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4:10 AM ET, April 27, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after loud sounds were heard in the hotel; a shooting suspect has been apprehended  —  Witnesses heard three loud bangs and saw a man carrying a rifle  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is safe after what he described …
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Clayton Davis / Variety:
President Trump calls for the White House Correspondents' Dinner to be rescheduled within 30 days after Saturday's dinner was disrupted by a shooting incident  —  President Donald Trump held a press conference at the White House about one hour after he and first lady Melania Trump …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Lionsgate's Michael opens with $97M domestically and $217M globally in its first weekend, the best start ever for a biopic and the second-biggest debut of 2026  —  There's a new box office king.  —  “Michael,” a biopic from Lionsgate about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Canadian holding company Tiny is looking to sell its stake in cinephile social platform Letterboxd, and has held talks with Versant and The Ankler  —  THE SCOOP  —  The controlling investor in Letterboxd, the social platform for movie lovers that's one of the few success stories …
Discussion: r/Letterboxd
Benjamin Wallace / New York Times:
A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg  —  Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation.  Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang …
Benjamin Toff / Pew Research Center:
Survey: 49% of US adults say they mostly get news because they happen to come across it, not by actively seeking it out, an increase from 39% in 2019  —  The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities.
Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
When newsroom leaders rolled out badly executed AI initiatives in Cleveland, at McClatchy outlets, and more, they increased distrust of the tech  —  A series of tumultuous generative artificial intelligence rollouts make clear that leaders need to listen before leaping
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: AG Todd Blanche, WHCA President Weijia Jiang, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, and Bari Weiss attended Paramount's dinner at the US Institute of Peace  —  The president spoke for nearly an hour at a Paramount-hosted event that raised questions about journalistic and regulatory conflicts of interest.
Leila Abboud / Financial Times:
Over 100 writers quit Grasset after rightwing billionaire Vincent Bolloré, owner of parent company Hachette, fired the Paris publisher's editor Olivier Nora  —  Writers flee Paris publishing house Grasset in protest at conservative owner Vincent Bolloré
Aidan McLaughlin / Vanity Fair:
A look at Tony Dokoupil's tenure, with tumbling ratings and his kid-glove questioning of the powerful, as he became the face of the Weiss revolution at CBS News  —  With tumbling ratings and savage reviews, the hospital-drama-handsome anchor has hit a rough patch after a meteoric rise at CBS.
Bloomberg:
Sources: iHeartMedia is in preliminary talks about a possible merger with SiriusXM; the combined company would have $12B+ in sales; IHRT closed up ~35%  —  IHeartMedia Inc. is holding talks about a possible combination with Sirius XM Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the discussions.
 
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Union representatives for media in the US, Philippines, and Greece share how their groups are trying to protect members from job changes due to AI
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Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers
Calista Wong / The Straits Times:
A Singapore man has been arrested and may face seven years in jail for allegedly leaking The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender after accessing a media server
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Barack Obama plans to appear May 5 on one of the last episodes of Stephen Colbert's Late Show, for Obama's first interview from the Obama Presidential Center
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Profile of comedian Tim Heidecker, who, as creative director, plans to turn Infowars into a “weird” comedy streaming network if a judge okays The Onion's offer
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sources: Axel Springer decided to forgo extensive due diligence before its £575M Telegraph takeover, an investment it may struggle to recoup
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029

Bloomberg:
President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives

Financial Times:
Sources: Meta explores a stock offering to raise tens of billions to fund AI capital expenditures, following Google's record $85B share deal; META drops 5%+
 
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