Mediagazer: A look at all the ways Trump targeted media in his first 100 days, including banning AP from White House events, FCC investigations, and defunding USAGM (Axios)

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Sources: the Paramount board has outlined acceptable financial terms for a potential settlement with President Trump ahead of mediation, set to begin April 30 — Paramount's interest in settling has dismayed CBS's news division. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues the Trump administration, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of its board on April 28 — The media organization said that the White House emailed three of the company's five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated.

Minho Kim / New York Times:

A federal judge orders the Trump administration to pay Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty $12M for its April funding, which USAGM has withheld — The news organization relies almost exclusively on congressional funding, which the Trump administration has held up for weeks.

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Jake Kanter / Deadline:

Christiane Amanpour joins UK audio company Global to launch original podcasts; she will continue in her role as CNN's chief international anchor — Christiane Amanpour, the respected CNN anchor, is joining UK audio company Global to launch a number of original podcasts.

Discussion: Global and The Guardian

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

Source: the Los Angeles Times had a roughly $50M loss in 2024, following a $30M loss in 2023, and has lost about 25,000 paid subscribers since September 2024 — The publisher has lost ad spend from Netflix, as well as 25,000 subscribers, in recent months — Last week, for the first time since …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Stagwell, a publicly-traded ad holding group, plans to host a new NewsFronts event on October 16 to highlight ad opportunities around news content — Stagwell, a publicly-traded ad holding group, will host a new “NewsFronts” event this fall that will highlight advertising opportunities around news content …

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Axios:

A look at all the ways Trump targeted media in his first 100 days, including banning AP from White House events, FCC investigations, and defunding USAGM — News that Attorney General Pam Bondi is resuming the practice of trying to seize reporters' phone records to smoke out leakers is the latest …

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Financial Times:

The US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster may set the tone for how the Trump administration approaches competition policy — Rivals and competition experts fear the White House will not pursue its predecessor's antitrust case against the events giant

Discussion: Mirror and @pinemikey.bsky.social

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:

SAG-AFTRA creates a digital creator committee to develop industry standards and hopes to introduce contracts covering non-branded influencer content — The group is expected to provide “guidance and leadership” as the union attempts to break into covering original work and not just branded content.

Discussion: Vogue Business, Inside Radio, Tubefilter and Glossy

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:

Memo: Apple names Ole Obermann and Rachel Newman as new Apple Music co-heads, reporting to VP Oliver Schusser; Obermann previously led TikTok's music strategy — In February, MBW broke the news that Ole Obermann was leaving his role as Global Head of Music Business Development at ByteDance after five and a half years.

Discussion: Billboard, Music Ally, Bloomberg, Digital Music News, MacRumors, The Hollywood Reporter and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

James Hale / Tubefilter:

Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50.3% of the watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16.3% — It's been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer …

Discussion: Dexerto, Music Ally and Digiday

Axios:

IAB: full-time US digital creator jobs grew from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5M in 2024; the internet-supported economy accounts for 18% of US GDP, up from 2% in 2008 — The number of people with full-time equivalent jobs as digital creators in the U.S. has jumped from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5 million in 2024, according to a new report.

Discussion: TVNewsCheck and @michaelmartinez.co