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5:35 PM ET, March 20, 2026

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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Eight states ask a district court judge for a temporary restraining order to stop the Nexstar-Tegna merger, after Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved the deal  —  Eight states asked a U.S. judge on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the $3.5 billion merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna.
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar says it has closed its Tegna acquisition after the DOJ and FCC approved it; CEO Perry Sook says Nexstar is grateful to Trump and the FCC's Brendan Carr
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The FCC approves the sale of certain local broadcast TV stations from Tegna to Nexstar, granting a waiver from a cap limiting how many stations can be owned
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Eight US states, including CA, CO, and NY, sue to block Nexstar's proposed $3.54B merger with Tegna on antitrust grounds; DirecTV files a separate suit
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a memo, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce the closure of CBS News Radio on May 22 and attendant layoffs; CBS News Radio was founded in 1927  —  CBS News Radio, with origins that trace back to the founding of the network nearly a century ago, will be shut down on May 22.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a memo to CBS News staff, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce layoffs; source: cuts will affect about 6% of staff, or around 60 to 70 employees  —  CBS News announced a new round of layoffs on Friday, the latest for the news division under the network's new parent Paramount Skydance.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January  —  We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
In an interview, Jonah Peretti discusses using subscriptions to AI products, events, the sale of some of BuzzFeed's assets, or a joint venture to save BuzzFeed  —  Jonah Peretti, the founder of BuzzFeed, created a viral hitmaker for the millennial generation.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more  —  Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web.
New York Times:
A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0”  —  A review of the betting market's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
Scott Nover / @scottnover:
A district court judge rules in favor of the NYT in its suit challenging rules that limited press access to the Pentagon, citing the First and Fifth amendments  —  BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes: [image]
Discussion: Washington Post, Deadline and WTOP News
Raquel Calhoun / The Wrap:
Jim Acosta, actor Noah Wyle, US Sen. Adam Schiff, and others push for a federal film and TV tax credit; Acosta pitches an independent journalism credit  —  Prohibitively so," the “Pitt” star says alongside Matthew Loeb, Jim Acosta and Sen. Adam Schiff  —  Noah Wyle, IATSE chief Matthew Loeb …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A study testing four AI chatbots on 2,267 news stories in English and French: ChatGPT credited news outlets 1% of the time, Gemini 6%, Grok 7%, and Claude 16%  —  “ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom.”
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4  —  Roblox Corp. will take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games as part of a major overhaul of its advertising policies.
Discussion: Reuters and Blockonomi
Matt Grobar / Deadline:
Warner Music Group and Netflix strike a multiyear first-look deal for documentaries about WMG artists and songwriters; WMG partners with Unigram for production  —  Unigram, run by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will serve as the production arm for WMG's longform programming …
 
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Bron Maher / A Media Operator:
The UK's Observer offers a new round of buyouts almost one year after its acquisition by Tortoise Media; ~33% of staff reportedly took the buyout offers in 2025
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Hachette cancels the US release of the novel Shy Girl and is discontinuing its UK edition after readers claimed the author relied heavily on AI to write it
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks
 

 
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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable”

Wired:
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort
 
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