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HBO is pulling the plug on “Vice News Tonight,” the nightly news show from Vice Media that has run on the cable network for the past seven years. Vice chief executive Nancy Dubuc made the announcement in a Monday email to staffers. News chief Josh Tyrangiel, who came to Vice from Bloomberg in 2015, will step down at the end of June, staying on as a consultant until the show ceases production in September. New York Post publisher Jesse Angelo is coming aboard to oversee Vice’s news, digital and television divisions. “Jesse is joining us to create expanded platform opportunities and franchises,” Dubuc said in the email, which a Vice spokeswoman showed to the Hollywood Reporter. Vice is also planning to stay in the daily news game. “A daily VICE news show will continue,” Dubuc said in the email, “and I’ll be able to share with you all the details in the coming weeks.” The company is currently developing a “news-centric” show for streaming channel Hulu.
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Subscribers to The Forward, which ended its print run with the April/May 2019 issue, will now be receiving print issues of Moment in its place. The addition of The Forward’s 16,000 subscribers will bring Moment’s total readership to 75,000. Founded in 1975 by Elie Wiesel and Leonard Fein, Moment has an extensive digital presence. The acquisition of The Forward’s subscribers is part of an overall expansion of its print presence. The magazine launched its own publishing imprint, MomentBooks, in partnership with Mandel Vilar Press this year. “People of all ages still love the feeling of holding a magazine in their hands,” said Moment editor-in-chief and CEO Nadine Epstein. “And studies have shown that reading the printed word on paper is critical to information retention.”
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BET Networks, a part of Viacom, is planning to launch a streaming-video service, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The service, to be called BET+, is set to start up this fall. It will feature content from Tyler Perry Studios as well as programming from MTV, Comedy Central and VH1, all of which are also owned by Viacom. Perry, who already has a five-year deal with Viacom, will also be a financial stakeholder in BET+. While pricing for the service has not been set, Viacom executives say they expect it to cost more than the company’s Comedy Central Now service, which has a price tag of $3.99 a month. It will be available on Apple and Android phones, Amazon Fire, Roku and AppleTV.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which has roots going back to 1786, is going out of business, the paper’s owners, Block Communications, announced on Jan. 7... GQ editor Will Welch is stepping down to take on a new Paris-based role with the musician Pharrell, who is also men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton... Semafor says it has raised $30 million on a $330 million valuation, following its first profitable year. 
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
