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5:00 PM ET, April 18, 2025

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge declines the AP challenge to the WH eliminating wire service pool slots, calling the policy “neutral” as it does not punish the AP specifically  —  A federal judge who ruled that the Trump White House's ban on the Associated Press was a violation …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Filing: AP is expected to have a spot in the White House print pool by Sunday, after the WH made wire reporters part of the regular rotation for print reporters  —  White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich argued that the administration has been complying with Judge Trevor McFadden's order …
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr:
[Thread] Columbia University is cutting ties with Sewell Chan, Columbia Journalism Review editor since June 2024; Betsy Morais will serve as interim director  —  Some news: Columbia University is cutting ties with Sewell Chan, who has been the editor of Columbia Journalism Review since last year
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ted Sarandos says “as the popularity of video podcasts grows, I suspect you'll see some of them find their way to Netflix”  —  “Is it premium?  Well, some of it is, and we believe we have the best monetization model on the planet for premium storytelling," co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on the earnings call.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training  —  Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that's specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ issues a travel advisory warning journalists traveling to the US to anticipate increased questioning by border agents regarding coverage of sensitive topics  —  A stated policy goal of the Trump administration is to significantly change U.S. travel and immigration policies.
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
After canceling Mythic Quest, Apple debuts an updated version of the finale to tie up loose ends and removes the original cut entirely from Apple TV+  —  A revised version of the episode is now streaming, meant to tie up the show's loose ends.  —  If you didn't catch Mythic Quest's series finale …
 
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An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher on the impact of Trump's proposed budget cuts; $100M of the $121M NPR receives annually goes to member stations
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Samsung TV Plus now has nearly 700 FAST channels in the US, more than any of the other major FAST platforms, and almost 100 exclusive channels
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Financial Times:
RedBird is drawing up plans to be the “sole-control owner of the Telegraph Media Group” to bring an end to the media group's protracted two-year sale
Bloomberg:
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools
 

 
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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

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

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
 
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