{
  "id": 807234,
  "title": "Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Beneficiary of $21.7 Million Stock Sale as Paramount Merger Is Stuck on Hold",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-david-zaslav-beneficiary-of-21-7-million",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-13T21:21:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslav-sells-21-7-million-stock-1236834226/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, has now sold over $195 million worth of stock since the media company clinched a deal to be acquired by David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance earlier this year. Zaslav’s latest sale of 773,173 shares of WBD stock, for an aggregate market value of $21,655,292, was handled on […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Forbes",
        "title": "Paramount Seeks Settlement With 12 States Blocking Its Merger With Warner Bros.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/paramount-seeks-settlement-with-12-states-blocking-its-merger-with",
        "published": "2026-08-14T21:30:54.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}