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6:35 AM ET, March 23, 2026

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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 …
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
A group of 75+ civil rights advocates, former FCC officials, and academics urges FCC Chair Brendan Carr to withdraw his threats to broadcasters' licenses  —  Civil rights advocates are blasting Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr over threats to broadcasters …
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
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  —  A federal judge tossed parts of the Pentagon's restrictions on news outlets, saying they violated the First Amendment, in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times.
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.
Discussion: Podnews
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.
ESPN:
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  —  NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children were killed Saturday in a house fire in Minnesota, the league said Sunday.
Tandy Lau / Editor and Publisher:
A look at Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, and how it helps news organizations like Deep South Today  —  Lawyers for Reporters offers nationwide legal support for investigative and public-interest newsrooms
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The YouTube channel of Don Lemon, arrested in January over coverage of a Minnesota church protest, grew by ~200K to over 1.26M subscribers, generating ~$1M  —  A Minnesota church protest made the former anchor a star again — and a target for the Trump administration.  —  Don Lemon was working through some new material.
Discussion: ZeroHedge News, Newsbusters and TMZ.com
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; a source says the cuts will affect about 6% of staff, or around 60 to 70 employees
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”  —  PinkNews, which touts itself as the “world's largest and most influential LGBTQ+ led media brand” …
Newsmax:
A coalition including Newsmax, DirecTV, Communications Workers of America, and Free Press asks the FCC to immediately halt approval of the Nexstar-Tegna deal  —  A coalition that includes Newsmax, DirecTV, the Communications Workers of America, and several state cable and broadband associations asked …
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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
 
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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Calvin Tomkins, who, over six decades at the New Yorker, wrote dozens of profiles of artists like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely, has died at 100
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: Starz lays off 7% of staff, 10 months after separating from Lionsgate; it laid off 10% of staff in 2023
Washington Post:
President Trump signs an order granting an exclusive broadcast window for the Army-Navy football game, aired on CBS; media experts call the order likely illegal
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
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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
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve's Steam Machine, its new living room Linux PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model without a controller, and will go on sale starting June 29
 
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