Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the Senate antitrust subcommittee, will hold a “spotlight hearing” on Wednesday on Paramount‘s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
Booker also has invited Paramount CEO David Ellison to testify, follow up on previous letters asking him to appear.
A “spotlight hearing” is not an official hearing on the Senate Judiciary schedule, but rather are typically held by one or more members of a party to focus on a particular issue. Last month, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA) held a spotlight hearing in Los Angeles on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Per Booker’s office, those scheduled to appear at Wednesday’s hearing include David Borenstein, this year’s documentary feature winner for Mr. Nobody Against Putin; Michael Isaac, director of legal services at the Writers Guild of America East; attorney Katie Phang; and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, co-founder and
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