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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction — The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump …
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New York Times:
Sources: the White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR, PBS, and others — Trump administration officials want legislators to rescind $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some support for public media.
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Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
How David Zaslav became an “accidental mogul” who is navigating WBD out of its cultural, generational, and technological obsolescence during the Trump era — In a declining industry, the aspiring mogul has defied the odds — for now — based on an unlikely set of skills.
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Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
NY Mag: the Trump team pointed to Amazon's $40M deal for a Melania documentary and floated a Don Jr. outdoors show as a way for WBD to curry favor with Trump — Michael Wolff relayed the “reported message” in a Monday New York magazine profile of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
After CBS aired two 60 Minutes segments, Trump calls on CBS to lose its license and asks FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment” — Donald Trump again lashed out at 60 Minutes, this time angry over two segments the newsmagazine ran on Ukraine and Greenland.
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Nearly every movie released by a major studio in the past year based on an original script or a little-known book has been a box office disappointment — New movies based on fresh ideas are fizzling at the box office — LOS ANGELES—When director Christopher Landon introduced his new thriller …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
A retrial of Sarah Palin's case against the New York Times begins, after a judge's misstep in the initial suit in 2022 opened the door to a retrial — As another New York City institution once said, it's deja vu all over again for The New York Times and former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Associated Press:
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week — Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Jim Spanfeller says Quartz was in “dire” shape when G/O Media bought it in 2022 and defends its sale to Redbrick, which plans to integrate Quartz with Paved — After sale of Quartz to software firm, co-founder Zach Seward called it a “zombie brand”.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Interviews with Bloomberg executives on preparing for over a year for Trump's trade war, CNBC picking up Walter Bloomberg's X tariff pause post, and more — It's Michael, not Walter, thank you. — “If anyone didn't know that Walter Bloomberg is not associated with Bloomberg …
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J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
Alamo Drafthouse opts out of Meta's Movie Mate, which offers viewers interactive content via Instagram DMs during screenings, starting with the M3GAN rerelease — Though the theater chain will host showtimes nationwide for the April 30 rerelease of Blumhouse's killer doll thriller “M3GAN …
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New York Times:
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp — The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
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