescission request comes after he signed an executive order to defund PBS and NPR last month
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CNN, Jake Tapper Ratings Drop as Biden Book Faces Blowback
Coincidence or cause? Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Kaitlan Collins all saw their viewership drop 18% at the same time Tapper’s ratings fell while promoting “Original Sin”
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Vox Media Union Pledges to Strike Without New Deal Addressing AI, Rising Costs
The strike threat, made by WGA East, says it wants a joint contract that includes The Dodo Union colleagues
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White House Says Elon Musk Ripping Trump-Backed Bill as ‘Disgusting Abomination’ Doesn’t Change a Thing
The Tesla boss continues to voice his displeasure with the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which he calls “outrageous” and “pork-filled”
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David Mamet Compares Democratic Party to Families Who Deny They Have Pedophile Fathers | Video
The “Glengarry Glen Ross” playwright tells Fox News that “everything in the Democrats’ playbook” is geared towards denying reality
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Google Will Spend $500 Million to Overhaul Compliance Program, Settle Lawsuit
The settlement comes as the tech giant faces growing regulatory pressure to break up its online ad empire
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CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Alex Marquardt Exits Months After Defamation Lawsuit
The veteran correspondent was at the center of a defamation lawsuit after he reported a U.S. Navy veteran “exploited” fleeing Afghans
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Bill Simmons Thinks ESPN Will ‘F—k’ Up ‘Inside the NBA’
The Sports Guy says his former network will have to change how it does commercials in order to give Barkley & Co. the room they need to operate
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‘Morning Joe’: ‘Sickening’ Boulder Attack Was Clearly Terrorism | Video
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says “if this isn’t an act of terrorism, I don’t know what is” after eight people were burned in Colorado while rallying for Israeli hostages
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PBS Sues Trump Administration Over Push to Defund Public Broadcasters
The president does not have the authority to slash public broadcasting funds and has violated PBS’s First Amendment rights with his recent executive order, the lawsuit claims
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President Trump Bids Elon Musk Farewell From Oval Office: ‘We’ll Remember You’
Musk says DOGE is “a way of life” that will continue following his exit from the Trump Administration
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NBC Deletes Viral Chinese Paraglider Video That Appears to Be ‘AI-Generated’; CNN, NYT Stories Remain Live
A video showing a frost-covered paraglider surviving an unexpected move to 28,000 feet is likely bogus, NBC News finds
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Joy Reid to Launch YouTube Podcast as First Move Post-MSNBC
The ex-cable news host will start her new YouTube show in June
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Axios CEO Warns AI Will ‘Reorder Society’
Jim VandeHei says he is concerned lawmakers are paying “very little attention” to the rise of artificial intelligence
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Humans Have 4 Years Before AI Can Do Everything They Can Do, OpenAI COO Says
Brad Lightcap says artificial general intelligence is coming sooner than later