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1:55 PM ET, April 7, 2025

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Some experts weigh in on how President Trump's trade policy could impact the entertainment industry: ad budgets may shrink, Netflix could be shielded, and more  —  We asked experts how his trade policy will impact the entertainment business. … The adaptation of the popular video game opened …
Discussion: New York Times
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Several prominent conservatives in media notably came out against Trump's tariffs, with the most strident criticism coming from WSJ's editorial board  —  The Wall Street Journal editorial board, the Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro and some voices on Fox News have expressed concern about higher prices for Americans.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Amid the worst stock market sell-off since the 2020 pandemic, Fox News has projected a conspicuous calm and temporarily dropped its onscreen stock ticker
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
A Minecraft Movie collects $157M at the US box office in its opening weekend, the biggest domestic debut of 2025 and best in history for a video game adaptation  —  “A Minecraft Movie” leveled up at the box office, collecting a blockbuster $157 million in its opening weekend.
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Sources: Evan Gershkovich is not cooperating on WSJ's documentary and book about his imprisonment, and plans his own film and book, sparking tensions  —  It was a dramatic moment.  On Aug. 1, 2024, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stepped off a plane in Turkey to freedom, after 16 months spent in a Russian prison.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
RocaNews, which operates via Instagram, a gamified app, two daily newsletters, and YouTube, says it became profitable in October 2024 and has 2M regular readers  —  An American news start-up says it is proving Gen Z audiences will pay for news if it's done the right way.
Discussion: Forbes
Siyanda Mthethwa / Reuters:
Spotify's royalty payouts to South African performers grew 54% YoY in 2024 to $21M, while payouts to Nigerian artists more than doubled to $38M  —  Audio streaming giant Spotify's (SPOT.N) royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets …
Discussion: Music Ally, Semafor and RouteNote Blog
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Six Russian BBC journalists labeled “foreign agents” by Putin's regime speak on how it has impacted their lives, effectively banishing them from their homeland  —  Journalists now effectively banished say Kremlin's aim is to make them ‘toxic’ to anyone thinking of speaking to media
New York Times:
A majority of 300+ WaPo tech workers sign union cards and plan to formally request recognition, WaPo's first public union drive since Bezos' 2013 acquisition  —  With global markets again in free-fall, the president appeared to be losing support of business leaders, raising questions about his leverage in his trade fight.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M  —  Overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the different AI models you can use to make content?  A startup called Krea is looking …
more at Techmeme »
Charles Martin / AppleInsider:
The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding  —  The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google's news services, such as Apple News …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Telegraph
Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”  —  The U.K. government's AI copyright plans can't seem to please anyone.  —  LONDON — Leading AI companies OpenAI …
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Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
A judicial panel consolidates 12 copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft in New York, including cases from Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham, and the NYT
Gretel Kahn / Reuters Institute:
A look at the inroads made by China, Russia, and Turkey in Africa's information ecosystem and the void they will fill now that VOA has been silenced  —  Experts warn that the President's decision to shut down the US international broadcaster is leaving a void that authoritarian regimes are trying to fill
 
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by April 7, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Trump says he signed an executive order to keep TikTok running for 75 more days, as “the deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed”
 

 
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Source: OpenAI's share of revenue after the cost of running AI models for paying users has jumped to ~70% in October, up from ~52% at the end of 2024
 
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