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Axios:
A look at all the ways Trump targeted media in his first 100 days, including banning AP from White House events, FCC investigations, and defunding USAGM — News that Attorney General Pam Bondi is resuming the practice of trying to seize reporters' phone records to smoke out leakers is the latest …
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PBS CEO Paula Kerger says she is “hopeful” more Republicans will back the public broadcaster, and PBS would defend “vigorously” if someone went after its board
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues the Trump administration, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of its board on April 28
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New York Times:
Sources: the Paramount board has outlined acceptable financial terms for a potential settlement with President Trump ahead of mediation, set to begin April 30 — Paramount's interest in settling has dismayed CBS's news division. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says CBS and 60 Minutes admitted “to this crime” of deceptively editing a Harris interview, and he will sue the NYT for saying his CBS suit is baseless — President's comments come as his lawyers and Paramount Global's legal team are reportedly set to begin mediation in his $20 billion lawsuit
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Christiane Amanpour joins UK audio company Global to launch original podcasts; she will continue in her role as CNN's chief international anchor — Christiane Amanpour, the respected CNN anchor, is joining UK audio company Global to launch a number of original podcasts.
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Agence France-Presse:
A Turkish court hands Swedish journalist Joakim Medin an 11-month suspended sentence for insulting the president, but he remains in jail on terrorism charges — Joakim Medin given suspended sentence over photos on his articles, but remains in jail awaiting trial on terror charge
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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Google introduces channel-level reporting in Performance Max, providing ad campaign metrics broken down by ad format and what Google property it runs on — Advertisers can see how how campaigns perform across Search, YouTube, Gmail, and others — Google is cracking open the black box …
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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA creates a digital creator committee to develop industry standards and hopes to introduce contracts covering non-branded influencer content — The group is expected to provide “guidance and leadership” as the union attempts to break into covering original work and not just branded content.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Stagwell, a publicly-traded ad holding group, plans to host a new NewsFronts event on October 16 to highlight ad opportunities around news content — Stagwell, a publicly-traded ad holding group, will host a new “NewsFronts” event this fall that will highlight advertising opportunities around news content …
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Financial Times:
The US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster may set the tone for how the Trump administration approaches competition policy — Rivals and competition experts fear the White House will not pursue its predecessor's antitrust case against the events giant
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Memo: Apple names Ole Obermann and Rachel Newman as new Apple Music co-heads, reporting to VP Oliver Schusser; Obermann previously led TikTok's music strategy — In February, MBW broke the news that Ole Obermann was leaving his role as Global Head of Music Business Development at ByteDance after five and a half years.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more — Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it's not replacing the Wikipedia community …
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Mark K. Miller / TVNewsCheck:
Sinclair names Jeff Blackburn, formerly SVP of global media and entertainment at Amazon, as CEO and chairman of the Tennis Channel — Save this article for later! Login or create a Free Member Profile to bookmark it. — Sinclair taps the former Amazon executive to lead the sports network.
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