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11:15 AM 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 …
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.”
Discussion: IndieWire, The Wrap and Deadline
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
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.
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.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works, unless creators opt out, after a News Media Association-led campaign  —  The UK Government has withdrawn its support for plans to make it easier for AI companies to steal copyright content.
Discussion: Reuters, UKTN and BBC
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.
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  —  Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
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  —  Netflix is inviting fans back into the supernatural world of “Stranger Things” with limited theatrical screenings …
 
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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
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
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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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: David Zaslav is set to receive at least $550M in compensation related to the Paramount-WBD deal, including $517.2M in equity in the combined company
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in collaboration with Kylie Jenner

New York Times:
Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers

David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers
 
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