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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 — The Trump administration plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting …
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Bloomberg:
Source: the Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut $9B+ in funding for PBS, NPR, and foreign aid in the current fiscal year — The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid …
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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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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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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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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.
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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Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: College GameDay host Rece Davis agreed to a new seven-year deal worth tens of millions to stay with ESPN, after being heavily pursued by Fox Sports — College football's pregame battle between ESPN's iconic “College GameDay” and Fox Sports' upstart “Big Noon Kickoff” …
Wall Street Journal:
Source: by 2030, Netflix aims to hit a $1T valuation, earn ~$9B in global ad sales, and double its $39B revenue and triple its $10B operating income from 2024 — Streaming service shares financial performance targets with staff that underscore its dominance
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@pkafka, @jtoonkel and Yahoo Finance, more at Techmeme »
Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
A profile of Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust denier who has become one of the most popular podcasters in the US and has tens of thousands of Substack subscribers — All of a sudden, everyone was coming for Darryl Cooper. — There were the newspaper columnists, the historians, the Jewish groups …
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@hearnimator, @elilake, @bernstein, @mattyglesias, @jawillick and Althouse
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Less than a week before A Minecraft Movie had a $160M+ opening weekend in the US and Canada, experts projected ~$65M, following four high profile misses in 2024 — A Minecraft Movie took in more than $500 million in 10 days. Nobody saw that coming — Good evening from New York …
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