📺 WWL's and WGNO's parent companies are merging. Employees at the TV stations are bracing for changes and possible layoffs. (The Times-Picayune🔒)

• Catch up on the mega-merger between Nexstar and Tegna.

📜 UNO is dropping or consolidating several degree programs as part of its transition to LSU New Orleans. (Press release)

🚘 Hyundai teased its first pickup truck concept, saying it will be built in the U.S. using steel from its newly announced Louisiana plant. (Axios)

🐾 Immigrants arrested during the federal crackdown in New Orleans left behind their pets. Rescue groups are scrambling to find them homes. (New York Times gift link)

🍼 Manning Family Children's Hospital broke ground recently on a new NICU that will nearly double its capacity for caring for critically ill newborns. (Renderings)

• Louisiana has the second-highest preterm birth rate in the country.