{
  "id": 12958661,
  "title": "David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/david-zaslav-gets-606-million-payout-from-paramount-warner-bros-merger",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-08T21:04:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/david-zaslav-exit-package-warner-bros-discovery-paramount-merger-1236905947/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "David Zaslav is out of a job. But he’s getting a prodigious sum of $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, the company he fused together and led for more than four years before it agreed to be acquired by David Ellison’s Paramount. Zaslav, who was Warner Bros. Discovery’s president and CEO, will receive […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "David Zaslav Scores $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/david-zaslav-scores-606-million-payout-from-paramount-warner-bros",
        "published": "2026-10-08T21:40:29.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}