Q&A with Puck CEO Sarah Personette about the outlet's talent-first model, structure of the company, Air Mail acquisition, journalists as influencers, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Sources: The Athletic faces internal blowback after rushing to publicly defend reporter Dianna Russini while it had quietly launched a probe into her conduct (Natalie Korach/Status)
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Sources: CBS News EIC Bari Weiss and President Tom Cibrowski are at odds over the network's direction; source: Weiss tried to hire Noah Oppenheim, who declined (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
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Internal memo: CNN hires Chris Wiggins, who was chief data scientist at the NYT for more than a decade, for a newly created role as head of ML and AI science (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Paramount responds to Hollywood creatives' letter against its WBD acquisition, reiterating its commitment for 30+ theatrical feature films annually, and more (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes 2026's highest-grossing film so far, earning $629M globally, including $308M in North America; Project Hail Mary hits $500M (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
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TMZ officially launches its Washington, DC operations, dubbed TMZDC, with a three-person production team of Charlie Cotton, Jacob Wasserman, and Jakson Buhaj (TMZ.com)
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A US judge dismisses Trump's defamation suit against WSJ over an article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 letter for Epstein, but says Trump could re-file (Reuters)
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Bryan Cranston, Joaquin Phoenix, and 1,000+ writers, actors, and directors sign a letter opposing Paramount's WBD bid, warning it cuts jobs and audience choice (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
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The Economist plans to launch Economist Play, featuring shows hosted by Economist correspondents alongside interviews and debates, in its app this summer (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
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The Telegraph says its newsletter From the Editor, read by 850K+ people daily, has become its "biggest source" of new paying subscribers one year after launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
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Tucker Carlson partners with Skyhorse Publishing to launch Tucker Carlson Books, an imprint with a slate of titles by high-profile authors like Russell Brand (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
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Gulf countries like the UAE and Kuwait, as well as Iran and Israel, implement a sweeping media crackdown amid the war; the UAE arrested a journalist on March 17 (Kelsey Warner/Semafor)
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A look at the Aadam Jacobs Collection, which is adding its 10,000+ concert recordings to the Internet Archive; only one or two artists have requested takedowns (Christopher Weber/Associated Press)
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Analysis: NBC's annual sports spending may rise ~19% to ~$9.5B if it commits to a 50%+ price hike for NFL rights, as sports leagues leverage multi-outlet deals (Bloomberg)
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Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
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How Muslim women writers in Nigeria bypass religious censorship by posting erotic novel installments in WhatsApp groups and placing cliffhangers behind paywalls (New York Times)
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Most major book publishers lack clear rules on AI use, frustrating authors and readers and raising fears that AI-generated books will slip past editors (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
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A look at efforts to preserve local news archives, including work made for digital platforms first, and why some news leaders see archives as community gifts (Kristen Hare/Poynter)
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The challenges and advantages of covering Iran from abroad amid an internet blockade: being outside allows accountability reporting without fear of retribution (Yeganeh Torbati/New York Times)
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Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
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Survey: 64% of US adults read a print book in the past year, down from 72% in 2011; 31% read an e-book, vs. 17% in 2011, while 26% have listened to an audiobook (William Bishop/Pew Research Center)
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Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey drops his £79M libel lawsuit against the Financial Times, after FT said 15 women were willing to testify in court against him (Financial Times)
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A look at Ohio-based media company Block Communications, now a divided family business, which has decided to cease publishing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in May (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
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Memo: George Cheeks says Nickelodeon Animation Studios will operate as a label within CBS Studios, similar to BET Studios, consolidating TV production units (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
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Sources: Nexstar has begun directing stations to fill local newscasts with segments from Nexstar's NewsNation instead of national networks' content like NBC's (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
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Source: The Athletic is investigating reporter Dianna Russini's explanation about photos of her with NFL coach Mike Vrabel and "reviewing her coverage" (Oli Coleman/Page Six)
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Colette Watson, president of Canadian cable TV company Rogers Sports & Media, plans to retire in mid-May after 35 years with the company (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Sources: Disney has retained high-profile litigator Charles Harder to challenge an upcoming unauthorized biography of Bob Iger, by WSJ reporter Robbie Whelan (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
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