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Associated Press:
President Trump signed an EO on May 1 instructing CPB and other agencies to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters' reporting  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters' reporting.
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger calls Trump's EO defunding the CPB “blatantly unlawful” and says PBS is exploring “all options” to allow the network to continue operating  —  PBS Chief Executive Paula Kerger calls President Trump's executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting “blatantly unlawful”: [image]
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
In response to Trump's EO, CPB CEO says CPB is “not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority” but a private nonprofit corporation  —  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting weighs in on President Trump's EO: “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority.” [image]
Discussion: @brianstelter and CNN
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Radio Free Asia is laying off most of its staff and shutting down many of its news broadcasts and streams due to a funding battle with the Trump administration  —  Radio Free Asia is laying off most of its staff and shutting down many of its news broadcasts and streams, amid a funding battle with the Trump administration.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
RSF's 2025 Press Freedom Index classifies media freedom globally as “difficult”, a first; economic score hits a record low due to ownership concentration, more  —  Global press freedom has hit an all-time low as measured in Reporters Without Borders' annual index.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Roku acquires Frndly TV, a provider of low-cost TV bundles delivered via streaming, for $185M, which includes $75M in performance-based holdbacks
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $26.65B, a new record but below $26.7B est.  —  The company overall topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter as investors awaited word on how President Trump's tariffs might hurt its business.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says “we would be very reluctant” to introduce a levy on streaming platforms, despite a parliamentary committee recommending it  —  The politician was speaking at the inaugural WAVES summit in Mumbai, where she championed U.K.-India film collaboration
Jack Herrera / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the resources NYT journalists used to cover the deportations through Panama in February, before the Trump Administration acknowledged the deportations  —  In order to remove migrants as quickly as possible, Trump has offshored his detention regime.  Journalists have struggled to cover their stories—and that is dangerous.
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Polygon staff, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games publication has laid them off, after Vox Media sold Polygon to publisher Valnet  —  One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up  —  The video game website Polygon has been sold to click-farm powerhouse Valnet …
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney's Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB+ of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group NullBulge
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ari Emanuel acquires Frieze, an art events and media company, from Endeavor, and will make Frieze a part of his unnamed global events and experiences company
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Peacock plans to debut on May 19 four new original series developed by digital creators who participated in an NBCUniversal accelerator program
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Saleah Blancaflor / Adweek:
Nielsen launches The Ad Supported Gauge, a quarterly report on how TV delivers advertising, says 72.4% of TV viewing was on ad-supported platforms in Q1 2025
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
LinkedIn says it will share ad revenue with creators for the first time, starting with 30 B2B creators, and says users now watch 36% more videos than a year ago
Washington Post:
Filing: Smartmatic says Fox News' “pivot” to amplify 2020 election fraud claims came after backlash from Trump and supporters for calling Arizona for Biden
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
The White House launches White House Wire, a website that looks similar to the Drudge Report, to promote pro-Trump news stories
 

 
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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

Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact
 
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