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5:45 AM ET, April 16, 2025

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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
The White House is eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a court ordered the administration to lift its restrictions on the AP  —  The White House announced Tuesday that it was eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a federal court ordered …
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April Rubin / Axios:
An Associated Press reporter was allowed into a White House event for the first time since the Trump administration banned AP's journalists  —  An Associated Press reporter was allowed into a White House event on Tuesday for the first time since the Trump administration banned the newsroom's journalists, multiple outlets reported.
Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Houston Landing, a nonprofit that launched in 2023 with $20M+ in philanthropic funding, says it is shutting down mid-May and laying off its 43 employees  —  The nonprofit startup struggled to identify a business model, an editorial strategy, and a large audience.
Financial Times:
CNN CEO Mark Thompson says the company plans to roll out a “suite” of digital subscription services, including at least one in 2025, to combat TV's decline  —  Media executive plans to launch a ‘suite’ of digital subscription services to arrest long-term decline in cable
Reuters:
A Russian court sentences four journalists to 5.5 years each in prison for creating content for the YouTube channel of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Network  —  Four Russian journalists were sentenced by a Moscow court to 5-1/2 years each in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty …
Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
UK filing: in 2023, following Elon Musk's acquisition, X had £69.1M in UK revenue, down 66.3% YoY, and its profit fell from £5.6M to £1.2M  —  Social media platform formerly known as Twitter says 66.3% revenue drop was down to fall in advertising income
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.
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
FOI documents: Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to YouTube that it would be exempt from a teen social media ban  —  Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to the global head of YouTube that the platform …
Jazz Tangcay / Variety:
FilmLA: greater LA film production fell 22.4% YoY in Q1 2025 to 5,295 shoot days, due to global cutbacks and CA's loss to rivals; the LA fires had little impact  —  After a promising end to 2024 where production had increased by 6.2%, on-production shoot days in the Greater Los Angeles area declined …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
WARC: global ad spend with newsbrands will be $32.3B in 2025, down 33.1% compared to 2019; ad spend on creator content will surpass professional media by 2026  —  Global advertising spend against news content is forecast to have fallen by a third in six years.
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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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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Marc Ecko returns to Complex, the outlet he founded in 2002 and left in 2016, as chief creative and innovation officer
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Bloomberg:
WBD says it decided not to sell Polish broadcaster TVN after a review; bidders reportedly included billionaire Michal Solowow and a Wirtualna Polska-led group
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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
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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
Wall Street Journal:
Source: by 2030, Netflix aims to reach a $1T valuation, earn ~$9B in global ad sales, double its $39B 2024 revenue, and triple its $10B 2024 operating income
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
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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

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities

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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