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1:30 PM ET, March 18, 2026

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David Bauder / Associated Press:
A US federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work  —  A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America's operations …
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those aged 18 to 49, or ~5.34M viewers  —  ABC and Hulu's telecast was off by about 9 percent from the 2025 awards.  —  The TV audience for the 2026 Oscars declined some …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Deezer reports a net income of €9M in 2025, its first profit since its 2007 founding, while revenue fell 1.4% YoY to €534M  —  Industry under threat from fraudsters uploading and repeatedly playing tracks created by AI to extract royalties  —  French streaming service Deezer …
Discussion: Billboard and Deezer Newsroom
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook  —  Meta on Wednesday launched a new program aimed at luring top creators from TikTok and YouTube to Facebook, offering guaranteed pay and boosted reach.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Meta Newsroom
Variety:
California awards $296M in tax credits for 16 TV shows, including animated and competition shows for the first time in the program's history  —  The doctors at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center will be getting an infusion of cash from the California Film Commission when they return for Season 3 of “The Pitt.”
Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
FilmLA: in H1 2025, Los Angeles soundstage occupancy averaged 62%, down from 63% in 2024 and a 35.4% drop from the 96% peak in 2016; shoot days fell 8% to 7,940  —  Los Angeles is the worldwide leader in available soundstage space, but plenty of it is going unused.
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy vows to grant the BBC's demand for a permanent charter, replacing the 10-year cycle, to protect it from “culture war” attacks  —  Minister says the change is needed to protect the corporation from repeated ‘culture war’ attacks
Brent Lang / Variety:
Director Coerte Voorhees says he is using AI to feature Val Kilmer in “a significant part” in an indie film, with the cooperation of the late actor's estate  —  Five years prior to his death in 2025, Val Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, in “As Deep as the Grave.”
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary, a $200M space movie fronted by Ryan Gosling, is primed to be its first original blockbuster, targeting a $63M to $65M opening  —  In “Project Hail Mary,” Ryan Gosling plays a scientist tasked with saving the planet from extinction.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
MS Now overhauls its lineup from morning through night, including Morning Joe returning to three hours from 6AM to 9AM, as it prepares for the 2026 US midterms  —  Stephanie Ruhle, Ali Velshi, Jacob Soboroff and Alicia Menendez get new shows, ‘Morning Joe’ cut to three hours …
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Norway's growing film industry, after it earned its first-ever Oscar, the Academy Award for best international feature, for the film Sentimental Value  —  How Scandinavia's “cinema underdogs” used innovation — and a lot of oil money — to build a film industry from scratch.
 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music
Danielle Broadway / Reuters:
Netflix will screen two episodes of an animated Stranger Things spinoff on April 18 in 34 AMC theaters and two others before an April 23 release on the platform
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Richard Mauer, who covered suicide and alcoholism among rural Alaskans, the Exxon Valdez spill, political corruption in Alaska, and more, died on Feb. 23 at 76
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
NBC News partners with Joanna Stern to add tech coverage from her venture, New Things, across NBC platforms, and names her chief tech analyst
Financial Times:
Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith agrees to buy the entire 26.9% stake in The Economist Group held by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, sources say for ~£300M
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
A profile of Wired's top editor, Katie Drummond, who created a politics team that landed major scoops and says Wired added 200K+ new paid subs in the past year
 

 
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading

Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio
 
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