January wasn't bad for hiring. Paramount Skydance tries to prove how much it wants Warner Bros. And layoffs loom at EW Scripps.

• The February 2026 jobs report is better than expected
• Warner Bros. is restarting talks with Paramount after a new offer
• Scripps layoffs, turns to AI tools

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CBS News 24/7's union and SAG-AFTRA's union head to their respective negotiation tables. Paramount Skydance just can't let Warner Bros. go.

• Target invests in its staff, itself and cuts jobs
• CBS News 24/7 staff enters 3rd union contract negotiations
• Legislators want Netflix to promise not to fire Warner Bros. workers
• Paramount Skydance says it will take care of all the fees WBD owes if it cancels Netflix deal
• Sean Astin talks SAG-AFTRA negotiations

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Where has all the production gone?

• Paramount would fire so many people from Warner Bros. if it could
• WaPo to be hit with layoffs
• Disney names new leadership, creatives
• Christopher Nolan talks leading the Director’s Guild, lack of jobs
• Nolan on DGA bargaining with the AMPTP

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Bari Weiss lays out her vision of a 21st Century CBS News.

• Glassdoor’s best places to work in 2026

• Bari Weiss’s CBS News will deal with cuts

• Weiss’s all new, all different CBS turn around

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All work and no play makes Homer something something.

• What’s your work play style?

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Minimum wages increased to $15 in parts of the country. Is that enough? And teens can't get jobs thanks to artificial intelligence tools taking them.

• The first jobs report of 2026

• Minimum wage increases for 2026

• AI is taking teen jobs

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Chad talks about what he wants to accomplish in 2026.

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Disney teams up with OpenAI for copyrighted character usage much to the dismay of the Writer's Guild of America and Screen Actor's Guild.

• The delayed November jobs report has mixed data

• SAG-AFTRA and WGA will closely view the Disney/OpenAI deal

• WGA is very mad about Disney's billion dollar OpenAI deal

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