Mediagazer: Study: from 2019 to 2024, California's animation employment fell ~5%, while New York's, British Columbia's, and Ontario's grew 18%+, ~72%, and ~13% respectively (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

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NPR says President Trump's EO is an affront to the First Amendment rights of NPR and that it will challenge the EO “using all means available” — NPR is unwavering in our commitment to integrity, editorial independence, and our mission to serve the American people in partnership with our NPR Member organizations.

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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 — WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) …

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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

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Minho Kim / New York Times:

An appeals court allows the Trump admin to continue withholding funds from federally funded newsrooms, temporarily reversing parts of two lower-court rulings — The outlets — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks — have had to scale back their news programming.

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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.

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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:

At the adtech remedy hearing, Google says it's open to giving competitors access to real-time bidding data from its ad exchange AdX, but it rejects a breakup — The tech giant faces a Sept. 22 remedies trial over a partial monopoly in its adtech stack — At the landmark adtech remedy hearing today …

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The US DOJ tells a judge it will seek to force Google to divest its ad exchange and publisher ad server units and share real-time ad bidding data with rivals — Justice department asks judge to force Alphabet to sell its ad exchange and publisher server tech after trial victory

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Hayden Field / CNBC:
A US judge schedules the US government's remedies trial in the Google antitrust case regarding its advertising tech to begin on September 22

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Sean Burch / The Wrap:

The LA Times Guild says 14 of its members have been laid off, or 6% of its newsroom staff, the third round of newsroom layoffs at LAT in as many years — The latest round of cuts comes after dozens were laid off from the organization in March — The Los Angeles Times has been hit …

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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:

FuboTV reports Q1 revenue up 3.4% YoY to $416.3M, subscription revenue up 4.7% YoY to $391.4M, and 1.47M subscribers, down from 1.67M in Q4 2024; FUBO drops 17% — The sports-focused streamer earlier unveiled a deal to merge with Walt Disney's Hulu+ live TV business.

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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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:

Study: from 2019 to 2024, California's animation employment fell ~5%, while New York's, British Columbia's, and Ontario's grew 18%+, ~72%, and ~13% respectively — According to a new study from the Animation Guild and partner organizations, California's share of the highest-grossing animated …

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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:

US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search — Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen …

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