• Matthew Keys / The Desk: Trump withdraws the nomination of Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III to head USAGM, naming him instead to serve as US ambassador to South Africa

• Matthew Keys / The Desk: Court docs: a federal judge has ordered USAGM to restore operational grants to RFE/RL, after the outlet sued to stop the blocking of funds allocated by Congress

• Deadline: No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham says co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed after being beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by soldiers

• Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen: YouTube made up 11.6% of all US TV use, the most of among media providers; viewers over age 50, accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV

• Ruth Michaelson / The Guardian: A prosecutor in Turkey remands eight journalists to custody, reversing a decision to release them after they were arrested for covering anti-government protests

• Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: How the AP is managing to cover the White House while it awaits a decision on its ban: reliance on pool reports and dependence on foreign AP correspondents

• Blake Brittain / Reuters: Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude

• Anna Washenko / Engadget: Game Informer, closed by GameStop in 2024, returns with its full staff and new owner Gunzilla Games; EIC Matt Miller says it will stay editorially independent

• Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Megyn Kelly plans to launch podcast network MK Media, starting with shows hosted by Mark Halperin, columnist Maureen Callahan, and commentator Link Lauren

• Dade Hayes / Deadline: NBCUniversal will launch 40 FAST channels on LG smart TVs in an expanded partnership, spanning entertainment, news, sports, Spanish-language content, and more

• Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers names Gregory Hessinger as president, succeeding Carol Lombardini, who is stepping into an advisory role

• Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher are set to testify to Congress on March 26 at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's “Anti-American Airwaves” hearing

• 3½ hours ago Blake Brittain / Reuters: Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude

• 7 hours ago Anna Washenko / Engadget: Game Informer, closed by GameStop in 2024, returns with its full staff and new owner Gunzilla Games; EIC Matt Miller says it will stay editorially independent

• 8 hours ago Matthew Keys / The Desk: Trump withdraws the nomination of Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III to head USAGM, naming him instead to serve as US ambassador to South Africa

• 8 hours ago Dade Hayes / Deadline: NBCUniversal will launch 40 FAST channels on LG smart TVs in an expanded partnership, spanning entertainment, news, sports, Spanish-language content, and more

• 9 hours ago Matthew Keys / The Desk: Court docs: a federal judge has ordered USAGM to restore operational grants to RFE/RL, after the outlet sued to stop the blocking of funds allocated by Congress

• 9 hours ago Ruth Michaelson / The Guardian: A prosecutor in Turkey remands eight journalists to custody, reversing a decision to release them after they were arrested for covering anti-government protests

• 9 hours ago Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers names Gregory Hessinger as president, succeeding Carol Lombardini, who is stepping into an advisory role

• 10 hours ago Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Alex Konrad, who worked for 12 years at Forbes covering startups and broader tech stories, launches Upstarts Media on Substack, about the startup ecosystem

• 11 hours ago Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: How the AP is managing to cover the White House while it awaits a decision on its ban: reliance on pool reports and dependence on foreign AP correspondents

• 12 hours ago Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen: YouTube made up 11.6% of all US TV use, the most of among media providers; viewers over age 50, accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV

• 13 hours ago Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Megyn Kelly plans to launch podcast network MK Media, starting with shows hosted by Mark Halperin, columnist Maureen Callahan, and commentator Link Lauren

• 14 hours ago Reuters: India's finance minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital advertisements, easing costs for US tech giants, as a way of soothing US trade concerns

• 15 hours ago Mark Sweney / The Guardian: The UK CMA says Ticketmaster may have broken consumer protection law in how it sold 900K+ Oasis tickets in 2024 and told it to change how it gives pricing info

• 15 hours ago Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness; Synthesia was valued at $2.1B in January 2025

• 15 hours ago Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: Apple Music is opening its catalog to DJs by integrating with popular DJ software and hardware platforms including Algoriddim's djay Pro and AlphaTheta

• 16 hours ago Ian Youngs / BBC: Barb: Netflix's Adolescence becomes the first streaming show to top the UK's weekly TV ratings, with the first episode drawing 6.45M viewers in its debut week

• 16 hours ago Deadline: No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham says co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed after being beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by soldiers

• 16 hours ago Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher are set to testify to Congress on March 26 at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's “Anti-American Airwaves” hearing