Paramount Nears $150M Deal for "The Free Press” & Sora Takes Over the Internet

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

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Episode 685: Neal and Toby discuss the massive Paramount deal where they look to acquire Barry Weiss’s “Free Press” for $150 million as they rework CBS News. Next up, a look at the latest jobs data amidst the government shutdown and Sora 2 is officially live. Then why are meals now smaller sizes and a look at the week ahead. Spend $250 on your first campaign on LinkedIn Ads and get a free $250 credit for the next one. Check out https://www.linkedIn.com/mbd for more. Get your MBD live show tickets here! https://www.tinyurl.com/MBD-HOLIDAY Vote for MBD in the Signal Awards! Best Daily Podcast: http://bit.ly/3W4e5ik Best Commute Podcast: https://bit.ly/4pxZidv Best Business Podcast: https://bit.ly/3IE7lEP Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best B2B marketing gets wasted on the wrong people.
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0:36.4	Good morning, Brew Daily Show.
0:39.1	I'm Neil Fryman.
0:40.0	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:40.8	Today is Sora the end of social media as we know it.
0:44.1	Then Friday came and went without a jobs report.
0:46.4	So what the heck is going on in the labor market?
0:48.8	It's Monday, October 6th.
0:50.5	Let's ride.
0:55.0	Good morning and welcome back to the week. A big week for people who spent 50 years in a dark lab researching a single topic.
1:03.0	The Nobel Prizes are going to be announced starting today, beginning with the Medicine Prize this morning, followed by physics on Tuesday, chemistry, literature, then the Nobel Peace Prize
1:12.0	on Friday. As for economists, they have to wait until next Monday to find out who will take
1:16.6	home the prestigious award in their field. So some quick history, the first Nobel prizes were
1:21.3	presented in 1901, and they were awarded in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, and peace. And it
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