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4:10 AM ET, April 15, 2025

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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 …
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.
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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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.
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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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
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 …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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 …
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 …
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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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple rebrands Search Ads as Apple Ads, after long-term rumors it is exploring expanding advertising from the App Store to other apps like Apple Maps
Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Greg Gutfeld will host a Fox Nation game show where contestants who are isolated for three months guess what really happened during Trump's second term
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
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
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek”
New York Times:
Current and former editors discuss whether Vanity Fair's EIC remains an appealing and fun job given the magazine industry's decline and a loss of lavish perks
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Twelve-year-old French policy title Contexte, which had €10.7M in 2024 revenue, plans to launch an EU-focused English-language edition to rival Politico in May
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