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1:00 AM ET, April 1, 2025

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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Newsmax shares jumped as much as 667% in their NYSE debut after raising $75M in its IPO  —  The stock traded at $62.27 each at 12:07 p.m. in New York, in a debut that saw shares repeatedly halted for volatility.  The company raised $75 million in the offering, selling 7.5 million shares for $10 apiece.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company  —  Reach CEO Jim Mullen is stepping down after six years with immediate effect.  —  Mullen will be succeeded as Reach CEO by Piers North, currently chief revenue officer.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers  —  France's antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology company asks …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC Sports hires Betsy Riley, an NBC Sports veteran who recently led some Amazon sports offerings, to oversee production of its primetime Olympics program  —  Looks like NBC's new pop-culture primetime Olympics show is becoming permanent.  —  NBC Sports said Monday that it had lured Betsy Riley …
Discussion: Associated Press
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge”  —  The BBC faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” in the year to come, the corporation's Annual Plan setting out priorities for the next 12 months has said.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:   The BBC says it plans to open new talks with AI providers, invest in short-form platforms like TikTok, expand BBC Verify, and revamp news coverage on iPlayer
Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Center for Public Integrity has ceased publishing after 36 years, and is in talks to turn over its archives to the Project on Government Oversight  —  Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair.  The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.
J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
WBD's Max quietly launches a new logo with a monochrome color palette that evokes the longtime HBO branding, ditching its shiny blue UI  —  It's not HBO, it's Max — but the new standalone logo for Warner Bros. Discovery's streamer now certainly looks like HBO's at a glance.
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 36% of Americans say they hear a lot about Trump's relationship with the media, down from 72% in 2017; 71% follow Trump administration news closely  —  Far fewer are hearing about the administration's relationship with the media than was the case early in Trump's first term
 
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Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
ProPublica is using ads on a LED billboard truck to attract sources in the federal government as DOGE dismantles USAID and other agencies
Jessica Testa / New York Times:
TV news anchors exiled or extricated from their networks, like Joy Reid and Don Lemon, are finding success on Substack; Jim Acosta has 10K+ paid subscribers
Discussion: Newsbusters
Max Tani / Semafor:
An interview with California Governor Gavin Newsom on his new weekly podcast, backlash to his interviews with conservative figures, media strategies, and more
Nik Roseveare / Advanced Television:
Netflix makes Adolescence available to UK secondary schools via streamer Into Film+, following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's roundtable about the show
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Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Nokia and Amazon settle a long-running, global patent dispute over Amazon using Nokia's video tech in Prime Video and its devices, without disclosing the terms
The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the reasons behind Jen Salke's ouster at Amazon, including expensive flops, issues with James Bond producers, and a desire to streamline the org chart
Discussion: Adweek
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of self-help guru Mel Robbins, who has built an empire offering bite-size advice across books, podcasts, speaking engagements, and social media
Penelope Green / New York Times:
Reinaldo Herrera, contributing editor for Vanity Fair for 30+ years and husband of fashion designer Carolina Herrera, died on March 18, 2025, at 91
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: David Zaslav has started meeting with candidates who could replace film studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, whose contracts expire in 2026
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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