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12:50 PM ET, March 30, 2026

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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Free Press reporter Gabe Kaminsky  —  Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Gabe Kaminsky will join the investigative unit, along with three CBS News producers
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Peter Alexander, who worked as NBC News' chief White House correspondent and co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Today show, leaves to join MS Now  —  Peter Alexander, one of the hardest working TV-news correspondents in the sector, will leave his longtime home at NBC News …
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Politico names Jonathan Greenberger as its editor-in-chief, effective May 1, succeeding co-founder John Harris; Greenberger joined Politico as EVP in 2024  —  Publisher names executive Jonathan Greenberger to succeed co-founder and longtime Editor in Chief John Harris
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
The NBC News-Joanna Stern deal offers a new model for independent journalists to grow audiences via institutional support while retaining editorial independence  —  Tech journalist Joanna Stern's partnership with NBC News points to a new model of editorial independence with institutional support
CNN:
The Israeli military says it suspended operational activities of a reserve battalion involved in detaining and assaulting a CNN team in the West Bank last week  —  The Israeli military's top general suspended all operational activities of a reserve battalion involved in the detention and assault …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Beehiiv plans to launch a podcasting program in the coming days and is privately courting podcasters on Substack and elsewhere as founding members  —  The News  —  Newsletter and creator startup Beehiiv is making a push into podcasting, and wants to peel off talent from Substack and Patreon.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some Disney executives learned about Sora's shutdown less than an hour before OpenAI's announcement; Disney was in talks about company-wide ChatGPT use  —  When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
Brendan Ruberry / Semafor:
How the New York Post's “runners”, who conduct boots-on-the-ground reporting across the city, are the backbone of its reporting, and may defy AI-driven cuts  —  Know More  —  Brendan's View  —  Notable  —  Early St. Patrick's Day morning, Reuven Fenton and I learned we'd be on pothole duty for the day.
Brent Lang / Variety:
Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weekend; the movie cost $200M to make  —  “Project Hail Mary” is officially Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever.  —  The space odyssey has grossed $300.8 million globally …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Mathias Döpfner met with UK politicians earlier this month, organized by global advisory PR firm FGS, as Axel Springer seeks to acquire the Telegraph  —  The Scoop  —  A successful media pressure campaign from the right torpedoed Jeff Zucker's attempt to buy the Telegraph.
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Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week  —  ‘Fruit Love Island’ averages over 10 million views for each of its episodes  —  A new viral dating show featuring sexy …
 
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Yasmin Rufo / BBC:
The BBC fires Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills following allegations about his personal conduct; Mills took over the breakfast show from Zoe Ball in January 2025
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian begins cross-publishing its Feast food newsletter, which has 100K+ subscribers, to Substack, as part of its Project Berger platform strategy
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A MoffettNathanson chart showed Netflix delivered 48 cents of revenue per hour viewed in 2025, below competitors, giving it room for its price hike this week
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Reuters:
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Jane Fonda led a Kennedy Center rally Friday with ~100 invited guests, including journalists Jim Acosta and Joy Reid, to protest free speech threats under Trump
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
A US judge grants DirecTV a temporary restraining order blocking the Nexstar-Tegna merger, finding DirecTV's position that it violates antitrust laws persuasive
Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted “Trump is winning”, citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others
 

 
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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

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks

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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