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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Jeff Bezos' opinion section changes contradict his October 2024 edict that WaPo won't endorse a presidential candidate because it can't be seen as taking a side  —  Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post's content, one of the world's richest …
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Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
Source: The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple wrote about the changes at its opinion section, but the piece was killed  —  Hello.  —  Welcome to a special edition of  —  Yesterday, at a hastily called meeting of the Opinions section of The Washington Post …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis says opinion section changes are “not about siding with any political party” but about “being crystal clear about what we stand for”
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Marty Baron condemns changes to WaPo's opinion section, says he is “disgusted” as Bezos is “betraying” WaPo's “longstanding principles” for commercial interests
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Source: over 40 newsroom employees at the Los Angeles Times have taken buyout offers from owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, including roughly 17 reporters  —  “We should put out a missing flyer in search of the man who bought our paper and made promises about its future,” one employee tells TheWrap
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The last remaining member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, Carla Hall, says she is taking a buyout, ending her 32-year tenure at the paper  —  After owner Patrick Soon-Shiong spiked the paper's Kamala Harris endorsement, a staff exodus resulted.  —  Carla Hall, the last remaining member …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WBD reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to $10B, ad revenue down 11% to $1.8B, and losses up 24% YoY to $494M, including $1.9B in charges and restructuring expenses  —  Like its rivals., Warner is navigating a difficult era for the media sector, one in which linear TV audiences, much easier to monetize …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD reports Q4 adjusted EBITDA for DTC, including streaming and pay-TV, of $409M, up from a $55M loss in Q4 2023, and 116.9M subscribers, up from 110.5M in Q3
Mark K. Miller / TVNewsCheck:
Nexstar Q4: revenue up 14.1% YoY to $1.49B, ad revenue up 29.6% to $758M driven by election year political advertising, net income of $229M; NXST jumps 11.1%  —  That resulted in net Income of $229 million, adjusted EBITDA of $628 million, net cash provided by operating activities of $411 million …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok is preparing to shut down Creator Marketplace, which connects brands with creators, and replacing it with TikTok One, which includes AI tools, on April 1  —  TikTok is preparing to sunset its creator marketplace in favor of a new, more expanded experience, the company has informed businesses and creators via email.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
BBC Chief Content Office Charlotte Moore is leaving to become Left Bank Pictures CEO and Sony Pictures TV's creative director of international production  —  Newswire … PMC  —  Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation.  © 2025 Deadline Hollywood, LLC.  All Rights Reserved.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Internal memo: Paramount is making changes to its DEI policies to conform to efforts by the Trump administration to eliminate diversity programs
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations  —  Meta apologized on Thursday and said it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood …
BBC:
The BBC apologizes and admits “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary on children in Gaza, after criticism that the narrator was a Hamas official's son  —  The BBC has apologised and admitted “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Pete Distad, previously named as the CEO of now-shuttered Venu Sports streaming service, will serve as CEO of Fox's recently announced DTC streaming service  —  Pete Distad has a new gig after the shutdown of sports-streaming joint venture Venu Sports.
Ben Johansen / Politico:
Reversing decades of precedent, the WHCA announces it will no longer coordinate shared coverage of President Trump amid an escalating dispute over press access  —  The move breaks from decades of cooperation between the White House and the journalists who cover the president.
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
A profile of London-based Mubi, a niche movie streaming service with 400 employees boosted by hit film The Substance, turning it into a real Hollywood player  —  Early on in “The Substance,” the body horror film starring Demi Moore that has been nominated for five Academy Awards …
 
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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
A Mississippi judge lifts an order requiring a newspaper to remove an editorial, after Clarksdale city officials voted to abandon their libel lawsuit
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Kirk Carapezza / GBH:
Student newspapers that increasingly rely on financial support from the institutions they cover face struggles for editorial independence, as ad sales drop
Sara Fischer / Axios:
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
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