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1:50 AM ET, April 9, 2026

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news  —  Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Jeff Shell steps down as Paramount president and board member; a law firm report appears to clear him of claims that he shared confidential information  —  Back in April 2023, the exec lost his job as NBCUniversal CEO amidst allegations of inappropriate conduct with a female CNBC reporter.
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Paramount launches Global Publishing, a new imprint tasked with developing original IP and content based on existing franchises like Star Trek and Yellowstone  —  The unit, which is led by Amy Jarashow and will initially launch in the U.S. and Canada, will develop content inspired …
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Court docs: California's DOJ warned Nexstar executives that the state's attorneys were scrutinizing Nexstar's Tegna bid more than a week before the deal closed  —  Attorneys with the State of California warned executives at Nexstar Media Group that their office was scrutinizing …
Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
US HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is launching a podcast, billing it as a new way to expose “corruption” and “lies” making Americans sick  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases  —  Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Harvey Levin about TMZ adding resources to cover politics, including Congress, being “sometimes fun and sometimes intensely serious”, and more  —  It took a few years for Hollywood's love-to-be-hated gossip hound to find his place within Murdoch's Fox empire.
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Reuters:
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action  —  Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday …
Lachlan Cartwright / Breaker:
Sources: CBS News has invited Pete Hegseth to sit at its WHCD table; Fox News plans to host Tulsi Gabbard and Sean Duffy, and NY Post will host Scott Bessent  —  New Netflix Book; Talese's Rare Read; Breaker Barometer … The New York Times and the Times Guild have finally put one foot forward today …
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Le Monde says it has seen a “significant amount of new revenue”, including via subscriptions, after licensing content to OpenAI, Perplexity, and Meta  —  Boss of French newsbrand says deals with OpenAI, Perplexity and Meta are paying off.  —  Publishers should be signing AI licensing deals …
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
WSJ's head of video Maral Usefi explains its strategy focusing on original journalism, breaking news, explainers, live video, franchises, and IP-based projects
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X is rolling out worldwide automatic post translation powered by xAI's Grok models, and updates its iOS image editor to add tools like drawing and blurring
Gemma Peplow / Sky News:
Email: a BBC review found that including a racial slur shouted by a Tourette's campaigner during the BAFTAs broadcast was a breach of its editorial standards
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Around 150 ProPublica Guild members announce a 24-hour strike beginning on Wednesday, seeking protections around the use of AI, layoff protections, and more
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CNN defends the authenticity of an Iranian “victory” statement, saying it came from “official Iranian spokespeople”, after criticism from Trump and Brendan Carr
 

 
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40%

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue
 
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