Paramount completes $81bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

What the coverage shows

Most outlets frame the story as the closing of a major Paramount-Warner Bros. deal and the creation of a new company called Skydance. AP, Axios, Engadget and Forbes emphasize the size and industry impact, while CNBC and Ars Technica foreground the long, contested process; France 24 is the only one to mention a bidding war against Netflix and federal approval tied to a settlement with 12 states. NPR’s extract is the outlier, pairing the merger note with a separate midterms poll item.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.