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5:10 PM ET, March 23, 2026

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Vox Media approached media companies and investors in 2025 to explore selling its growing podcast business of 30+ shows, NYMag, or the whole company  —  The News  —  Last year, bankers for Vox Media approached media companies and investors with a series of offers.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Veteran VOA journalists sue Kari Lake and acting USAGM CEO Michael Rigas, alleging promotion of pro-Trump propaganda and violations of editorial independence  —  In the latest battle over the future of Voice of America, a fresh group of veteran Voice of America journalists …
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Primary Wave Music plans to acquire Kobalt, one of the world's largest independent music publishing companies, from Francisco Partners, creating a ~$7B company  —  Primary Wave Music has announced a “definitive” agreement to acquire Kobalt, one of the world's largest independent music publishing …
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Sky's SNL UK, hosted by Tina Fey in its debut episode, opens with a solid 226K viewers on Sky One, per BARB; reviewers were tentatively positive about the show  —  The first-ever edition of “Saturday Night Live U.K.,” which aired from 10 p.m. on pay TV channel Sky One, drew a solid 226,000 viewers.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Scott MacFarlane, who recently departed CBS News, says he is joining MeidasTouch as its chief Washington correspondent and will anchor a daily program  —  Scott MacFarlane, who recently departed CBS News, said on Monday that he's joining MeidasTouch Network, the digital media outlet that bills itself as a …
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Amazon MX Player rolls out Fatafat, a free, ad-supported, mobile-first platform offering serialized vertical videos, in India, as micro dramas gain momentum  —  Video  —  Amazon MX Player has launched a microdrama service, as a new report predicts huge growth for vertical video in India.
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Project Hail Mary opens to an estimated $80.5M in box office sales in the US and Canada and $60.4M internationally, marking its first box office hit  —  Sci-fi adventure starring Ryan Gosling opens with $80.5 million in the U.S. and Canada  —  A decade after it got into the movie business …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ABC could lose ~$50M in licensing costs to WBD and an estimated $35M in advertising revenue after abruptly pulling the new season of The Bachelorette  —  ‘Mormon Wives’ star Taylor Frankie Paul was picked to boost the reality franchise, a decision that blew up in ABC's face
Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
Gary Lineker's Goalhanger launches The Accelerator, a three-month creative business incubator giving digital creators up to £10K in investment and mentorship  —  The podcast production giant is set to give select digital creators £10,000 to scale up their careers and brand …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March
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NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children died on March 21 in a fire at her Minnesota home; Pierce, 37, covered Minnesota Wild for NHL.com for 10 years
Jamie Wareham / QueerAF:
Sources: PinkNews, which touts itself as the “largest LGBTQ+ led media brand”, is planning widespread redundancies and a move to a “reporter-free newsroom”
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
A US district court judge rules in favor of the NYT in its suit challenging rules that limited press access to the Pentagon, citing the First Amendment
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
 

 
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Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France

Aisha Down / The Guardian:
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race

John Jumper / @johnjumpersci:
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic
 
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